Has
your Granny got SYLE - Could Your Granny Be Britain's Greatest?
Have you ever stopped to think about how many people in your entire
family owe their existence to just one person - a grandmother?
You might have enough relatives for a football team or even enough
to play a complete football match including coaches and subs and
if so, you can probably thank your grandparents for that.
Many a grandmother makes the backbone of the family - the one
who is Always ready to give her grandchildren a cuddle or treats,
the woman who makes the best cuppa and who doles out her time-honoured
wisdom in spades. To recognize the contribution of these very
special unsung heroines, our grandmothers, Genes Reunited is searching
for Britain's Greatest Granny - and she might be yours!
To find ten of Britain's Greatest Grannies, Genes Reunited is
scouring The nation for your nominations. If she is chosen by
our panel of judges, she could win a very special Christmas-inspired
luxury family-size hamper and will have the distinction of being
named 'Britain's Greatest Granny'. To nominate this lady, simply
visit www.genes-reunited.co.uk, follow the 'Greatest Granny' link
from the homepage and email a couple of paragraphs on why your
grandmother (who must be living in the UK) deserves to win. Or
why not tell the younger members in your family to nominate their
grandmother?
Stop and think for just a minute: what would have happened if
your Grandparents had never met? Certainly you wouldn't be reading
this now. You wouldn't be doing anything, because you wouldn't
exist! Imagine how many other people would be affected such as
your children, your parents, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts,
uncles. Go on; take the trouble to add it up. It's quite a few,
isn't it?
In Italy, grandmothers are honoured as the heads of the family
- we should take a leaf out of their book and place our marvelous
matriarchs on a pedestal. They constitute our roots, the keystone
for our family.
Maybe your gran has an amazing story to tell; perhaps during
the dark days of the Second World War she was battling on the
Home Front, or maybe she was fighting a similarly hard battle
to bring up kids when times were harder than now.
Or is it that your Granny's taken to the modern-day world with
aplomb and gusto, texting and emailing like a demon, and hitting
the slopes with her grandchildren at Christmas.
Or maybe it's because she can cook scones that would make Gordon
Ramsey weep, or knits faster than a jet plane, or maybe it's simply
because she is the reason that so many people are here today;
whatever the reason, we want to hear it.
Britain's Greatest Granny award is open to any living grandmother
in the UK. It's up to you to tell us what it is about your grandma
that qualifies her to be named as Britain's Greatest.
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