Old People We Know
A
My Grandfather
By Harry
My
Granddad is, about 76 years of age, I think. He is a nice man, but if you make
a point and its incorrect, he will give you a lecture on
it. At his tallest he was probably about 6ft 2in but now, as people do, he has
shrank to about 6ft. He used to be a mechanic so now he has a sore back most of
the time and that makes him walk a bit slower than normal. His hair is mostly
grey and he has gone a little thin on the top. His face is only a bit wrinkly.
He is mostly up to date with technology as he has a 42 inch flat-screen tv with
sky. My granddad is perfectly healthy and fairly active. My granddad is a nice,
kind man, and I love him.
Grandma
By Óisin
I have a grandma that is 85 years old the same age of the
queen of England. She lives inn Liverpool. She lives in a little apartment.
When I go to visit her she always make me or the family a cup of tea. So when
you offer to make her a cup of tea she sometimes says no. But when you drink
the cup of tea she would ask you again because sometimes she forgets. When we
all sit down or walk down the park or to the restaurant etc. she will always
talk about her childhood. When you walk down the shops just for looking she can
be really slow at walking so sometimes we have to give her a rest she is one of
the funniest people I have even listened to. Even though she is 85 she can
still drive around really well. She really likes her cakes and ice cream somehow
but when it’s really quiet she will watch TV or look out the window because
there are usually squirrels. She sometimes knit but very
rarely…
My
Grandad’s name is Harry [Real name Harold] His face is small with bushy
eyebrows and his head is bald with only two patches of grey crazy hair. And he
likes to wear fluffy hats. He is always grinning except for when he is sick,
and he is not very sick very often. He has sparkling blue eyes that always make
you want to smile. His skin is quite wrinkly but not pale. He wears long socks
and long warm jumpers because he is a farmer. He always has a stick with him. He
is always joking and laughing and tickling. He loves to watch tennis. He is
really special to me because he loves me. How I know he loves me is because he
is always giving me hugs and buying stuff for me and worrying about me. He always
has to get up early because he has to feed the cows and sheep.
By
Zoe
My Granddad
My dad’s dad is sixty four I
think. He loves to spoil us rotten and pays for my piano lessons. Johnathan
Wheeler but I call him Don Don because when I was little I couldn’t say his
name. He smokes herbs and smells of them too. He loves to come and watch us
singing and loves the way I have started to play piano because when he was
younger he played too. He bought me a really expensive piano I love it. When he
mows the lawn we love to go to his house and ask him to chase us on the ride on
lawn mower. He loves animals and owns the farm. He also loves to watch cricket
on the television and drink hot chocolate because he has never been a fan of
tea.
He has bright blue eyes that glitter when he is
excited he has red/brown/tanned skin and freckles on his hands. When he walks he stands up straight and can
walk fast when he wants to. He is fit and sometimes comes up the mountain with
us. He is bald at the top but has hair at the sides. He is special to me
because he is my only granddad left apart from my great granddad who is his dad
and very old. His laugh makes me feel safe. He always listens to what I have to
say. Sometimes I don’t get to see him because he has a house in Croatia and
goes there for a week or two.We went there once and he says he will bring me
there sometime. I love him so much and he loves me.
By Abhainn
My Granny’s hair is still
blonde but her eyes are a bit watery. Her face is a bit pale and her skin is
wrinkly. She is quite tall and she needs glasses to see. She isn’t surefooted
because she twisted her ankle badly a few months ago.
My Granny is very neat and
tidy and likes everything clean. She likes tea while doing the Irish Times
Crosswords. She is very good at Crosswords. She has a lot of difficulties with
gadgets. She is always interested about what I have done at school and she
always talks about how nice the parents and teachers from my school are.
My Granny is special to me
because she is so kind and caring and loving. I love my Granny lots and lots.
She always gets me out of trouble and I know she loves me to. By Jazmine
My Granny
My granny is
called May Codd. She has droopy eyes. Her face is very wrinkly. Her hair is
silver and white. She stands mostly straight. She walks quite slowly and sometimes
she slides her feet across the floor sometimes. Granny is a very funny. She can
always make laugh she likes a strong cup of tea. She is great fun all the time but
at Christmas she’s really great fun. She likes to dance to the ads in her
sitting room and she likes to make lasagne. I love my granny dearly if she is
not at home it is quiet and is not as much fun.
By John
MY GRANNY!!!
My granny was 92 when she died but when she was alive she
would bring eimhin and I up to Dublin for a day out. She could not drive so she
would bring us on the bus. She was a thin woman with really wrinkly skin and
her hands felt like they were soft but you knew they had been through a lot.
She wore rollers in her hair before going to bed so she had white ringlets
which always looked perfect and shiny. She had blue eyes. She was quite small
and her nose was just the right size and her ears were just the right size too.
She wore dentures because she had no teeth left. She only wore skirts
and cardigans she would never dream of wearing trousers.my granny was a kind
and loving woman she never would ever think of swearing she was always quite
horrified when any one would swear.my favourite thing about my granny was her
fantastic ice cream float which were really delicious. Another thing I remember
was she always had a hanky up her sleeve. She didn’t really know much about
phones or gadgets but she was interested in all the new things when she was
growing up they didn’t have any of the gadgets. I love my granny and I will
always remember the special times we had together.
By Sadhbh
My Granny
My
granny had curly white hair, and pretty grey – blue eyes. She was small and
stooped, and if she was still alive, I would probably be taller than her. She
did not have dentures or a walking stick, but she still had her own teeth. She
loved to cook and grow flowers and vegetables. She grew some fruit, but not a
lot. She was a good cook, so good that
she might have won Masterchef Ireland. She loved to read about cooking and
gardening as well. She had piles and piles of magazines about cooking and
gardening. She wore long skirts and skin tights, and also t – shirts with
buttons on them, covering her arms were thin jumpers that she wore un –
buttoned. She used to have a white cat called Buttons. Buttons died before I
was born, but I heard he was very loving if a bit deaf, like most white cats
are. Buttons always used to sleep on my granny’s lap. My granny called her cat
Buttons because she loves buttons. She loved to sew and embroider pillows and
things like that. I used to play games with my granny, such as Hair Salon. I
think that the most special thing about my granny was she was always there for
me. She was always the person that I could go to when I was sad or upset. I
love my granny so much.
My Great Aunt Nancy
My Great
Aunt Nancy has a very slim face with some wrinkles though I am not sure if she
has dentures. Her hair is a browny golden type that is very straight and sits
on her head. She is very slim but finds it difficult to go down the stairs at
times but otherwise walks very smoothly. Her eyes are a light green colour that
give a great twinkle when she smiles.
She has a great sense of humour and loves to
make jokes. Every time I see her sitting on the couch she is either making a
joke or reading the newspaper. She is very kind to me and always chatting about
life. But at times when she is chatting she says something I have no idea what
she is talking about but I just pretend I do anyway.
She has a
very good taste in clothing and is very stylish, she has lovely coats and
dresses which are very in fashion. We get along great and we love looking out
for deer and other wildlife which she has not yet seen and that I have. My
Great Aunt Nancy is very special to me because she is my only living relative
who is in her late stages and also that we get along so great.
By
Rhiannon
My granny is
ninety-two years old. She has light brown blotched skin. Her eyes have bags
under them. She has no dentures and has her own teeth. She is not stooped but
uses a walking stick. Her hair is black with grey in it.
She likes to
knit while drinking tea and watching television. When we visit her she loves to
show us how to knit and show us how to make collages with old paper. When you
sit on her favourite chair she hits you with her walking stick or gets angry
with you. She lives in an old age home. It has lots of things she likes. She
loves bingo and swimming. When she has visitors she makes a lot of jokes and
tells funny stories.
When she
goes on a walk she loves to come home and have a cup of tea. When we have
parties for her we do what she likes. We have chocolate cake and vanilla ice
cream and coffee cake with grapes and water melon, sweet melon, apples and
bananas.
I love her
because she’s kind and smart and fun to be with. She loves to play board games
with us and to swim in the sea and collect shells on the beach. She also loves
to have ice – cream with us.
We love to
play and laugh together. Even though she has trouble with gadgets and things
she’s a pretty cool Great Granny and I love her a lot.
By
Hayley
My Great Granny
My Great –Granny
had bright, shiny chocolate eyes. She had silver, grey hair and a wrinkled
face. Since there are 14 children including my siblings and cousins, she always
got our names wrong. Her eyes glittered
at birthdays and Christmas. She had broken veins on her hands. She was stooped
and had a walking stick. She shuffled around the place and loved going for
walks with her own children. She was always kind to us and loved to hear what
was going on in our lives. She always had bags under her eyes from tiredness
but that never mattered to any of us, for she was always happy and cheerful. She
loved hearing about my parents and Naoise, Anna and I because we live here in
Ireland. She also liked to hear about my cousins who live in the west of France
because she and the rest of the family live in the North of France. But I’m sad
to say I didn’t spend enough time with her. Our last summer was in 2013! But
I’m glad that I’m able to describe the best of her and she was sooo special to
me because she is a one of a kind great-grandmother and now I realise how much
she is special to me and how much she means to me.
By: Nele
MY NANA
My nana’s
name is Annie Snell. She has short brown hair. She has a few wrinkles. She has
a lot of freckles and she is very tanned. She wears glasses when she reads. She
likes to go around the golf course with our sheep dogs. She has a straight
posture and is very fit. She walks quite fast and during the summer. She likes
to go out and pick apples, blackberries and raspberries to make pies and tarts.
She is very good at baking and likes to relax. She sometimes helps out on the
farm when we are moving sheep. She reads lots of magazines and likes watching
the news. She likes her fashion and hair. She loves a cup of tea and some
biscuits. She usually goes into town to do her shopping and meets up with a few
of her friends. She has the same routine every week. She likes to visit family
a lot and sometimes stays at their houses and minds her grandchildren.
She is special to me because she loves me and minds me and cares for me. She is
the best nana ever and I love her lots.
By
Amy
My Nana Hilda
My nana
Hilda has a thin wrinkly face. Her eyes are pale and she has bags under her
eyes, not from lack of sleep but just from being old. She has all of her teeth.
Her hair is blonde but not bright blonde. She has a couple of grey hairs. When
my nana walks she leans forward a little bit. She can walk without support but
she walks slowly. She can’t work anything electronic and finds cleaning hard.
She has to call my mum to ask her how to work the television. My mum and I help
her hoover and clean the windows. My nana likes cakes and biscuits and she
drinks tea. She is very religious and goes out to church every Sunday and to
bible study on Tuesdays. She enjoys going to dinner with her brother Jack and
sister Gwen. She sometimes gets confused with her bills
and letters. She remembers all of our birthdays but sometimes calls us by
different names. My nana calls Adam Derek or Clive, me Cliona, Kayleigh or
Andrea, my mum Gwen and my dad David. She doesn’t forget anything else. She
gets sore hips and legs because she had a hip replaced. She always sits in the
same seat with the same blanket over her legs. She watches all the soaps on the
television and turns the volume up a bit. She has to wear a hearing aid because
she’s a bit deaf. She sometimes gives me a couple of euro for no reason at all.
She can sometimes be a bit rude but I know she doesn’t mean it. My nana is
special to me because she loves and cares for me. (She really knows my name but
she just gets confused) she gets upset often because she misses my granddad a
lot.
By Emma
My Nana Dolly
My Nana is
seventy five and she is as fit as fit can be. Her face is young looking but
wrinkly. Her eyes are a light brown colour and baggy. Her eyebrows are long and
dyed. Her hair is rusty brown and thinned. She wears her spectacles everyday
along with her minty white dentures. She walks tall and proud with a straight
posture. Her face is tanned and soft with a few sun spots here and there. She
is so skinny and pretty. She has small soft hands with plenty of bruises and
bumps with her rings on her finger. She loves to dance along to the gig that’s
on the radio. She loves to eat Jaffa cakes with a cup of tea. She goes to
Church every Sunday in her nicest clothes and goes to the grave yard to talk to
granddad and Uncle Pat too. My Nana and I have a very thick relationship. Word
searches are always on the go with my Nana. She loves to laugh and tell jokes.
My Nanny is the greatest woman for fashion and stylish clothes and she also
loves her hair rollers. Nana Dolly loves her 2 hour walks with her dog Sasha.
My Nanny has great difficulties with gadgets and electronics. She loves to
watch Mrs Browns Boys with her feet up at the fire and a blanket around her and
she’s ready to have a little snooze. She loves a bit of gossip. I love my Nanny
so so much and she always says the same to me and all her other 9
grandchildren. I think she is just amazing and wonderful and she is my idol and
I adore her.
My
Nana Mary
My nana has blonde hair and you would never see it
going grey she always dyes
it
on time. It is so shiny and silky. Her eyes are light blue. She wears glasses
and they’re
a lovely pink colour. Her skin is so soft. She is wrinkly though. She only has a few prominent
veins on her hand. She has lovely long nails and they are always painted a lovely
bright colour like pink or red. If she has no nail varnish on you know she has
nothing planned for the day. Her clothes are usually casual, jeans and a
top the tops are sometimes pink and sometimes blue to match her eyes and boots
with heels. She loves sitting in at 5 and 6 o’clock to watch the news and lying in bed
watching the 9 o’clock news. She is always busy. She always cooks a lovely
dinner on Sundays and invites all the family over its kind of like having a little
family reunion every weekend it is so fun because I sometimes take my
little cousins to the park down the road. My nana is great I love her and I
know she loves me. She is so special to me because she is always there when I
need her and when someone blames me for doing something I didn’t do she always
comforts me and believes me . I love my nana soooo much she is so important to
me.
By Kendra
My Nanny
My
nanny’s name is Kathleen Jordan. She has short blonde hair with curls and
always wears rollers going to bed. She goes to the hair dresser once a month
that’s what she looks forward to. My Nanny’s eyes are blue. Her eyelashes are
long and she has brown eyebrows. My Nanny always cleans her skin and looks
after herself. My Nanny’s eye sight isn’t the best so she has to wear glasses
when she is reading or looking at something small. My Nanny has dentures and
she always scares me when she has them in a glass of water beside her lamp at
night. My Nanny loves to read books about the royals in England in bed at
night. She also loves her routine and likes to know what she’s doing each day.
She also loves to gossip about the news and what’s going on around her. She
sometimes gets a bit confused and forgetful. My Nanny always gets my Grandad to
get the newspaper for her. Each night when I go into my Nanny and Grandad’s my
Nanny always has something for me to do with her phone or Walkman because she
is not very good at gadgets. My Nanny walks three times a day around Avondale
or to the graveyard, she is mostly very surefooted but she does trip now and
again. My Nanny can’t go a day without walking if she doesn’t walk she feels
like the day is wasted. My Nanny always keeps very fit. She does wear some
make-up but not too much. My Nanny is very special to me because I know she is
always there for me if I need to chat or anything , and she is very caring and generous
and thinks of others before herself that’s why I love my nanny and also that’s
why she is so special to me.
