(1) Cynics will tell you Camra’s membership know all about identity crises – once the rebels of the 1970s, they’re now mostly older dads and grandads – purists upholding Camra’s “cask only” creed as sacred.
(2) Like her bolder aunt Marine, the timid Maréchal-Le Pen complained that she suffered greatly from taunts at school that her grandad was a “fascist”.
(3) I first had stuffed vine leaves at my grandad's guesthouse in Southend, and deeply regret not pilfering his recipe before he passed away.
(4) Founded in 1982, Twenty Twenty is the company behind factual programmes such as The Choir, That'll Teach 'Em', Bad Lads Army, Brat Camp and current BBC2 show Grandad's Back in Business.
(5) My grandad used to deliver the milk and ladle it into people’s teapots.
(6) Grandad may have survived on the streets of east London as a boy thanks to the kindness of the Salvation Army but he was frankly clueless about Merseybeat.
(7) They provide a solution to the age-old dilemma of what to buy your grandad once his need for socks and whisky is truly sated and provide an easy gift fix for long-distance friends and family.
(8) There’s not a day that goes by where I don’t think about my cousin, my dad, my nan and grandad.
(9) My grandad used to walk me home from my countryside primary school, along the footpath that led to his council bungalow.
(10) My first day – you’d have thought a couple of school kids would have been dragged in by a dad or grandad.
(11) I always remember the startled look of the platitudinous young vicar who visited our house after my grandad died, when my mum said, "Don't come round here with your mumbo-jumbo.
(12) The way we’re taught it is, ‘well, our ancestors were there, and we always believe grandad and granny’.” This obviously won’t satisfy the sceptics.
(13) John Joe comes from a proud travelling family; Luke's grandad was Irish and ended up in England in unusual circumstances, on the lam to the UK after losing a prearranged fight to one of his fiance's brothers.
(14) Or, as they are in the French press, “le gang du papys” (the grandads’ gang).
(15) It read: "Girls, grannies, mums, dads, lads, grandads – everyone meet on Sneinton Dale tonight at 9 o'clock as we are all going to kick off …" Lowe a 39-month prison sentence.
(16) "He was a champion, my old great-grandad," Saunders says, grinning, "and you can still see that today.
(17) I remember that my grandad was just like a father to me and that he always used to take me along to training and pay my subs as a kid to the local teams in my town when he had to.
(18) However, I often borrow poetry books off my mum, and when I was younger, my grandma and grandad bought me a poetry anthology that first sparked my interest in poetry.
(19) Ellie Butler's grandad: 'The devastation is complete and utter' Read more Neal Gray said Tuesday’s verdicts were fantastic news.
(20) I sat my children down in November and asked if they'd like to spend Christmas Day with Granny, Grandad and Daddy; and celebrate another on New Year's Eve with me.
Granddad
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(1) In fact, even as he is readying Her for lock-down, he's simultaneously dipping in and out of the production for the Jackass spin-off, Bad Grandpa , starring Knoxville as a fake 86-year-old granddad with a huge capacity for giving offence.
(2) My granddad opened a restaurant in northern Italy in 1963, the year I was born.
(3) "In 2008 my nan, in 2009 Gavin, my brother [who was attacked on the street in east London], 2011 my granddad, 2012 my dad [Jimmy Defoe, who lost his battle with throat cancer] and my cousin Hannah [tragically electrocuted in a pool on holiday].
(4) That stems from my family, my mum, my nan, my granddad.
(5) Those for whom family isn’t mum and dad, but just mum or dad, nan and granddad, brother or sister, two mums or two dads, parents from differing ethnicities … can now see a little of themselves reflected back in Wearing’s celebratory sculpture.
(6) His father, Graham, had hoped Carr would be a footballer – after all, he'd been a footballer and manager, and his granddad had been a footballer, so there was a sense of inevitability.
(7) Spry little David is the last surviving grandson of John D. It was Granddad Rockefeller who famously declared competition a sin, and built one of the world's great fortunes.
(8) Go out and buy your depressed granddad a luxury automobile immediately.
(9) It was Granddad Rockefeller who warned his Bible class: "Every downfall is traceable directly or indirectly to the victim's good fellowship" – and solemnly advised them: "Don't be a good fellow."
(10) So my Great Granddad in only a Govan native can do, wrote a staunch letter again which had many a swear word in.
(11) Also, whilst manager of St Mirren, my Great Granddad was less than impressed with Sir Alex Ferguson's tactics and teams selection, so wrote him a articulate letter suggesting some of his wisdom.
(12) Photograph: Mark Joyce I first went for a reserve match against Norwich City in the mid-1980s with my granddad, dad and brother.
(13) He's humouring me briefly in a hotel to talk The Lone Ranger , which reunites the Pirates mob ( Johnny Depp and director Gore Verbinski) to reboot your granddad's favourite gunslinger.
(14) There is even an option for granddads (it's never too late): a Sherlock Holmes-style calabash e-pipe.
(15) I only saw her once – at my granddad’s funeral.
(16) I will also wear a white poppy to honour my granddad, who robustly refused to be driven, sheep-like, to the trenches in 1914, holding that if you gave a gun to a working man and told him to kill another working man, the best thing for either of them to do would be to unite and collectively turn the guns on the bloody fat cat bosses that caused the whole thing to start with.
(17) Even those pantomime granddad goths, Black Sabbath, got their first number one album after 46 years .
(18) Seeing them force this poor 900-year-old agent to undertake the gruelling MI6 physical trial is akin to watching your granddad wheezing about on his hands and knees, shakily trying to retrieve a Malteser that's rolled under the coffee table.
(19) In other words, an era as dismal as any other has, bizarrely, become a sort of jovial granddad.
(20) Sir Alex Ferguson My Granddad's brother(William) played with Sir Alex at Rangers.