Gransnetter
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Gransnetter (plural Gransnetters)
- (Internet) A member of Gransnet, a London-based sister website to Mumsnet for users over 50 years old.
- 2012 June 17, Janet Street-Porter, “Fake Britain at the heart of Olympics”, in The Independent on Sunday, number 1,1163, London, page 13, column 4:
- Last week, she [Ann Widdecombe] took part in a live webchat on Gransnet and revealed she thinks she probably won’t be remembered politically “at all”. […] Ann emphatically told Gransnetters she still believes in the death penalty, still thinks there’s no place for women priests in the church, declares positive discrimination “an insult to women”, reckons virginity is “underrated” and states that Maggie Thatcher was a far greater prime minister than David Cameron will ever be.
- 2013, Gransnet Limited, “Introduction”, in The New Granny’s Survival Guide: Everything You Need to Know to Be the Best Gran, London: Vermilion, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, →ISBN, page 3:
- In fact we’ve worked out that, between them, gransnetters have 326,741* years’ experience in bringing up children, so they have had plenty of time to learn from their mistakes and accrue a fair bit of know-how along the way.
- 2013 September 21, Hilary Boyd, “The thoroughly modern gran”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 49,243, London, pages W1–W2:
- The book [The New Granny’s Survival Guide] itself adopts an admirably light touch as it guides us through the potential minefield that is modern grannying. Lots of humour and real-life contributions from Gransnetters and, thank goodness, no lecturing. […] For instance, how much help should you, as a granny, give? One Gransnetter writes: “My son-in-law is very capable, so I am not needed from a practical point of view. […]”
- 2017 October 25, “Half-term: 10 advantages and disadvantages of relatives’ childcare / What do you get out of the need for ‘granny childcare’?”, in Witney Gazette, Witney, Oxon: Newsquest, page 45, column 3:
- Not surprisingly, research by Gransnet has found that while one in six grandparents have taken early retirement or quit paid employment to help out with their children, 80 per cent of them say their sacrifice is worth it, […]. Here’s what some of the grandmas and grandads that use Gransnet forums say: […] Expectations or not being able to say no – Gransnet editor Lara Crisp explains: “Some Gransnetters volunteered or agreed to look after their first grandchild, then another arrived, then their other children had a couple, so they felt they couldn’t say no to help them out. […]”