General Chat

We moved around a lot when I was a child, so I never really knew my mum's brother or sister, or my cousins, and mum never really kept in touch with them, but my Gran used to cme and stay with us. When I asked mum why Aunt and uncle never came, she just said she didn't like them. I got to know them when my gran was taken ill. Gran had to go into hospital, and we knew, if she came out she wouldn't be allowed back in to her house in the state it was in!!(Gran was a hoarder!) Gran lived in the New Forest, so mum came over from France, my sister came over from Berkshire, and I caught a train every day for 2 weeks down to the house. My aunt and uncle and their broods didn't offer to help at all. We sorted, cleaned, polished, I took grans clothes home, washed and ironed them, brought them back, tidied the garden etc. Then we thought we'd had burglars!! Things were knocked over the TV was missing, etc. The locks were changed. 2 days layer aunt and uncle and partners turned up!! Why had the locks been changed? They'd been in looking for, amongst other things, the sovereigns they believed gran had, they'd taken old dolls and toys she had, Uncle had removed the TV he'd given her, Aunt had taken a fancy to grans handbag, and some of Grans clothes that I'd washed and ironed - and Uncle had taken possession of gran's pension book!! At this stage, no-one knew if gran would be returning to the house, so these two had decided to basically steal from their own mother!!! As it happened, gran went in to a nursing home, so mum, my sister and I then went down to clear the house - yet again, no help from Tweedle dee and Tweedle Dum - but they were there like vultures!! The matron of the nursing home had to take uncle to court to get the pension book - then he gave himself power of attorney! Aunt never gave gran back her handbag, which also contained gran's reading glasses!! They visited gran about 4 times the 4 years she was in the home before she died, and they postponed the funeral as they fancied a couple of days holiday, and Uncle set the tone by turning up for the funeral in a dirty football shirt and scruffy anorak!! They both snubbed my mum, and charged into the front pew with their (adult) children so mum had to sit 3 pews back! Actually, I'm not embarrassed by my family members - as far as I'm concerned, these two and their families are nothing to do with me. I'm so grateful I was never allowed to know them as a child. maggie

I am embarrassed and sickened by my dads side of the family, like his mum, brother and sister. Not because they are embarrising people, because they are sick, twisted and bitchy people. My dads mum (i wont call her nan) is probably the worst. If my Grandad was still around things would be different, they do not deserve to have his name, I dislike them so much i have thought about changing to my step-dads name, but why should i have to break ties from my grandads name and them not!!! xxx

Nope, my family are lovely. I'm the strange one but hey they love me anyway.

My mother in law & hubbys two brothers who live with her. The house is brown with smoke, the curtains are disintergrating, to keep out draughs they have a dirty stain ridden blanket up against the livingroom window, thus having to have light on all day. At our wedding & again at Daves 40th party, they were first in the que for the food and made pigs of themself. They always plead poverty, never send birthday cards to our kids, never phone to wish them happy birthday. ( we give to his mum birthday & christmas...mothers day ect) Yet they can afford to chain smoke all day, and go to bingo at least four times a week! Embarresed?.....makes me sick ! Elaine x

im not a snob (much) but i have family over from england at the moment 2 aunts and a cousin one aunty is really posh she looks like the queen, and the other has no teeth and dresses down even my nana said why doest she put her teeth im so ashamed of her my nana said of her own daughter so i was wondering who embaresses you are you all too scraed to tell