Top Ten Activities To Enjoy During The Summer Hols With Your Grandchildren
Its rapidly coming up to THAT time of year again – one week to the long summer break – and while that is a joy for some parents and families, for many it is a juggling act that can be very expensive; which is where grandparents are welcomed with open arms and take over the care and entertainment of youngsters for part of the hols, if not all.
» Read MoreGrandparents Blow Away Your Grandkid’s Post SATs Blues
virtualgranny’s teaching expert Denise Howe blows away any post SATs blues with some great ideas for fun holiday activities to engage your grandchildren, whilst still keeping those brain cells well oiled.
» Read MoreAre You Playing With Your Picassa?
Google Picassa that is, which is a completely free download from Google that lets you organise, edit and share your photos.
Now you may already be a whizz kid at photo manipulation, but if like me you just about manage to get by with the absolute basics of saving and sending photos, then Picassa is a Godsend, enabling you to manipulate pics create collages, videos which can be uploaded to You Tube with one simple click, the ability to create web albums to share with the grandchildren and much, much more.
» Read MoreAre Your Grandchildren’s Computer Games A Mystery To You?
They certainly are to me. From DS dalliances to hours of online interaction, the world of computer games has just passed me by.
Now, I may be preaching to the converted and you may well already be an online game aficionado, but just in case there are other dark age net game Dinosaurs like me, lurking around the virtualgranny site, I thought it might be useful for an expert to give us a quick waltz around this strange new world.
» Read MoreLearn To Paint With a TV Star.
With TV’s favourite artist Charles Evans, it doesn’t matter if you haven’t held a paintbrush since you were in infant’s school, because Charles` unique USP is that he can teach anybody – yes anybody to paint in just one day.
» Read More
Get Hooked on Cooking Seafood!
Yes, we all know that fish is good for us, but how many of us shy away when it comes to cooking anything other than the most basic of seafood recipes?
» Read MoreCul8R* Granny?
Are you in need of a few text tutorials to get you up to speed with your mobile messages? Do you still sit scratching your head trying to sort of your Skype connection?
What you need is a grandchild, or someone else’s to teach you a thing or two. In return you can give them some of your own gems of wisdom and practical experience.
Recycling Old CD`s
When CDs first came out (remember that?), we all thought they were practically indestructible. Not like records (whichwhichwhichwhich got scrascrascratched) or tapes (which tangled and snagged)…
» Read MoreRe-Design Your Style
Got yourself in to a style rut? You know how it happens, keeping track of adult children, grandkids and often very elderly parents needs, you suddenly look in the mirror and find that you’ve somehow lost yourself along the way.
» Read More