Words of wisdom, hilarious comments and unusual outbursts from our Grandad, an 80-something legend named Andrew Fry Senior.

Grandad on this years christmas holiday

'you can bring your boyfriend.'
'I haven't got a boyfriend, grandad'
'knowing you you've got about three of them'

Grandad on his WW2 evacuation

'they told me the steps to take when there was a hydrogen bomb. 1. put your head between your legs. 2. kiss your backside goodbye!'

Grandad's pep talk

'The only job you for you is marrying a rich man'

Grandad's going to a party

'I'm going to a dance on Wednesday, and all the women will be fighting over who gets to dance with me but I will say only if you're rich and want to take me on an expensive holiday. let me see your bank balance'

Grandad on modern technology

'so many teenagers die crossing the road because they are on their mobiles Becky. it's all 'hi sam i've got a bloody fish for dinner CRUSH''

Grandad on modern music

'rap music is crap music'
'grandad you just rapped'

Grandad on my only talent..

'yep, when we have the family band, Tom can play the guitar, Laura can sing and Becky can just..leap about in the back ground'

Grandad's presents

[on the phone] 'Which calendar  would you like, Becky? Tom has already picked the dogs so you have the choice of the cats or the one filled with Australian things'.

Grandad went to a yoga class.

It was all going well until they told him to feel the energy coming out of his heart and he shouted 'what a load of bloody rubbish! it all comes from your brain!. He said 'I was telling them all this in the middle of the class and they were all looking at me and hating me but I didn't care but it was a load of bloody garbage. I haven't been back there since'.

Grandad went to a Spanish class

he said to his teacher, 'But miss I don't understand what you're saying to me!!'
she replied, angrily, 'ANDREW I AM SPEAKING TO YOU IN ENGLISH'

Grandad's words of wisdom

'You'll go through many things in life Becky, some of them will be good and some of them will hurt but you know what you've just got to take it on the chin haven't you. It's like that time I told my dance instructor  I wouldn't be her partner. She was just too much of a slow fox.'

Christmas Day 2011


Later that night he wen't home in my cousin's boyfriend's shoes, that were over 2 sizes to big for him. In a later comment he said 'I knew they were far too big for me but I thought I was just drunk'.

Grandad went to a party

'I asked this girl up to dance, and I told her I wasn't much of a dancer. After a few steps she said, 'you're telling me Andrew' and I never saw her again'

Grandad gets famous

After seeing a video of himself on facebook:

'I'M ON THE TELEVISION!! EVERYBODY LOOK!'

Later on...

'Don't be putting pictures of me on facebook Becky, all your friends will be messaging asking who that handsome man is'

Grandad gets hip&happening

'You all just  need to chill out! you've been working so hard. Did you hear that Becky? Chill Out? I am 'with it' now you see!'

Grandad goes wild

8.30pm. 'I haven't been out this late in years!'