Ice Cream and grandmothers a perfect combination SBC28

Hello Hello to all Hivians, Silver Bloggers and anyone else reading this.

Last week's The Silver Bloggers Chronicles - Prompt 28 is ....

Your favourite person while growing up.

Do you have a favourite person while growing up?

Someone that would cover up for you or even spoil you with gifts and presents😁.

So as I was thinking about this, the young lady that wrote the prompt @asiaymalay knows me so well she writes this ...

So I don't want to disappoint Asia, but yes my grandma certainly did spoil me!

I purposely led with a picture of the ice cream shop down by the harbour in Pittenweem.

This is a wee fishing village in the East Neuk of Fife, although it is not really much of a fishing village. The boats are more crab and lobster fishing boats not the fishing of my youth when I would come here to see my grandmother.

This was the village she moved to from Elie where she lived with my grandfather. It was a couple of miles down the coast. When he passed away she moved to a wee bungalow in this street.

As I was at boarding school in Edinburgh and my parents lived a plane ride away I would often come here for weekends and half term breaks.

She was a Fifer and grew up in St Andrews further up the coast. So the sea is in my blood.

She would spoil me and I will not deny it. But she was also enjoyed the spoils a cute teenage boy brought!

Whenever we went out to a restaurant or to a cafe, it helped get her good service and freebies when I ordered and the waitress was a teenage girl lol!

She would even meet me in Edinburgh sometimes, she would take a train in and we would go shopping.

She had six grandchildren, three from each daughter and there was no doubt that I was her favourite.

They installed this statue a few years ago on the sea front of the village, and it reminds me of her now.

They lived in a big house in Elie, and I would sit in their front room overlooking the sea. Come storm or calm I would see the boats go past and I wonder if they all made it home.

So yes this statue reminds me of her now, and of us looking out over the sea!

Thanks @asiaymalay for a fun and thoughtful prompt that brough back some wonderful memories!

What about you? What's Your Decade to Remember and what songs would be on that soundtrack?

Let me know in the comments! And why not join in with the fun and start your Chronicle!?

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your day!

All images and ramblings are from me, the mad Scotsman TengoLoTodo unless otherwise stated..

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@tengolotodo January 12th 2026