Wales

Created by Megan Rimmer 16 years ago
I’ve got so many amazing memories of our holidays in Wales with Nan and Gran, but these are a couple of the funniest. Larns has already mentioned the Reach for the stars night, that was hilarious, but another boss holiday was when we went to some joke shop, and me and Chloe decided to play tricks on Nan. First we got some fake ciggies and pretended to hide behind a fruit machine, but blatantly in view of Nan, puffing away at them. Within seconds Nan was over – ‘MEGAN AND CHLOE RIMMER GET OUT FROM BEHIND THERE WITH THOSE CIGARETTES!!!!’ To be honest its one of the only times I can really remember Nan shouting at us, and she was really shouting, but me and Chloe were falling over in hysterics. She snatched the ciggys off us and dramatically stubbed them out on the fruit machine only to discover a load of talc bursting out of them. Once she realised she was laughing along with us, she was never one to hold a grudge, even after we got her half an hour later with a plastic ciggy burn on the car seat and then tried to squirt Gran with a lighter full of water (Larna foiled that plan). Then that night we were all dancing in the caravan, at first it was me Chloe Larna and Nan but we managed to get Gran up and the next thing him and Nan are bopping round the caravan together. We were made up, and then me and Chloe came up with the fantastic idea of cutting up some shiny foil wig we’d bought at the Tiger Club and throwing it over them as confetti. Sadly, Larna was shocked at the idea and the night ended with her sobbing clinging round Gran’s neck, trying to tell them what we were up, shouting ‘I don’t want them to hurt you Nan!!!’ while Nan shouted ‘Don’t ruin their surprise Larna!!’ and tried to keep dancing so we could carry it out. As you can imagine, me and Chloe were in absolute hysterics, as we were pretty much all the time on all these holidays. Even when Larns was having a sensitive moment / crazy freakout, or when me and Chloe were fighting Nan could always cheer us up and make us laugh, you could never have a cob on on these holidays for more than 2 minutes. One of the funniest things ever was when she got up on stage in the Tiger Club, on a holiday about 8 or 9 years ago. The first time was for some hula hoop contest – the fella on stage was asking for any grandparents to get up and she jumped up straight away, Larna was freaking out going ‘Nana nooooooooo you’re embarrassing me!!!’ but me and Chloe were made up. She was so funny, proper giving it beans, laughing and joking and trying to help all the others as well. I’m pretty sure she won, but she was the star of the show anyway. Then the next night, or on the same holiday anyway, they had another competition where groups of women had to dress men up in their clothes. Nan absolutely stole the show again – the other two women she was working with must have donated a coat and a bit of lippy between them because Nan had her blouse, skirt and shoes off, she was boppin round barefoot in her underskirt with her jacket done up doing his makeup, me and Chloe were on the floor laughing and Gran had to take Larna out the room she was so mortified. Obviously Nan’s team won, and at the end the fella she was dressing up came over and gave her the trophy, saying ‘you deserve that, that was all you!’ Me and Chloe were made up I remember sitting there beaming thinking ‘I have the best Nan in the entire world’. And she was.