My Grandparents were/are so rad.

I was doing a bit of research on my family recently and it turns out I have an interesting background.

Grandma - mum's mum.
Grandpa - mum's dad
Nan - dad's mum
Pop - dad's dad.

- Somehow along the lines it turns out I'm a relative to Graham Norton. It's very complicated story to explain that, but it's something to do with my grandma (my mum's mum).

- My Grandfather on my mum's side had the role of the sergeant major in the army... very strange to believe as he was, as I remember him, a very soft-spoken man.

- My Pop (dad's dad) joined the navy when he was only 17 years old and fought in World War 2. He's told me stories of how cowardly the American soldiers were at the time and at the slightest gust of wind would start firing their weapons every where, one night completely shredding pop's tent to pieces.

- I don't know a whole lot about my Nan except she was a very pretty woman in her youth. She's a very lovely woman that I care for very much and, without doubt, she is the best cook in the universe. Everything food-wise she touches turns to gold.

- Grandma was very much like me, apparently, and I wish I had the chance to get to know her as she died when I was only 4 or 5 months old. She once invited the entire Indian cricket team for dinner when she was around my age, which they accepted much to my grandmother's mum's surprise. When she was young, she used to collect cricketers autographs and one particular cricketer asked her if she would like her's. Her response was simply "I don't know, are you famous?" which makes me laugh every time. Since then she formed a great relationship with whom she later found out to be cricket legend Jack Fingleton. Her children simply knew him as Uncle Jack, even though he wasn't technically their uncle at all. Uncle Jack even went on Parkinson in the 1970's, so that's pretty remarkable.

- My Pop has done many amazing things in his life time thus far including being a head police officer. The photos I've seen of him are amazing, most of them are of him riding a horse as that was for some reason the best mode of transport at the time? :-P

- Grandpa owned many pubs in the 60's and 70's according to my mum who has fond memories of living in the upstairs part. This would require mum and my aunties to travel long distances usually on a bus in order to get to school from places such as the City to Brighton or Glenelg.

- Something I'm very proud of my pop for doing is overcoming cancer. I was very very young when he had it but I'm proud to say he's still very much alive and strong. He's doing well for a man of nearly 83 years.