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heavy and cumbersome as I walked unsteadily over to her, I placed it carefully on the floor in front of her. Her eyes widened as she looked at the gaily wrapped parcel in front of her, everyone waited longing to know what I had bought. Leaning forward she carefully removed the paper, folded it and placed it to one side, and then like a child she giggled and opened the hamper lid, and let out a squeal of delight at the goodies laid out in front of her.

We all looked at each other and laughed at her delight, as she emptied the contents in front of her then re-packed them back in again. When she had gone home and we were left sitting and chatting we reflected that we had been trying to hard over the years of finding a gift for Grandmother, we had not looked at the kind of woman she was, a woman that had been through two world wars, had to make do and wasted nothing. In the end the gift that had delighted her had been simple and things that she used in her daily life. She hadn't wanted fancy gifts; they were frivolous to her all she wanted was the simple things in life.
After that we all put into a hamper for her, one year we forgot the quality street and she soon told us that we had forgotten the sweets, she had a decidedly wicked glint in her eye; we soon got her a tin and never forgot again. Granddad we had always got right, he simply wanted just three items, whiskey, socks and aftershave.

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