19th September Why not visit your gran too?

90 year old Elsie Battersby of Matlock, Derbyshire was really surprised to see her grandchildren and great grandchildren on TV on Sunday morning. Really, really surprised to see that they had managed to travel the nearly 300 mile round trip to London and then spend 16 hours in a queue in order to see someone else's dead grandma, when they really, really seem to struggle to find the time and desire to travel the 8 miles to see their own grandma, who is still very much alive, in a local care home.

Spreaking to Grace Under Pressure's very own care in the community coordinator, Elsie revealed, "It's good that my grandson could manage to take time off from that really, really busy and demanding job he has to go to London. And all those pictures he put on Facegram and Instabook, that Gordon, one of the carers here, who does that sort of thing, told me about, well he did look very dignified. They even managed to see a show, do a sightseeing trip round London and stay in a really swanky hotel too, so Gordon told me."

"And so what if they couldn't just pop into see me for my annual 15 minute visit on 90th birthday. It was just such a shame that their car broke down that very morning meaning they weren't able to come. Still at least they did remember to ring at 7pm that night to let me know. In a strange way I suppose it helped to pass the day, looking out of the window across onto the car park waiting for their car to pull in. Only it never did. Still they have busy lives. And I can always save those biscuits till next year."