Today I went with my dad and my brother to my grandmother’s cottage to pick over what was left and identify any things I might like to take for myself. My grandmother is not dead, but she has reached an age (99) where living on your own in a 400-year-old stone cottage in the middle of [...]
My grandmother – my father’s mother – has been an enormously influential figure in my life, as she has been in the life of just about every other member of my family. She is 98 now, and still a formidable and at times very intimidating character.
I could write a book about Granny – probably several books [...]