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Re: Grandparents
I only knew my two Grandmas as my Grandad on both sides died way before I was born, I was probably closest to my mum's mum as she lived nearer and I spent a lot of time with her when I was growing up. She'd had a hard life, having to bring up 3 kids on her own and she suffered terribly with asthma, she also lost the use of one hand after a bad bout of shingles but she never let any of it get her down. She was frail and tiny to look at but she had a brilliant spirit and outlook on life, I could talk to her about anything ... sometimes things I couldn't even tell my mum. She was just a few days short of her 95th birthday when she died which is ten years ago now but I still miss her. My Grandma on my Dad's side was in the same sort of mold too, she was albino and so was blind from a very early age but still managed to bring up her 3 children on her own. She was a member if the blind society's domino team and one of my favourite memories of her was when she was left out of the team one week because someone thought she was getting too old (I think she was about 89 at the time) - she marched down there and told them in no uncertain terms that she would decide when she was too old.
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