In 1980 Mum had her first grandchild, Sarah, who went on to follow in the
footsteps of her mum and grandmother and became a nurse and now a midwife.
Something else changed too, she became a new person, she became Granna. For
the rest of her life she was known as Granna. Rachel, who is here today, wrote me
a lovely note 2 weeks ago. She spoke, I think, for all of Mum’s expanding family.
She said that Granna had just welcomed her into the family from the start, ‘There
was never any judgment about who I was or wasn’t, no question of whether I was
good enough for her grandson. If I was good enough for Daniel , I was good
enough for her. “Rachel tried to explain who Granna was to her brother, Jeremy,
who was confused about this “enchanting-sounding Granna” of whom Rachel
enthused. Rachel replied, ‘Well TECHNICALLY Granna isn’t MY Granna, she is
Daniel’s but it’s a testament of my fondness for her that she became Granna to me too.
paulddmurphy
18th June 2020
I really liked this quote and so did my great niece, Lottie. She liked it so much that her mum bought her a Winnie the Pooh charm to go on her charm bracelet
A single, short quote comes to mind when I think of Granna and Bob. Forget your
Jean Paul Sartres - they weren’t into existentialist French philosophers, but they
did love a wise old saying from Winnie the Pooh who once said:
"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."
paulddmurphy
18th June 2020
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