Every now and then every other women’s magazine has articles about young mums, & then goes on to feature baby, mum, grandma, great-grandma, great-great-grandma, & perhaps yet another generation up. Amazing articles. Amazing people. Lucky lot. Or were they just fast? Anyway, we were neither fast nor are we very young, but we certainly have been lucky to be able to meet up with Tara’s great-grandma this Christmas. Notice the 84 years age gap between the two of them, with me & my mum thrown in between! Also, of course, a fine study of Mendel’s laws, & three instances of a rather dominant nose at three different points of a nose’s life circle (inherited from Tara’s maternal great-grandfather who I never met either). Tara was on her best wriggly behaviour, but of course in such a set up it’s not her mother’s job to keep her quiet, is it? That’s a grandmother’s job. Mummy & great-grandma just come along for the ride, the cake, the gossip & the photo session.
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