Mementos of my grandparents
My family has been talking, recently, about mementos. Specifically, what mementos will my children have of their grandparents? As I know from experience, the most significant and enduring mementos are those of attachment, emotion and sentiment, forged in the relationships between people. But it's nice, too, to have at least one or two physical reminders of the people we have known and loved. Of my four grandparents, the one to whom I was closest as a child was my maternal grandmother, Lily Jane Pritchell, nee Allsopp. Interestingly, she was not a blood relation. She and her…
