Chapter 4I’ve learned over the years never to argue with nanna, you’ll always lose the argument even if you win. My grandmother was born in 1950 and that makes her part of the baby boomer generation. Her father fought the Japanese in New Guinea and her mother worked in a munitions factory during the war. She has no memory of her father however, he was a career soldier who went to Korea in 1951 and was killed there.
Her mother was a strict Methodist and I do have memories of a much older woman tut tutting over me when I came to stay with nanna. Apparently, my nanna had also been a single mother back in the day, about the time the then Labour government introduced the single mother’s pension. It was decried at the time by Conservatives but the pension made it possible for single mothers to
