mercredi 22 novembre 2017

Take it from me, Angela Rayner: it’s great to be a granny | Geraldine Bedell

Becoming a grandparent is unequivocally one of the best things about getting older, as Labour’s shadow education secretary will find out

The Labour MP Angela Rayner has become a grandmother at the age of 37. #Grangela, as she hashtagged herself on Twitter, is lucky to be able to look forward to a long time of it: becoming a grandparent is one of the best things that can happen to you. (I became a grandmother seven weeks ago and was the founding editor of Gransnet, so I know this for a fact.)

Becoming a grandparent is one of the few unequivocally good things about getting older. Forget sudden mysterious bone-aches, the misplaced names of actors, or looking in the mirror and seeing, unaccountably, an old person looking back at you: become a grandparent and these things seem, suddenly, negligible.

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