Rooti Tooti Granny has been musing about Grandmothers!
My two Grandmothers maternal was Granny, paternal was Gran, are both still clear in my memory for their differences and their similarities.
Granny was a plump ally who wore corsets and had her hair permed, she kept a truly spotless house and always changed into a smart dress (with jewellery and fresh lipstick) in the afternoon after she had prepared the vegetables for the evening meal I presume this was so that visitors could be received with ease.
Gran was an energetic little lady quite feisty and taking no nonsense. She cycled well into her seventies and continued to play a role in the family business after she was widowed. She boldly took the boat across the Atlantic to visit her siblings in Canada and the USA, on her own in the 1940's adventurous and determined!
And what has this to do with me today, you ask? Well clearly I am a mixture of the two I leave it to those that know the Rooti Tooti family to decide which characteristics I have inherited! What I do know is that we now live in a different world and I don't think you can easily compare our lives.
Is my forthcoming little jaunt to California comparable to Gran boarding a passenger boat to sail to Canada? Are my stories and cuddles for the Rooti Tooti babies as loving as my Grannies were I do so hope they are and will be as long remembered! I hope that a mixture of feisty (well perhaps we should say determined) and hardworking has been inherited, and in its turn passed on.
Perhaps its this that helped us to set up Rooti Tooti and work through the hurdles of the initial stages to give us the successful internet company that it is today. Who would have thought that these two different grandmothers would have a role in a family company providing lovely breastfeeding clothing for mothers? Would they approve? I think they would.
As a final note, keep your grandmother sweet as she will no doubt have plenty of wisdom stored away and ready to impart when the time comes!