The past, on the other hand, arrives in chunks, sometimes when you least expect it or sometimes unreliably when you really need to remember something important or significant.

We are doing a little more grandparent caring at the moment as my daughter has a fractured shoulder.

I read such a lovely quote about Grandparents today. In a book that I have bought for a gift, but just reading the acknowledgements made me need to buy a copy for myself.

The last acknowledgement in Where Sleeping Women Wake by Emma Pei Yin is just the most gorgeous and significant quote about Grandparents and their grandchildren.

‘ Grandparents, in this life we were fated to meet yet destined to part’

But not just yet, there is loads to do before any parting happens.