‘The word Grandma sounds far too old!’
SAM PALMER, 59, IS FROM KENT
Showing my friends pictures of my newborn grandson Rafferty, I couldn’t help but smile. ‘You should be called Glammy’, my friend chuckled. Rafferty was born in February 2023, and I was smitten from the moment I laid eyes on him. ‘I like that, it has a ring to it,’ I replied.
I have a gorgeous, blended family with my husband David, and together we have six children: Ollie, now 35, Tom, 33, Ed, 32, Frankie, 32, Tilly, 25, and Maddie, 22.
I was always excited at the thought of having grandchildren. I was close to my maternal grandmother – who I called ‘Nanny’ – and loved her dearly.
Born in 1908, she worked as a pharmacist, which…