“Her first image for a wall hanging was something her grandmother used to talk about.”

“I remember my grandmother always had plastic bags drying on the washing line.”

“We were talking the other night about family, and he began to wax poetic about his dearly departed grandmother.”

“One group crowds around a tippling grandam, closely attentive to her stories.”

“Like her mother and her undefeated champion grandam, the precocious Storm Flag Flying keeps McGaughey on his toes.”

“My grandam says the best medicines for uneasy hearts are the bitter herb confession and the sweet flower absolution.”

“She and her mama, his grandmama have been at his bedside every day, all day for over seven months.”

“I walked a little closer to the graveside and blew a final kiss at my grandmama.”

“Him, ten years old, in that hat with earflaps Aunt Marthe had given him to go with the Christmas duffel coat from grandmama.”

“She was of massive form and highly equiline features, and looked every inch of her a grandame.”

“Ruth tells him that they have no money and that he should not ask his grandmamma for it.”

“And would they really have died, do you think, grandmamma, if the two men had not overtaken them?”

“Was not this sort of flattery more dangerous, grandmamma, than the other?”

“My favourite picture in the whole house is the one of my grandad with my grandma, of when they were young.”

“But I would quite like my grandchildren to see what their naughty old grandma got up to.”

“They'll be with their grandma and granda, so they'll have a wonderful time.”

“Tanzer's mantle is made of a collection of vintage linens used by her mother and her husband's grandmothers.”

“Old grandmothers sitting in a circle were stitching tiny colourful stitches on a quilt.”

“For ages, grandmothers educated granddaughters and mothers taught daughters, usually orally.”

“It was more or less me and a busload of grandmas and grandpas for seventeen days.”

“Aunts, uncles, grandmas, grandpas, cousins and unlinked others often swelled the crowd to near 40 by noon.”

“Aunties and uncles, grandmas and grandads all lived within walking distance and it was true to say that friends and family were one and the same.”