Tomorrow is Granny’s 93rd birthday. 93! A matriarch to her core, the rest of the numbers are impressive too: 5 children (I’m number 3); 14 grandchildren; 7 great grandchildren so far. So I hope you will indulge me if I make this week’s thrilling instalment of country life all about her. Growing up in the Kentmere Valley in Cumbria, who would ever have thought that she would travel the world as an operatic soprano in a career that culminated in a Glyndebourne season. ‘Culminated’, because my father was in the audience one evening and wrote to her, and then asked her out and …. well, a (half)blind date resulted in almost fifty years of marriage. It’s been a hard life though, too, and she is a living testament to faith and courage and determination. Happy birthday, Mrs W! Xx
THE LEGENDARY MRS W
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