Past #4: On my grandmother's 97th birthday

Writing about places and people from the past

My maternal grandma, Eirwen Mary Jones, born Eirwen Mary Walters, would have been 97 yesterday. When I think of her, I think first of the white bubble of hair haloing her head, a constant reminder of her Welsh name, which meant “snow white”. Apart from brief forays into ash-blonde and pink rinses, it had been there since I was born in 1978, when she was…