This will be a short post as I'm in the middle of a complex house move. My daughter and her family are moving back into my house and I'm moving into the annexe of the house. This means fitting the stuff of 2.5 houses into 1.5 houses and a large shed. It's a challenge. It's also quite unusual in white British households for three generations to live together if there are no caring-for-the-old responsibilities. (Though it will probably become more common as housing costs force people's hands.) The move is disruptive for the children (though one is tiny, so just settles his concern with Yet More Milk). MB, who is seven, has been reading some of the books of her even-youthier-youth as they're a comfort, too. We read Peepo! planning to read it with the baby soon. And there we were: a family of three generations living co-operatively together, sharing space, caring for each other but not being carers:
"They live with their Ba, too!"
And all the arcane details of 1940s/50s life became just quirks in a recognisable set-up. Welcome back to the 1950s...
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| Peepo! Janet and Allan Ahlberg, 1981 |
Out 15 August 2021, Miles Kelly/Windmill Books:
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