Buzz & Beyond: Grandparents and grandparenting

I suspected there was something more than friendship at work – but what? My mother was so outraged by my questions she wouldn’t even talk about it. About a decade ago, my po po (maternal grandmother) entered aged care. As Mum and I sorted through her belongings, I found a sepia photograph, hidden inside an almanac, of my grandmother and a woman I had never seen before. Po Po didn’t like to be photographed and rarely smiled in photos but, in this one, she looked happy. There was also an intimate air to their pose.