Had she lived, today (27th November) would have been my mothers 100th Birthday. She was born in 1912 but was quick to point out …AFTER the Titanic sank.

Born in a small village in County Armagh, she married quite late…to a man from West Belfast and they had two children….me and my younger sister, happily married with three daughters in London.

Both my parents lived long enough to see all of their five grand-children…my younger son was born six weeks before my father died. And my mother died in 2003 so she got to see her first great-grandchild.

Alas her final years were not happy. She was a family oriented woman and she found living in an “old peoples home” depressing. Obviously its better to think of her at her healthiest. And the “good” times.

We had a family dinner on Sunday. She never got to meet my second daughter-in-law. Nor did she get to see our younger grandson. But her legacy lives on……thru my wife and daughters-in-law.

But my parents did get to meet their great-granddaughter………several years too soon.

Happy Birthday Mammy. Rest in Peace.