As enthusiasts of China’s traditional culture, the grannies also hope to carry forward and promote it to reach a broader audience.

and even the portable cot set up at home - seriously, those cots are insanely hard to work out - worse than assembling Ikea wardrobes! Even when she's not working, she's still in a state of constant motion, either cleaning or baking or cooking or doing something! You did a wonderful tribute to your mother and grandmothers, Jeanie and Kevin's wife is a remarkable mother as well.

The one thing that struck me is that even in the older generations everyone is smiling or happy looking. Have they not seen the destruction that plastic pollution is causing our land-based animals, the devastation of our oceans and the creatures that die regularly.

There is humour – but also poignancy too, with tears in the house as Ben waves goodbye to Granny for the final time as illness takes hold. I don't know what brought Elizabeth Grainger, my second great grandmother, from Wales to London in the 1800s but I do know that after she married and emigrated to the United States in 1855 with her husband, Stephen, she was listed on census documents as "huckster.

This is where she was encouraged to share some of her poetry through a poetry slam at the annual festival. Late at night in a small Turkish town, a young couple tries to find a hotel room to spend the night together. In the children’s book Best Busy Year Ever by Richard Scarry, the hustle and bustle of a city is captured through colorful illustrations.