For some unknown reason, Nanny Mitchel resented being called Granny or Grandmother.
It is possible that having the latter titles made her feel old.
However having been born in nineteen seventeen, by the time her only grandson Peter was born, she was, indeed already old.
Back in those days, we are talking about the late 1960s early 1970s, most adults already looked old once they had reached a certain age.
For sons dressed like their fathers, Daughters dressed like their mothers, and in Peters’s case, grandsons dressed like their grandmothers.
However, the dress-up games were to come at a later stage, for before the dress-up games came the spanking games.