Big Nanna

"Big Nanna" was Paul Magrs' grandmother, on his mother's side. She raised "Mam" and her sisters and her brother, though they were very poor, so their Christmases, among other things, were small, despite Big Nanna's efforts. In the 1970s, she made non-alcoholic ginger wine for her family, made from blackcurrant jelly that'd been left to dissolve in boiling water with bagfuls of sugar and ginger essence. (PROSE: Party Like it's 1979)