Guest post by Peter

Aunts

Does one need an excuse to blog about one's aunts?  Can I assume that enough of you had aunts who one way or another loomed large in your childhoods for you to be interested in mine?  Let's hope.

Perhaps a woman needs to have been an elder sister to become a classic, bloggable aunt, accustomed from an early age to having younger siblings to admonish and direct.  Twenty odd years ago I was a having lunch at a major family gathering.  Facing me across the table were three young women of the ne