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My Grandparents

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 What a grandiloquent title 'grandparents'. They normally get diminutive names like 'grappus' or 'nanna'. One of ours carried the headline 'Toots' but that wasn't a purely grandparent title. I'm motivated by RIK's endeavor to reflect on his grandparents, being the same as mine, I thought I'd start afresh and put down my thoughts. There is an intrinsic difficulty in such writing: honesty, complete, comprehensive, the good and the bad. Or a sanitized version out of respect, courtesy etc. I'll go with the former. Audience: who will read, and do they want to know of all that... Subjects: is it fair to some subjects to disclose now the thoughts, facts and emotions, which might be descriptive, honest, but hurtful, disclosing their warts and all, or the writer's prejudices. Will it be accurate, given it is one man's opinion in any event. And from a time when the grandparent was elderly, and the grandchild was young. I ribbed Roger af...
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2022 in the Rear Vision Mirror

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Image: Mount Wellington with a waft of light cloud hanging low under the organ pipes  I thought I'd summarise the year as we approach Christmas and New Year, whilst changing over diaries. The minor things that make me happy, and the major things that do or don't. It all seems so calm at this time, Saturday 17th December 2022. Happy to have spent the last week in Sydney with Camille (or The Girl Not Known as Magnus Carlsen ), Harper and Alex, also Sarah with us for part of the time, and Roger, Joe, Chris, Mary up from Hobart - all for Beryl's funeral, and a weekend at Pete Mann's shack at Colo River, along with an informal dinner, getting to know Clem Leske Jnr - a good fellow. Missed the company of Rosie - always an asset in formal or informal social circumstances. We have had the benefit of sharing significant parts of the year in Hobart, Bruny, road trip to South Aust, in Sydney and in Vancouver/British Columbia, and adjacent territories. But the Sydney trip was just ...
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