Friday, July 10, 2009

Family love

Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse
I’ve just returned from a family holiday down south with The Boy, The German, The Chief, The Drama Queen and my incredibly sprightly 90-year old maternal grandmother The Matriarch. She was particularly entertaining, mainly because of two things 1. She’s feisty and 2. She’s deaf. Together this combination makes for hours of entertainment.

The point of this winter sojourn was to spend some quality family time before the Drama Queen departs on her mission at the beginning of next month. We went sightseeing and shopping, ate plenty of good food and played some seriously vicious rounds of Uno. My favourite conversation of the week was between The Matriarch and The Chief as we were (slowly) making our way down a limestone hillside in Hamelin Bay:

The Matriarch: "Come on old girl - get a move on."

The Chief: "Stop being so rude, or I’ll push you down the hill."

Yeah, it was five-day love-fest!

1 comments:

Sals said...

mate, I love that grandmother of yours...she's soo funny!