This was taken on crisp winter morning out on the passage at Caloundra...Steven and I were on holidays recently at the ol' penthouse and on our second last day up the coast it was beautiful and sunny, and quite warm for a winters day so we decided to call up Poppa to come meet us the next day for some boating! Unfortunately there was only one warm day in winter this year and it was not the day we went boating.
Poppa was quite rapped (is that how you spell it in this context? Maybe one of the teachers out there can tell me!) with his present from Mum & Dad of a model tractor...and of course it sparked much conversation about this and that model of tractors going back about 40 yrs and was it a totally true replication etc etc...most riveting conversation for the men at the table anyway! Poppa told us the story of how his father died in a tractor accident and showed us how after that, all tractors were made with covers over the battery as a safety precaution - something that would've saved our great-poppa's life back then.
Nanna also reminisced with an article she's found in the paper about the sale of the old boothville hospital (at least I think that's what it's called). All her little babies were born there and she was actually able to point out on the pic which rooms she had stayed in! I told her she should buy it then she could actually show us around!
