Monday, March 09, 2026

Happy Birthday, little (not so little) L!

It's Biggest Granddaughter's 13th birthday today (13!!) so yesterday we had a celebratory lunch at Swanston and then walked up the hill behind the brasserie, past the old Swanston Village. It was a beautiful day. 

The hills still had some snow on them, but it was quite warm on the lower slopes.  

You can see how near we are to the city - no distance at all, really. Just a golf course away. 



Littlest Granddaughter decided that she wanted to play the violin. We feel she may have unrealistic expectations, but Daughter 2 asked us to send her own violin down to her, and she found a second hand, half-size violin online to give Littlest a few lessons without committing to a teacher. The violins arrived together. When we were taking Daughter 2's instrument to the post office, we felt a bit like the gangsters in Bugsy Malone, concealing our machine guns. The post office chap was amused. I don't think he'd ever accepted a violin in the post before. 

And in the garden, 
spring
is 
definitely
coming in
at full tilt. 
 

1 comment:

  1. Happy birthday Grand daughter
    . Spring certainly has sprung there. We have Autumn things beginning to happen. Walnuts falling, fruit ripening and we are eating feijoa fruit ( the ones you don't grow there )

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