Birthday Geoff

Happy birthday Geoff! To celebrate the big eight zero, I thought we might celebrate some of your early years. Aren't you just gorgeous, young man.

Then I couldn't resist this photograph of my mother and Geoff in January 1943. This is one of a number of photos taken in Bryanston, in the swimming pool of the house next door to the one we grew up in.

And finally, one of the family -- remembering that grandmother Jessie Kathleen Margaret shares a birthday with Geoff. She was born in 1900. I think this is probably about 1945-ish.

Happy happy day, Geoff and family!

Sunday fiddling

Last Sunday we went to watch and listen to our friend David playing his fiddle with the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club. The performance was in a local park, about 3 km away from our house.

The young couple in the photo above are Judy (Mary and David's younger daughter) and her young man Etienne. Etienne and his family come from Pretoria, and moved to Melbourne in the same year as we did.

Here's my friend Mary, in the orange top and white pants.

But on to the music. This is the Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club. Our friend David is the bearded man, standing on the right of the pic. His face is obscured by the microphone in this photo, but you can see him better (well, maybe) in the video that follows. Enjoy the little slice of music -- we did!