First Friday was to the opening of the parish art and craft show in the evening. And talk about luck, DH and I won the lucky door prize.
The basket had really lovely foodstuffs in it and had been donated by the local Federal Member who also opened the show.
And of course he circulated after he opened the show and chatted to guests.
The following Friday I had been invited to a Memorial/Wake. I mind at least one grandchild on Friday afternoons and had sort of decided that I wouldn’t attend as that day I had 2 to mind; one in the morning as well. I should mention here that the deceased was a former student of mine who died suddenly while holidaying overseas and was only 49.
Here’s a class photo of Mandy in my Year 7 class in 1981
(Thanks to Facebook we had reconnected in the last 10 or so years.)
Another former student contacted me on the Wednesday on behalf of one of Mandy’s sisters asking whether I would be attending as the MC planned to mention me.
Long story short...lots of reorganising etc but I got to the Treasury Hotel at 4.10 pm, joining former work colleagues of Mandy’s plus many, many friends of hers, to celebrate her life.
So glad I did make the effort to attend, especially seeing the lovely reaction from Mandy’s partner when he was introduced to me. Apparently she spoke about me a bit and it may have been some of my influence that made Mandy a ‘grammar pedant’ 😄! I was very proud of her achievements.
A number of my former students also attended and it was lovely catching up with them. They are very polite darlings refusing to believe I’m 68! Lol.
I used to be taller than this lovely lady who looked after me so well during the evening and also insisted that she and another friend walk with me the few blocks to my bus stop.
And here’s an old photo from 1979 when the school celebrated its 75th Anniversary and most of us dressed up. The lovely Sharyn in the previous photo is the student in the white bonnet beside my male colleague.
A lifetime ago it seems 💕
