Mum met wee Georgia, her third great-grandchild, when my niece and her family came up from Dunedin for the long weekend.

Yesterday, they called in at our house along with other family. I counted eight adults (including us), two small boys, the baby, and a puppy in our little house on the warm, sunny autumn morning. (Felix had found a sunny spot on the neighbour’s garden shed.) The funniest sight was Scout the puppy heading out the door with one of Mum’s woolly slippers!

This morning I have the little boys’ artwork, spread out to dry, to remember them by. I will add these pieces to the archive of children’s artwork I have kept.

Here is a glimpse of the archive. – including work by the little boys’ mother. She loves that they enjoy drawing as she and her cousins did when they came to my house as children.

The artist of this oversize birthday card would later graduate with a fine arts degree.