Birthdays

Grandson turns 8 tomorrow - my hasn't that gone fast!!

He is growing up and becoming a young man.

Saw him yesterday for a few hours; his Dad arranged a picnic for us all. Sadly younger son's wife, M and Abi were both ill so they couldn't join us, which was a shame because it is M's birthday today. Still it was a lovely day, warm and sunny (23C -73F) after the howling winds and cold, cold weather (hovered around 13C - 55F) on Friday and Saturday.

We don't see him often enough because his mum and Dad split a few years back. For some reason she and her girlfriend and children came also - beats me the idea behind that - she must think we are going to kidnap him or something. She still hasn't signed the access papers, after a year and a half, for his Dad to have him every second weekend. In view of the fact that she missed growing up with her Dad you would think she would not want the same thing happening with her son but....  Oh well, I guess we all do things in ways that others cannot understand.

Anyway, we saw him and that was what really mattered. Elder son and his partner are hoping to move to Queensland and B spoke to grandson about it; he was very excited to know that his Dad would love him to come up for a week during school holidays; just hope his Mum doesn't prevent it happening.

Of course, being a normal boy he couldn't just smile for the camera, had to pose and look 'cool'.... lol.

Off to get myself some gouache tomorrow - have 2 paintings partly done just waiting to finish them with gouache and have a few others planned in my head, will keep you posted and I'll post them on my Arty blog when they are completed.

Can't believe the change in the weather - southern NSW and northern Vic had so much rain that they have been declared Natural disaster areas; the roads and the railway line have been cut between the two.

For two or three days we went back to winter, even had snow on the mountains! Now we have returned to our normal spring weather; much as I like cool winter weather when it arrives in the middle of warm it is a bit of a shock.

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