A tribute to Granny and Grandpa Station

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Memories

• Granny's Sunday "Roast Chicken" lunch with junket for dessert
• Appletizer in Noordhoek
• Grandpa fetching us from Midway and walking us to the flat
• Holidays at The Birkenhead Hotel (very special!)
• Their Rondebosch flat and Grandpa's garage
• The "cutlet" and anemone shells that Grandpa collected
• Going to Muizenberg on the train with Grandpa, then walking along the beach at a mighty pace
• Going to the Birkenhead Hotel in Hermanus
• Walking along the coast at Hermanus
• Granny's hair net
• Cycling to their flat through the Rondebosch fields
• Granspa's hankis
• Washing our hands before lunch,
• Granny's jewellery box and ivory comb set,
• Grandpa listening to share prices on the radio.
• Their antique furniture
• Granpa's cluttered garage and his tools
• Grandpa's old mercedes
• Grandpas love of "Jock and the Bushveld"
• The gold clock they gave me as a gift
• lunch at the Mount Nelson
• Grandpa's insatiable appetite (so that is where I got it!)
• Granny's singing with a trembling lilt
• Their statue of the horse and boy (I still have it)
• Visiting us every Sunday with chocolate logs
• Grandpa's binoculars
• Grandpa's hat and kaki shorts
• Pushing grandpa in his wheel chair when he got poorly and how he started opening up in his last few years

Gran and Grandpa earlier on

With me as a baby

Camping at Uilenskraal - memories don´t get better

Family lunches to the Mount Nelson

Family outings to the beach

Family photos

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