Hi I’m Samuel Carson and this is my brother Matthew we’d like to talk about my family’s memories of my great grandmother, or as we affectionately called her, old granny.
Whenever we visited old granny at Northbridge we wanted to see the fish in the pond. Old granny always used to give us mints or some money.
Whenever we sent old granny an invitation to our birthday parties, old granny would send a card and a nice note back to us.
Old granny loved to do jigsaw puzzles. She gave us one of a boat with 1000 pieces and we have never ever done it. Once when we visited her she had done a whole puzzle where none of the pieces matched up and she had just forced them in. We thought it was kinda funny.
Old granny loved to sing and had a special song she would sing to me called Sam Sam the dirty old man who washed his face with the frying pan . She gave me a nice Christmas decoration which said S for Sam and she gave us a Santa decoration which we hang in our Christmas tree every year.
One year we took cupcakes with purple icing 
down to old granny and sang her happy birthday and she was really happy. Old granny had some pretty cool soft toys which we used to like playing with.
Old granny always used to get me and Matthew muddled up (like everybody else). We had a big celebration for old granny’s 80th birthday.
Most of all I remember old granny had a really nice laugh.
These are some of my mum’s memories of old granny. Mum remembers working in the shoe shop with old granny. Old granny taught her the value of hard work, taking pride in your work and also made mum realize that she didn’t want to work in retail.
Every Sunday Mum and Gran went to church with old granny and would have morning tea together afterwards in gran’s kitchen.
Old granny would make the most delicious roast dinners and whenever she visited she would always have some caramello chocolate in her pockets for mum and Uncle Paul.
Old granny was away with poppa on a cruise when mum turned 10 and they sent her a telegram from the Fairstar, which mum still has. They brought her back a transistor radio for her birthday present which in those days was pretty cool.
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Mum says that old granny was a crazy, impatient driver and a hazard on the road, and she wasn’t much better in her noddy car, but she always would let mum drive her car.Mum says old granny always voted national and woe betide anyone who didn’t. Apparently old granny gave some of mum’s boyfriends a hard time if their families were labour supporters. Politics and religion were never discussed at dinner when old granny was around! Old granny had strong opinions and wasn’t afraid to stand up for them.
Old granny was strong and was good at arm wrestling and mum said her and Uncle Paul used to hate it when old granny would rub Vicks on their chests…it was very painful.
Mum remembers the year old granny brought Gruncle Peter a bottle of Gin for Christmas, but it was only half full!
The Hospice shop in Highbury was never as well run as when old granny was in charge.
Mum remembers staying for the weekends at old grannys and being spoilt rotten.
Mostly mum remembers how old granny loved her family and that she had a wicked sense of humour.
We all have memories of old granny and she touched us in many ways. Even though she is gone, her spirit lives on in all of us in the memories we have of her.
