16-08-2022, 01:54 PM
Good afternoon - I agree it is a beautiful day Venetian - the monarchs are back today itÔÇÖs so warm .
We had a wonderful send off for my lovely old Aunt - at the Eskdale church which is on the outskirts of Napier - you may have noticed it if any of you have come down the Napier Taupo Road -my Dad was a great diary keeper so I delved back into the years of her growing up - he wrote with much pain when his sister her mother was killed - she was one of four under five - a kerosene iron blew up she was using and she was knocked unconscious and smothered - their father was ploughing the field completely oblivious - he talked about the 4 children coming to live with his Mum - when my Aunt turned 12 my grandfather decided she was old enough to drive the tractor - my Dad remarked in his dairy the wheels on the tractor were bigger than her .Absolute icing on the cake my Mum gave my Dads bagpipes to a family of very talented pipers and one of them played Dads pipes at her service - boy that had the tissue boxes going
I will miss here she was one of those people who always saw the good in people
I read quite a few diaryÔÇÖs the other night finding bits and pieces for the service had a laugh - he wrote ÔÇ£upset Chum (thatÔÇÖs what he called my Mum )today - opened the new depot big occasion Norm Kirk and James Wattie in attendance for the official opening - the village are impressed with the parliamentary car with a flag on the front and Kirk is having trouble getting in the depot everybody wants to shake his hand - this is revolutionary and if James Wattie is as successful as he thinks he is going to be I am going to have to buy 10 trucks - my contract is to distribute his cans country wide .The three of us sat round talking - we were supposed to go to Napier for lunch - I happened to mention that I lived just a few doors down so Kirk suggested we should go have a cuppa at home instead of heading off to town - the look on Chums face as we came through the door damn near struck me dead - she was stoking the range pushing a bit of wood in with her foot - lucky a pot of soup was bubbling away - I think Kirk just enjoyed a bit of reality - the kids had no idea who they both were - they are so used to drivers being at the table sharing their Mothers soup - will tell them one day if James Wattie is as successful as he thinks he is going to be that he ate their mothers soup - Chums still not speaking -
His diaries are amazing - a trucking historian borrowed them and recorded all the details of the industry as my Dad was prominent in the growth of trucking - it worries me they should be in safe storage
We had a wonderful send off for my lovely old Aunt - at the Eskdale church which is on the outskirts of Napier - you may have noticed it if any of you have come down the Napier Taupo Road -my Dad was a great diary keeper so I delved back into the years of her growing up - he wrote with much pain when his sister her mother was killed - she was one of four under five - a kerosene iron blew up she was using and she was knocked unconscious and smothered - their father was ploughing the field completely oblivious - he talked about the 4 children coming to live with his Mum - when my Aunt turned 12 my grandfather decided she was old enough to drive the tractor - my Dad remarked in his dairy the wheels on the tractor were bigger than her .Absolute icing on the cake my Mum gave my Dads bagpipes to a family of very talented pipers and one of them played Dads pipes at her service - boy that had the tissue boxes going
I will miss here she was one of those people who always saw the good in people
I read quite a few diaryÔÇÖs the other night finding bits and pieces for the service had a laugh - he wrote ÔÇ£upset Chum (thatÔÇÖs what he called my Mum )today - opened the new depot big occasion Norm Kirk and James Wattie in attendance for the official opening - the village are impressed with the parliamentary car with a flag on the front and Kirk is having trouble getting in the depot everybody wants to shake his hand - this is revolutionary and if James Wattie is as successful as he thinks he is going to be I am going to have to buy 10 trucks - my contract is to distribute his cans country wide .The three of us sat round talking - we were supposed to go to Napier for lunch - I happened to mention that I lived just a few doors down so Kirk suggested we should go have a cuppa at home instead of heading off to town - the look on Chums face as we came through the door damn near struck me dead - she was stoking the range pushing a bit of wood in with her foot - lucky a pot of soup was bubbling away - I think Kirk just enjoyed a bit of reality - the kids had no idea who they both were - they are so used to drivers being at the table sharing their Mothers soup - will tell them one day if James Wattie is as successful as he thinks he is going to be that he ate their mothers soup - Chums still not speaking -
His diaries are amazing - a trucking historian borrowed them and recorded all the details of the industry as my Dad was prominent in the growth of trucking - it worries me they should be in safe storage