So I went digging for a few photos this morning and I found a long forgotten letter card addressed to me from Nan dated 29 December 1970, she is replying to a letter I wrote to her.
The letter card is a newsy update all about Christmas, Pa has popped out to buy the newspaper, she thanks us for a lovely bouquet of flowers, congratulates Clive and I on good school results and provides all sorts of detail about people I do not recall.
I chuckled at her love to all the little Wedderburn's - there were 4 of us by then!
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| Pa, Nan, Edoo, Mom with me as a baby in the foreground, Gus, Selwyn (Mom's brother's) and Dad in the background. Could have been a christening looking at the formality of the occassion. |
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| So have confirmed that the photo above is my christening. Something I did not know is that Edith Argyle, or Auntie Edoo (as she signed my birthday cards), Nan's stepsister, was my godparent. This is her signature in my baby album. |
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| Growing up with Mom and Nan in Vanderbijlpark. |
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| Nan with Clive, I am looking put out! |
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| A letter card from Nan, 1970. |
For Nan, thank you for your love for a little girl called Sharon:
'We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us.'
Marcel Proust
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