A gathering
This weekend past was spent celebrating my baby brother’s birthday.
He turned 40.
How is THAT possible? *sigh*
‘Twas a lovely weekend which was broken up into ‘friends’ and ‘family’ sections. I was honoured to make both categories!
The first event saw lots of lovely highlights, including a sunset ride for cocktail-wear-glad guests on a flatbed truck lined with hay bales. Those pics are on my sister-in-law Curly’s camera.
These snaps shared below were from the ‘family’ gathering on Sunday.
You can see my Dad, Mum, cousin B, sister and my cousin Tom’s wife Nell in this pic.
It was lovely and relaxed, even though no less than 20 children were scampering around my brother and sister-in-law’s houseyard.
We had lunch on a huge trestle table set up in their car shed, lined with forms. It was perfect.
Family gatherings can go either way, really, can’t they? This one went really well… lots of laughter and story-telling.
My cousin Dan The Man, and his darling daughter J.
My niece Rubes with her baby cousin Poppy.
Poppy after eating some of the sandpit. How adorable is she?
(And yes, my husband was a little clucky after some time spent with her!)
I wrote a poem for my little brother. It was among many personal tributes, all of which made me very proud to be his sister…. and while some of what I penned was having a go old-fashioned ‘go’ at him (although I didn’t call him ‘boxhead’ NEARLY as much as his mates) here is a small except from ‘The Little Brother Ditty‘:
We’ve seen him through so many stages
From little boy to full-grown bloke
Siblings through the ages
Sharing many home-grown jokes.
We take great credit to have trained him
Honing skills to make him great
At understanding chick-things
And being a top mate.
And then we gave him ‘girl germs’…
I think he appreciated it.
I know we had fun…
😉
BB
8 Comments
JulieinOz
Crikey BB…was doing OK til I got to the poem!
Gotta love the family gatherings…dont know where I would be without them. Camera would go rusty too!
Gabi
Love the last shot!
Bush Babe
Yes. I hate my profile but thankfully my brother’s grin is so blinding most people won’t notice it! 😉
JENNY TALIA
Aren’t we lucky to have a brothers that are also ‘good blokes’?
(and good targets for ribbing!)
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jeanieinparadise
ha – just looking at our profiles there, good thing we know our parentage (and have the little fella in between us) because they are NOTHING alike – I win the witches nose contest.
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Andrew
Just nice.
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Margie from New York
I love little Poppy on the table, how cute is that! It reminds me of my baby niece Jenna and how we would sit her on the table, bed, wherever and admire how cute she was. The platinum curls and little outfits! Oh and Jenna thought we were the best thing in the whole world. Now she is 12 and a tween and really cool, and all of us are dorky nerds. 🙂
Debby
I love the many generations of family seated ’round the table. The dazzling smiles must be genetic!
I’m going to sound like such an odd ball, but I’m going to say it: I am much taken with that light bulb in the second picture.
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