Random thoughts and observations
My eldest daughter is 18 today. I won’t write much about her, because she’ll just get embarrassed and annoyed if she discovers this post.
However, it’s an important milestone in my life as well as hers, so it deserves to be noted.
As a parent there are mixed feelings about having one of your brood officially become an adult.
Juliet is in Sydney for a couple of days. It’s the first time since we were married nearly 20 years ago that she’s been away without me, apart from a hospital visit to Perth. Her employers at the Tongue Thai’d restaurant organised and sponsored the trip. Matt and Pichai are obviously good bosses who also run an excellent Thai restaurant on Henley Beach Road. They left at 4.30am today and return on Tuesday morning. I don’t begrudge my wife the trip, but it’s strange to be home alone with three of the kids.
Measured three of the children tonight. Michael is 174cm (5′ 8), James is 126cm (4′ 1) and Maggie is 122cm (4ft). Tweet Pin It
I moved to Adelaide in early May. Son Michael followed in early October. Juliet, Kathleen, James and Maggie arrived yesterday, seven months after I left Mount Gambier. It’s great to have the family all together again. Tweet Pin It
Throughout his life Michael John Gorey was a colorful character and hard worker who toiled for his family in often adverse conditions. Susceptible in later life to mood swings and sometimes contradictory, he raised a large family in difficult circumstances marked by natural disaster and human tragedy. Three of his sons (Edward, Archibald and Michael) and a daughter (Sheila) had their lives cut severely short. Mick was born at Corop on March 25, 1884. According to his birth certificate, his father Edward was employed as a boundary rider.
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