Good morning, dear Blogger readers.
On Sunday, 2 March, our Bloemfontein granddaughter, Abby turned 13! How I remember the day she was born in that city. Grant and I had just relocated from the Great Rift Valley in Kenya to Tanzania. When two of the ladies on camp came to welcome me, all I was bubbling over about my newest little grandie.
Recently Abby danced at the Sand du Plessis theaters in Bloemfontein. Amanda, her mum, shared the photos below with me.
Abby Hedges - she looks JUST like Angus at that ageSeeing these photos, took me back to when Angus (Abby's dad) and my younger son was a teenager. He attended Saint Andrews all-boys school. The school put on a play production called Julius and Cleopatra - a spoof of a famous Shakespear play.
Being only boys, Angus and three other lads were handmaidens in the royal court. My eyes popped slightly when I saw my son - like his classmates - wearing female support garments under short tutus! They were all beautifully made-up with their hair scraped back. At the famous line "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears", Angus and his fellow thespians responded with "Ears?"; each respectively cupping a hand behind an ear.
Unfortunately, in the 90's there were no Smartphones or digital cameras but seeing Abby in those photos, reminded me how much she looks like her daddy at that age.
On that same Sunday of Abby's birthday, she had asked to be baptized at church. Later that day Amanda shared the photos of this auspicious and very serious spiritual occasion.
