Rest In Peace, Beryl McInnes

As you can gather from the title of this post, my grandmother Beryl passed away at 7:30am, Thursday 12th of January, 2006. Astrid, Matthew and I spent a few hours with her the day before but we all had to come back to Sydney on that night.

Saying that it was very sad seems to be a shallow understatement.
My siblings and I consider ourselves very lucky to have visited in time - if we had arrived half a day later, we would not have had the chance to say good-bye.

Despite the sadness of the situation, it was good to spend a few hours with my extended family in Ballarat. It's great to hear my aunts Mandy and Sue and uncle Andrew reminicing about growing up in Ballarat. It was also glad to see my cousins Gab, Brooke, Matt, Simon & Leah - even though the reasons meant that I wasn't at my most talkative. I'd like to go back down to visit after I come back from India.