in loving memory

Matilda Edna Frazer

September 7 1921 - June 12th 2006

i dont really know if our travel blog is the place, but i wanted to pay tribute to my wonderful Grandma Frazer, who passed away yesterday.

She will be remembered by me for forcing me to wear a scratchy woollen bonnet to go tobogganing at the lake, sending letters in code to her grandchildren in Australia, teaching me to make paper snowflakes, her delicious cookies with raisins or choc chips if you were lucky, (her awful tomato aspic...urgh), garlic salad dressing that could kill small children, going against all the fashion trends and wearing a turquoise tracksuit with all her grandchildrens' names printed on it (except Jane - who came out as June) in public!, teaching me and Simon Mah Jong, letting me crash at the condo when I was 17 and clueless, teasing Grandpa and her sense of humour (which I only really appreciated on a canoe trip around the same time), her strange political alliances, for being a strong, intelligent, wise and living a life that a granddaughter could admire - just generally being all you could want in a Grandma.

xxx