Grace Diment’s 94th Birthday

19th May 2022

Trevor and I decided to take Mum on a drive for her birthday, so we waited until the cleaner had finished and then arrived to pick her up from her unit at Morphettvale for a mystery adventure.

We started off by driving up the hill and into Clarendon. Here we stopped at the pub for lunch before heading onwards.

We tried to visit the Mt Bold reservoir, but it was closed for the day , so we had a brief stop at Kuitpo forest (The Eucalypts) to look for pine mushrooms (no luck) before continuing on the road through Ashbourne.

From there we took the Nangkita road as slowly as we could , and did a survey of how things have changed since the Diment family lived there. Lots of memories.

We continued on to Willunga, where we stopped at Tealicious tea shop for fancy cake and a cuppa before heading on towards home.

There wasn’t much time left to rest before going out to dinner.

Erica did a quick rush trip down to Colonnades to pick up some knitting wool Mum was needing before we were in the car again and heading out to dinner.

We met all the direct family that we could (Jan and Ross are away and Ron was unwell) for dinner at the Duck Inn at Coromandel Valley for a nice dinner and a photo with the kids and Mum. Denise and Gary were over for the occasion (the first trip to SA in over two years).

before finally calling it a night and delivering her home again.

Not bad for a 94 year old!