Our Little Artist

When I was a boy, I used to belong to the Sunbeamers – a club for kids that had its own page in the Sun News Pictorial newspaper in Melbourne on Saturdays. They had puzzles, colouring competitions and games that you could enter into each week. Prizes consisted of a series of different coloured certificates that represented different levels of prizes – one, two, or three points. i can’t remember how you used the certificates, but I can remember the thrill of of getting some red ones which were worth there points each.

Well, times are different, but some things still stay the same after over fifty years. Our five year old granddaughter is now a Sunbeamer and she recently had a picture titled ‘Purple Witch’ published in the paper. There may still be certificates but instead, Audrey received a five-dollar postal order as a prize. She wasn’t sure about this piece of paper that came in the mail and took a little convincing that it had some value.

IMG 0465

The other day, we bought her a little box of water colour paints and the first thing that she wanted to do was paint a portrait of her ‘Grandy’. She made Jill sit in a chair, told her to keep still and even confiscated her mobile phone so that she had her complete attention. Here’s her finished work.

IMG 0560

Bruce

Bruce is a keen traveller and photographer. This web site describes his travel and family interests

One thought on “Our Little Artist”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

Family

Christmas 2023

Well, Christmas is over and we now move on to Phase Two – eating left overs from the fridge, enjoying the quiet days between Christmas and New Year (except for the frenzy of the Post Christmas sales) and getting ready to welcome in the New Year. Our Christmas, this year, was a wonderful set of […]

Read More
Family West Australia

Goodbye to Perth

Over the last four days, we have had lots of fun exploring some more of Perth and spending time with our grandsons. I had offered to cook fish for lunch for the family on Good Friday, and if I say so myself, we had a nice meal of Barramundi in lemon cream sauce.. It was […]

Read More
Family Travel in Australia

Porepunkah – Our Last Night on This Trip

We delayed our departure from Deniliquin this morning because the local Museum opened at 10.00 am and we wanted the opportunity to see inside. This was the house in which Jill’s grandfather lived whilst he served as the Inspector of Police in the town from around 1931 to 1938. It appears that the police stopped […]

Read More