Parades

Grannis lived in a house which had a high fence and was opposite the old museum. Parades would go past the front of the house and people would sit on the fence to get a good view. Grannis tied a hat pin to a stick and would walk along on her side of the fence poking the people's bottoms with the hat pin.

One eyed pony

Grannis had a one eyed pony. She would practice jumping out of the tree onto its back. She was upset that she couldn't take it with her to boarding school.

Koala

When Grannis was a girl she had a baby koala that she kept in a sugar bag and fed with bread and milk and sugar - the koala would sit in the bowl when it was eating.

Grannis had a scooter which she rode to the shop to buy barley sugar in long ropes. The koala would eat the barley sugar by sitting on its bottom and holding it in its back legs.

During WW1 the soldiers had a camp near Grannis' house and she thinks one of them stole the koala. But she thinks the koala probably died because they wouldn't have been able to feed it properly. Her father would take the sulky out each day to collect gum leaves for the koala.

Grannis at Boarding School

There was a plum tree with fruit that the students had been forbidden to pick. In order to obey Grannis climbed out of the window, onto the tree and nibbled around the fruit, leaving the stalk hanging on the tree with the seed attached - so she didn't actually 'pick' the fruit.

Remembered by Anne.