A wonderful quality of Ann is her ability to forgive. She can be mad as mad can be one minute, forgive you, then be as happy as Larry the next.

We used to have a rather dopey Labrador called Brutus. His nickname was Stupid, rightly so. As a part of his morning routine he would walk his well worn trail through Mum’s garden. Mum would see him through the kitchen window and yell at him “Out of the garden … aaargh!!!” He’d sheepishly walk out and give a sort of “sorry” look.

But then Mum would line his kennel with a warm blanket the next day. Which of course Brutus would tear apart and she’d give him the rounds of the table again. But then the next night, Mum would give him a big bone! Which he’d bury in the garden and the cycle would continue!

One of Ann’s favourite places is the first chair lift ride of the day at Falls Creek.

Mum used to always love the ride up in the morning especially when it was snowing. She’d always remark on how peaceful it was with the snow lightly falling on us and the currawongs calling out. That all changed when we arrived at the top, where we were usually greeted by gale force winds! The calm before the storm.

Her favourite run at Falls Creek is Panorama, which has since been renamed Drovers Dream. We’d ski it all day, for 5 days straight. Here’s a link to the latest snow cam image. If you click the play button just below the image on the left it’ll cycle through the images from the past 24 hours.

Did you know that Ann can write her name left AND right handed? BTW, Ann is left handed.

Interestingly, this is not a throw back to the olden days where left handed children had their left hand tied behind their back to force them to use their right hand.