Granny! I've been reading your blog and you're wrong about Rusty and Lily's age. You said they were coming 12 this year and they're not! They're the same age as me. Twelve!
My oldest granddaughter did not use these exact words at the supper table this evening but that is roughly what she said.
I tried to tell her that the pigs were a bit younger than her and that my blog was not always precisely factual. After all, within my posts, I've often given an impression that I love my grandchildren and that I think they're great.
Granny!
I called her a pedant. We brought down the Oxford Concise and looked it up - a person who is excessively concerned with minor detail. Oldest grandchild to a tee.
It's not even fair. Sure I barely even know what age I am. Birthdays come round so fast these days. But after they'd gone I went to my Kunekune file to see what I could find out. A whole big book in there regarding the Declaration of Movement of Pigs. Yet they've only moved once in their lives, from Knockloughrim to Cullybackey. Their birth certificates were in there as well. Turns out that Martha was right. They are twelve. Or was she right?
According to their birth certificates Sperrin Awakino I (Rusty) and Sperrin Tutaki II (Lily) were born on the 24th April, 2010. When I posted (on 15th March) that they would be twelve this year they were still eleven. Who is the pedant now? Granny!
When this photograph was taken Rusty and Lily were eleven months old and Martha was eighteen months.
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