GUTSY GRANNY I started surfing at 75!
Happy Birthday, Mum!’ said my daughter, Angela, then 43, at our 2017 Christmas lunch.
With my birthday on Christmas Eve, we usually have a big celebration.
And for my 75th birthday, she handed me a voucher for basket-making lessons, a hobby I’d wanted to pick up.
‘Thank you, Angie,’ I said.
A year earlier, I’d retired after working for decades in the vineyard my husband Angelo and I established together in 1981.
