A Grave Day

3 October - Friday

Very hot morning, 28 degrees, before a typical Melbourne change after lunch and a drastic drop in temperature with rain.

We started the morning with another attempt to locate my maternal grandmother's grave at the Damdenong Cemetery. My previous attempt had given me the section and grave number, but as we didn't have a plan of the cemetery, our first call was to the administrative centre at the Springvale Cemetery. A rather ill-informed your lady told us that the graves were all numbered and there weren't any plans available. So off to Dandenong and the discovery that the graves are not numbered and if there is no headstone, there is no hope of working out which is the actual grave. So it was to Springvale and a more determined effort to see a plan. The same girl was quite happy to go and photocopy a copy of the non-existent plan, complete with the names of the "residents." Back to Dandenong and very quickly worked out where Kitty is buried. After months of effort, it was nice to finally have a positive outcome.

The remainder of the day we spent undertaking a little retain therapy.