Goodbye Bugs - Agnes Julia Wale 27/03/1923 - 26/07/2009

Breast cancer affects about one in eight women in Australia. I treat patients every day with the disease, and always have hope that together we will win the battle, and life will continue as close to normal as possible.

It has been hard for all of us to watch someone you love suffer from this disease, bravely struggle through the treatment options available but slowly succumb. The inevitable occurred today, but it does not make her passing any less painful. We will miss the adventurer who travelled overseas less than 3 years ago. We will miss our walks to Tallebudgera creek and back again, visits which usually involved a plate of pikies, friands and trying to stop Grayson destroying her Wedgewood collection. Mostly, we will miss her unconditional love.

It is with a heavy heart that we write this. We are glad you are out of pain now Bugs, Mama Pikies, Agnes - but we are going to miss you. We cannot live forever, but you will always be in our hearts.

Love always
Ben, Melinda and Grayson

Long time no blog - so here is a man in a funny hat...

"Things that mummy, daddy and Grayson have done this year" by Grayson A Cook (2years and 10 months - give or take a day)

Stalked Lance Armstrong and got his autograph
Watched Wendy get married (well, mummy and daddy did)
Go to a fancy champagne dinner and stupidly agree to photo being taken which ends up in a rather prominent place in the social pages of the Courier Fail, whoops Mail. And also ends up in prominent places where mummy and daddy work...
See Coldplay and have them play less than 2 metres away from where we were sitting, even though we were well towards the back of Boondall.
Say hello to baby Clara.
Try and eat as much chocolate cake at a party as possible before being thwarted by the parental units.
Get swine flu - well, it was probably swine flu... (responded to Tamiflu)
Recover from swine flu
Watch Daddy get dressed up in a silly hat and gown, go up on stage and then come back down again. At least there were cake options available afterwards (and the blue of the Masters matched Daddy's and my eyes rather nicely).
Get up early every morning for the past few weeks to watch Tour de France highlights on the SBS website - and start planning another trip to France next year (BIG maybe)

To be continued