Granddad and the mountain
I was young and visiting granddad he lived in Moonah town in Tasmania and near Hobart where the yachts came in after a race quite grand Well every day outside the front door a mountain was in clear view Granddad said it was Mt Wellington named after a duke or two! So each day as the front door opened he would greet the mountain and bow When I asked him why he greeted it , he told me with a smile That he wanted the mountain to stay there and if it knows I like it it may never duck off. Well one day the door was opened and I could see that the mountain was gone, I got quite upset and asked granddad why the mountain had gone away, he told me perhaps it’s not gone for every perhaps it will come back today. He told me that if I called it it might return before lunch, so I stood out the front in the cold calling Mt Wellington back. Then grandma said lunch was ready so I had to go inside, but I hoped the mountain would return for granddad looked rather sad. The moment that lunch wa...