It’s been a while since I’ve dropped an elephant. I would do it occasionally, in memory of my Granny. I’d buy a little elephant … keep it for a bit… then take it away with me wherever I was going… and drop it and have a wee think about my Granny.

Today, the 22/9/22 would have been her 107th birthday, and she was 65 when I was born. She passed away aged 87, in 2002, and not only did she leave her special elephant to my Mum, that eventually made its way to me… it was December time when she passed away and if sent her a Christmas present she hadn’t had a chance to open as she passed away on the 13th December.

So I had sent her a little white elephant for her Christmas, bought from papyrus on Byres road, but she never got a chance to open it. So I opened it and put it down on the coffin with her. San Diego, Wick, Lochaline, Benderloch, Glasgow, Chicago, Tenerife and many many more places. Now there will be one in Calpe Spain too.

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Then many times, I’ve bought little elephants and dropped them all over the world… and stopped to have a think about her and what she’d have thought of me and my life.

My Granny didn’t like hot weather, and she would have struggled in this 30’C heat… she maybe would have suggested I don’t waste my money on all these elephants… but the one I got today was just €2.99 / about £2.50.

I wonder what my Granny would have thought of Brexit, Coronavirus and the pandemic and the sh!t storm that’s following. I know for sure she would have been into the last few weeks and the coverage of the Queen’s mourning period.

My Granny went to the Queens garden party in 1974 with my Grandad, and then 48 years later, this year, my brother his wife and daughter went too. That was cool.

She was a special lady, and I often think of her – when I see elephants and rainbows. No rainbows today, but plenty elephants and thoughts. And a palindromic date too 22/9/22 hee hee.

Another elephant dropped, in memory of Margaret McKenzie Fletcher 22/9/1915 – 13/12/2002.