Mads turned 5 yesterday. She celebrated with her German kinda friends in Frankfurt but at least we got to see her on Skype in her sparkly silver party dress. Have a great year being funf Mads.
I found myself thinking about Mrs Rutledge, our bigoted, anti-Catholic neighbour when I was growing up. How she would have hated the canonisation of Mary MacKillop! The extent of the media coverage over the last few days has been astounding and all but the truest of true believers must be heartily sick of it by now. Mrs Rutledge would have died of apoplexy had she not done so already.
Everyone but Mrs Rutledge loved Mary because she was an Aussie who became famous. We stood up and cheered just as we would for a Wimbledon champion or Olympic gold medallist. Fitzroy claimed her as theirs because she was born in Brunswick Street and Penola claimed her because she opened her first school there. Even the Scots tried to claim her because her parents were born in Scotland. Don’t they know most Australians have parents born overseas? Get your own saint, Scotland.
