Memorial to Tanya Burr, killed 15 September 2002

Aged eight months to one year

'Raggedy Ann' (Tanya) and Uncle Russell (then 17), January 1982

Under the table without the help of booze - February 1982

From left: Pam, Jamie, Tanya and Grandpa start the process of doing over Paul and Karen's house in Geraldine Crescent, PN, in March 1982, while they were on their honeymoon. By the time we left, the whole property resembled a spider's web of Allflex eartag stamping tape.

On 8 October 1980, when I was three months pregnant with Tanya, a car failed to obey the right hand rule at Ashhurst, and cashed into the side of my mother's Triumph car (above) which I was driving along Napier Road bound for Hastings. As a result the Triumph rolled three times and became a write-off. Never one to leave a 'good' car to the wrecker, Grandpa Burr - who was noted for such overly sentimental things - bought it back cheaply from the insurance company and converted it to perhaps the world's first and only Triumph ute. The new improved version was (and remains) a genetically engineered mix of a Triumph, a Peugeot, a Humber Hawk and a Ford Zephyr. 

Above: Checking out the resurrected Triumph 2000 in April 1982. Below: Grandpa and Grandma Burr by the Triumph - which might well have been the world's only Triumph ute.