John Makita
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219 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 31 Aug
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I spent a phenomenal amount of time with them.
Whenever I was sick or during the school holidays, I would always go to my grandparents.
And so I have very fond memories of both my grandparents, more so my grandmother, because my grandfather would always go to work in the morning.
He worked in the family carpentry business.
But even on the weekends when I'd see him or if I was sick, you know, he was always quite jovial, always a bit of a joker with us kids and always very, very kind.
But my grandmother to me was the most important person in my life.
I listened to everything that she said.
I took her advice and, you know, she really cared for everybody in the family.
She was the matriarch of our family.
And it was, yeah, it was terrible when suddenly she just disappeared from being that person for everybody in the family.
They were generous.
They loved their community.
They loved going out.
You know, some of the fond memories that I have with my grandparents was, especially when I was there on school holidays, was when I was sick, when they lived in Red Hill.
It was, we'd go down at lunchtime or in mid-morning to the local shops and my grandmother would buy myself and if my brother was with me something sweet to eat and we'd always get a toy or something.
But we always had to be back home at lunchtime for Bold and the Beautiful and Days of Our Lives.
And she'd make us the big victory sandwich and sit us down and sort of like say, shh, okay, no talking now for the next hour and a half.
And it doesn't matter if anybody rang on the telephone, they were all ignored because that was the time for Marlena and Stephen and the others.
So it's those sort of memories that you remember the most.
And, of course, her cooking.
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