The Bassett family site
Sometime after our original Puss passed away, we felt that we needed another cat to console us, and found a little mostly black playful bundle at a local vet. We named her Mischief. Sadly, after only a very short period with us, she was snatched out of Reen’s arms by the somewhat psychotic blue cattle …
We have been blessed with seven grandchildren: (in age order) All are strong, healthy, exuberant and loving and we love the time—in greater or smaller amounts—that we are able to spend with them.
Charlize Therese Keane Charlie is: Despite all of this she still not completely sure what she wants to be when she grows up 😏 Charlie’s artwork
Reen suggested we try adding a relevant Scripture verse to our panoramas, not sure how it will work out… Rain rolls In, Bay of Martyrs, VIC. September 2025 Curtis Falls, Mt Tamborine, QLD. June 2026 This one’s for Reen so I did her two options to choose from; first one… …and the second one. Gostwyck …
We’re trying something new! We’ve been trying to work out what to put in a couple of blank spaces on the CARDIS walls, and have hit on the idea of printing out a couple of our nicer (in our eyes) photos as panoramic prints. In the next few weeks we’ll try one of them, and …
Explore our family’s history through 25+ years of Christmas cards and letters: 1990s 2000—2019 2020—
Brad and Nyssa owned Pandora, a black oriental, and gave her to us in 2013. Sadly, she was always somewhat unwell and died of leukaemia in 2015.
I’ve realised that our (my) memory isn’t what it was and the timing and sequence of events sometimes gets a little blurry over time. This post summarises some key dates/events starting from our decision to “retire’ (at the bottom of the page) with links to other relevant posts as appropriate. Jump down to the start …
…all totally unrelated so far as we know! This page is a collection of pictures and links to all sorts of other Bassetts both in Australia and around the world—as noted above, none are any direct relation so far as we know (although there’s a number of them we wouldn’t mind knowing a little better!). …
When Nyssa allowed her Balinese blue-point Periwinkle (usually just Peri) to have kittens to Thor, Jacko’s blue-point British Short-Hair, in July 2023 the grandkids decided that it was *imperative* that Grandma have one of them—as Sienaar was Grandpa’s kitty and it just wan’t at all fair that Grandma didn’t have a cat of her own …