​​My Grandmother, Hilary Yvonne Holme was born 100 years ago on the 4th February 1918 in Geneva, the city where I will be playing at and adjudicating the Menuhin Competition this Spring. Her father was the Manchester-born officer, Richard Carlyle Holme who was responsible for some of the biggest artillery at the Front in France during the Great War. He wanted to receive the news about his first (and only) baby being born via the shortest possible telegram, Morse code message