As a child I would curiously flick through my mum and dad’s photo albums looking at the sepia and black and white memories my parents had accumulated before I had been added to the drooping branches of our family tree. One of my favourite images was of mum at around age 3, pictured with her best friend Dorothy Leonard [nee Timmins]. Dorothy, with her adorably chubby cheeks, is smiling happily, but mum seems less sure of the situation. Perhaps due to the fact that she’d been made to wear what appears to be a medieval, cardinal’s skull cap. Mum is bookended in the picture by another friend Joan Ferguson, who appears to be just holding the top half of a doll. Given the picture was taken in the midst of the Great Depression, it’s possible that the bottom half of the doll was given to her sister so that they both had something with which to play.
Wowza! What a joy to read, and what treasures, eh? (Margaret and the autograph book.) We absolutely loved the show last night - as much as we did a year ago. Our friends were blown away, too. (June used her two tissues wisely: one for tears of joy and the other for tears and snot of grief.) Thanks for the joy, hilarity and love you bring to the world. ❤️
A life hardly lived, yet not forgotten.
Wowza! What a joy to read, and what treasures, eh? (Margaret and the autograph book.) We absolutely loved the show last night - as much as we did a year ago. Our friends were blown away, too. (June used her two tissues wisely: one for tears of joy and the other for tears and snot of grief.) Thanks for the joy, hilarity and love you bring to the world. ❤️