GARMENTS
While gazing into her wardrobe she realised how many lovely garments she had, and then, how few of them she wore.
Some of the pieces she’d owned for over twenty years, and they would be good for another twenty. Some pieces had been her absolute favourites for a time until a small mark or a […]
BLUE EYES
He was a big man, tall and solid from a lifetime spent amid lofty timber, with the wind in his face and tools held easily in his big knobbly hands. That was all a while ago of course. These days he was too important to get out into the bush for anything more […]
CROISSANTS
My teenage years were increasingly dominated by my knees. First one then the other dislocated and left me plastered, bandaged and on crutches for 6 weeks at a time with all the inconveniences and embarrassments that this entailed.
Both times the dislocations were dynamic. Once I swung a sack up onto a pile. I didn’t […]
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