In her quiet kitchen she remembered Roger’s lavender bouquets and evening runs on the beach.
North Family scrap album: Page 21, of flower scraps, ca 1890
Reference Number: Eph-A-SCRAPBOOK-01-21
Birdie 26
Birdie 25
A man is so sudden, she thought.
End of the Old Miners Race at the 50th Jubilee celebrations, Gabriels Gully, May 1911
Reference Number: 1/2-111409-F
Birdie 24
The letterbox coming off its hinges. I don’t think so, she said in a loud, firm voice. Organised for survival, sound finances, even paid for the plot.
Wooden sculptures, carved by George Wakelin, in the garden of "Rose Cottage", Moroa, Wairarapa
Reference Number: 1/2-135973-F
Birdie 23
The Lyall’s wren ran as fast as a mouse. Couldn’t there be one pair left in the world, in some lonely place?
William Fox, Bird's eye view of Waitoi, 1848
Reference Number: C-013-001
Birdie 22
Walking home past the native bush she peered under branches, listening to a bellbird’s song. A sparrow hopped away through the leaves.
William Godwin, S S Storm-Bird, 1860s
Reference Number: C-059-009
Birdie 21
She took a tissue from her handbag and wiped a splash off her hand. Chicken juice, she said primly. Campylobacter.
Woman at Trentham races, 1950
Reference Number: 114/207/16-G
Birdie 20
Sound as a bell, he grinned, banging it down. There was dark liquid on the seat between them. Hell, soggy parcel, it’s the chicken.
Man and bird, 1950-1950
Reference Number: 114/138/10-G
Birdie 19
She remembered Digby with a glass in his hand on the porch of his weatherbeaten cottage. I don’t think so. Is your bottle leaking? The brown paper was stained at the bottom.
Man, outside a hut in the gum fields, holding loaves of bread, ca 1910
Reference Number: 1/1-006360-G
Birdie 18
Drop in for a cup of tea any time, he invited her.
Wooden water trough used for catching birds
Reference Number: PAColl-3039-1-001
Birdie 17
Sorry, he smiled. That was rude, nobody to talk to. I live up the street, said Doris. Nice to meet you. He was Digby’s cousin, winding things up.
Douglas MacDiarmid, John Drawbridge, 1949
Reference Number: A-135-027
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