The narrow ridges of the navy blue corduroy met pleasingly in a V shape in the middle of the bib front of her new pinafore dress. She would wear it that day at the party for her eighth birthday. Her new navy-blue pinafore dress with a white blouse underneath. It was the first time she … Continue reading The Best and Worst Birthday Present
Author: suescottnz
From a rural New Zealand childhood, I headed for university, then spent much of my life in classrooms in New Zealand and around the world.
“Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.” Charles De Lint
After the War
She was on a ship. My Welsh mother. Leaving Egypt and coming to New Zealand. She wasn’t coming home and the war still had another few months to run and a few hundred thousand souls to take. She had ‘pulled strings’ she said, to leave her job as a Territorial Army Nurse, before the war … Continue reading After the War
Jennifer Rose
The lecturer droned on. The exponential rise in sheep numbers through the middle of the twentieth century, he was saying, was caused by the introduction of aerial topdressing in 1949, relatively cheap superphosphate, and high prices for meat and wool. Government subsidies helped…….but he lost me after sheep, as I recalled my own special lamb, … Continue reading Jennifer Rose
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