definitely a person worth memorializing, Max. i hope you do ask
sometime...
Doug
On 17-Apr-07, at 11:24 PM, cooee wrote:
> Now she's seventy, she enjoys
> recalling certain moments
> when she was young.
> Early years in Egypt?
>
> 'My birthday party - picture this:
> we English girls on camels
> on a race around the Pyramids.
> Yes, and the Sphinx.
>
> Boarding school in Salisbury -
> very strict discipline.
> But after class, senior girls were free
> to cycle for miles on the Plain.
>
> Stonehenge - we propped
> our bikes on the stones -
> open and deserted but for us.
> Another age, it seems.'
>
> I waited for a third -
> the Acropolis?
> The talk swerved elsewhere.
> Another time, I'll ask.
>
>
> Max Richards
> Doncaster, Victoria
>
> Wednesday 18 April 2007
>
>
>
Douglas Barbour
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lipsynching awe all the way to the grave of the unknown onus:
memory stutter; one smidgen, one scantling of thank.
Dennis Lee
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