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An hour with Helen Garner.

Posted on November 24, 2012 by RosieL

It was the lighting that did it. Helen Garner looked too old to be Helen Garner. Every now and then, when she tilted her chin upward, she looked like herself. But they were brief and unheralded moments. I had wanted … Continue reading →

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Ploughing.

Posted on September 9, 2012 by RosieL

Once upon a time, and for a long time, I lived in a village. For a lesser, but also long time, I worked there. It was a proper village, too, plopped down in the countryside, with spires on the hill … Continue reading →

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The seven hour sit.

Posted on February 22, 2012 by RosieL

Seven hours in the waiting room. Sitting in a chair not eating, drinking, taking painkillers. Not going for a walk. That’s what it took to get into surgery. The room was crowded and then emptied before my turn. Every … Continue reading →

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It’s that time again.

Posted on December 30, 2011 by RosieL

The reflections of the year that’s about to pass are all around. News, pictures, stories, tragedies, disasters, events. What was news makes news again. Lest we forget. I look at the year I’ve just lived and see, easily in my … Continue reading →

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Reading in the day time.

Posted on December 2, 2011 by RosieL

One day, long ago and in my youth, I went to collect a bed that had been stored with the daughter of a woman I worked with. We arrived at the appointed time in the morning and the woman, young, … Continue reading →

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The nook book.

Posted on November 11, 2011 by RosieL

It was a Saturday afternoon and I was striding down Fifth Avenue. (That’s such a fine sentence with which to start a blog post, isn’t it?) My first full day to myself . I’d been out and about since early … Continue reading →

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I and I

Posted on September 11, 2011 by RosieL

Half of me works, avoids the wheels as they fall off the organisation, goes to meeting upon meeting upon meeting of restructure, and deals with people of power who are a few sandwiches short. The other half dreams and schemes … Continue reading →