Your poem is lovely and very emotive to a gardener/lover of words like me.
Thank you Susanne and special thanks for replying.
Thanks for painting the picture of your hysterical (historical) weekend visit around Perth. Having just returned from Morocco and Spain where history is partly lovingly restored to its previous glory maybe our city fathers could take a lesson from them. When the Michael Jeffery was Governor of WA, we enjoyed dinner in the dinning room and I toured the buildings with Marlena, his wife, who tried very hard to bring back from storage beautiful pieces to put on display.
Pauleen I totally agree. As you read, I was very disappointed by the lack of proper restoration in so many of our old buildings. I’m thinking of joining the Heritage group, although today’s lot seem much stricter on what can and can’t be altered. I think the damage was done in the 1960s – 1980s, unfortunately.
I was thrilled to see your photos of Spain and that you visited some of my favourite places.
Yours and mine.
Approaching a chaotic shrine.
Some documents can be considered
to be treasured,
while some have been lost in time.
Others look like undigested chyme.
Behind my screen metres of cables
have made their home,
to build a dusty historic catacomb.
Like you on occasions, when my desk I attempt to clean,
It is amazing how much ‘new’ information I can glean.
Yes once polished and neatly redesigned
For a short time everything stays in the place
to which it has been assigned.
However it is not long
before the gremlins again run wild
and chaos reigns supreme.
Haha David. What a perfect response.I love it.
Thank you
Victoria
Hi Vicki, I enjoyed reading about you meeting your Dad after the war. If you decide to finish the story I would be pleased to buy a copy. Maybe you could come to Denmark Library again where I could have my copy signed by yourself. All the best, Glenys Richards.
Hi Glenys. Thank you for your encouraging response. I’ve been working on this for several years but I do hope to finish it, so yes, I’d love to come to the Denmark Library again and will look forward to signing a copy for you.
Occasionally I post stories here which are pieces from my past, some of which will be in the memoir, so keep watching out for them and please let me know what you think of them too.
I really appreciate feedback, especially when it’s positive like yours and being on this site means that others see it too.
Again, a big thank you.
Vicki
Well done, Vicki, on your commendations. Although I am not an avid reader, I enjoyed your writing with the snippet you provided. You are a vibrant, lovely lady, and I wish you more and more success. I might just seek further..
Thank you Pam for your very kind words.
Kind regards
Victoria
Hi Victoria,
I just finished your lovely book ‘The Green Velvet Dress’. What a delightful read, I finished it within a week! I found Jen to be a cute, sweet, genuine, relatable character and very much enjoyed it.
Thankyou,
Sharma (from Hollywood)
Dear Sharma.
As you can see, I haven’t been on my site since I had the hip replacement. I’m afraid I was totally out of action for two months, with the added restrictions of Covid and I didn’t feel like writing while so isolated and unable to get around. So, I sincerely apologise for not replying to you sooner. I didn’t even know if you and the other nurses were able to receive the book as that ward was closed when I had them delivered. I’m particularly pleased that you did and thank you for getting back to me about it. Today, I’m about to post a poem that I wrote inspired by the restrictions of isolation. It was for a competition for love themed poetry, but got nowhere, so I’m doing my own broadcasting. I hope you enjoy it.
I wonder if the other nurses received their copies? Haven’t heard from them?
Kind regards
Victoria Mizen
I enjoy reading your short stories, they always leave me wanting more.
Thank you Evelyn. That’s great to know. Inspires me to keep writing.
Your poem is lovely and very emotive to a gardener/lover of words like me.
Thank you Susanne and special thanks for replying.
Thanks for painting the picture of your hysterical (historical) weekend visit around Perth. Having just returned from Morocco and Spain where history is partly lovingly restored to its previous glory maybe our city fathers could take a lesson from them. When the Michael Jeffery was Governor of WA, we enjoyed dinner in the dinning room and I toured the buildings with Marlena, his wife, who tried very hard to bring back from storage beautiful pieces to put on display.
Pauleen I totally agree. As you read, I was very disappointed by the lack of proper restoration in so many of our old buildings. I’m thinking of joining the Heritage group, although today’s lot seem much stricter on what can and can’t be altered. I think the damage was done in the 1960s – 1980s, unfortunately.
I was thrilled to see your photos of Spain and that you visited some of my favourite places.
Yours and mine.
Approaching a chaotic shrine.
Some documents can be considered
to be treasured,
while some have been lost in time.
Others look like undigested chyme.
Behind my screen metres of cables
have made their home,
to build a dusty historic catacomb.
Like you on occasions, when my desk I attempt to clean,
It is amazing how much ‘new’ information I can glean.
Yes once polished and neatly redesigned
For a short time everything stays in the place
to which it has been assigned.
However it is not long
before the gremlins again run wild
and chaos reigns supreme.
Haha David. What a perfect response.I love it.
Thank you
Victoria
Hi Vicki, I enjoyed reading about you meeting your Dad after the war. If you decide to finish the story I would be pleased to buy a copy. Maybe you could come to Denmark Library again where I could have my copy signed by yourself. All the best, Glenys Richards.
Hi Glenys. Thank you for your encouraging response. I’ve been working on this for several years but I do hope to finish it, so yes, I’d love to come to the Denmark Library again and will look forward to signing a copy for you.
Occasionally I post stories here which are pieces from my past, some of which will be in the memoir, so keep watching out for them and please let me know what you think of them too.
I really appreciate feedback, especially when it’s positive like yours and being on this site means that others see it too.
Again, a big thank you.
Vicki
Well done, Vicki, on your commendations. Although I am not an avid reader, I enjoyed your writing with the snippet you provided. You are a vibrant, lovely lady, and I wish you more and more success. I might just seek further..
Thank you Pam for your very kind words.
Kind regards
Victoria
Hi Victoria,
I just finished your lovely book ‘The Green Velvet Dress’. What a delightful read, I finished it within a week! I found Jen to be a cute, sweet, genuine, relatable character and very much enjoyed it.
Thankyou,
Sharma (from Hollywood)
Dear Sharma.
As you can see, I haven’t been on my site since I had the hip replacement. I’m afraid I was totally out of action for two months, with the added restrictions of Covid and I didn’t feel like writing while so isolated and unable to get around. So, I sincerely apologise for not replying to you sooner. I didn’t even know if you and the other nurses were able to receive the book as that ward was closed when I had them delivered. I’m particularly pleased that you did and thank you for getting back to me about it. Today, I’m about to post a poem that I wrote inspired by the restrictions of isolation. It was for a competition for love themed poetry, but got nowhere, so I’m doing my own broadcasting. I hope you enjoy it.
I wonder if the other nurses received their copies? Haven’t heard from them?
Kind regards
Victoria Mizen
I enjoy reading your short stories, they always leave me wanting more.
Thank you Evelyn. That’s great to know. Inspires me to keep writing.