So I hobbled down to Fitzroy gardens in the freezing cold...and found this bunch of ladies...so diverse.. from an elegant Melbourne 70 years plus woman..with matching Red Beret and coat quiet and refined and dignified .. the old ex..hippy..long dangly earings..angry ex public servant..germaine greer type..but clearly had a good brain . to Senga, the photographer, organising the Ballarat foto Biannale....and we are all struggling to cope with Nancy..the eccentric, loud, woman with the sportscar, whose lived "all over the world", with weeping lipstick who sucked on her white wine while trying to get control when things got a bit erodite.."Why has Tim Winton won 4 MIles Frankiln awards ..it must be rigged??". she shrieked Twice.we were discussing Sonya Harnett at the time..but I loved it..these women have only been meeting for 1 year..so no goss about other people..no whose who..no perth minutia..
my highlght ..meeting Mary Ann Davidson..showing off her beautiful daughters' wedding photos....a calm woman ,..been in Melbourne for 15 months.. She arrived hungry and ordered sauasages and mash and a glass of wine.. ( found out later she'd been to mass) an ex social worker, who became a library teacher..and a neighbour.. a coffee after book club..we talked about family, spiruality, life as a wife. isolation.. and what it offers..a fter living in a tight community...A New Best friend..??I felt connect..she had time as did I ..not a quick "meeting" between meetings..
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