The Bower Bird
“With a window open and morning light flowing through them they look alive, or as if ghosts are wearing them.
There’s a creamy Japanese embroidered jacket with flared sleeves, a large bird of paradise embroidered on the front, and flowers and gold threads running through the blues and pinks and beiges. I wonder who it was made for originally. Did an empress wear it? Or a geisha?
That’s the charm of old clothes and furniture and china, the fact that they have a past, a history, mysterious and unk...nown. We have all these ghosts surrounding us, with us every day.
I like to think that Grandpop and Grandma are keeping watch over us. Mum especially at the moment. She needs looking after: a good enough reason for me to find my Cornish family here. Okay, they aren’t actually her family, only by marriage, but they would be better than nothing. She’ll be alone in the world one day and it makes me unhappy to think of her with no one to care for her. Who knows where Alistair will be? He might go off her, like Daddy did and find a younger woman.MoreLess
There’s a creamy Japanese embroidered jacket with flared sleeves, a large bird of paradise embroidered on the front, and flowers and gold threads running through the blues and pinks and beiges. I wonder who it was made for originally. Did an empress wear it? Or a geisha?
That’s the charm of old clothes and furniture and china, the fact that they have a past, a history, mysterious and unk...nown. We have all these ghosts surrounding us, with us every day.
I like to think that Grandpop and Grandma are keeping watch over us. Mum especially at the moment. She needs looking after: a good enough reason for me to find my Cornish family here. Okay, they aren’t actually her family, only by marriage, but they would be better than nothing. She’ll be alone in the world one day and it makes me unhappy to think of her with no one to care for her. Who knows where Alistair will be? He might go off her, like Daddy did and find a younger woman.MoreLess
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