Page 20 - Gwen Landsberry - Memories Memento for Family

Typical Mum: a soft pink or pastel top and bottle green tartan trousers, a sheer pastel floral scarf at
her neck as always looped around and tied in the ‘Gwennie’ way, small gold and pearl earrings with
often a matching gold chain around her neck and the scent of Imari cream perfume always lingering
on her body and in her home. Mum, baking in the kitchen when I arrive each week, or sweeping up
leaves in the back yard or gutters out front, or arranging pink geraniums and tiny roses in a vase for
the middle of the table with people due for lunch or dinner, or perhaps to stay over. Mum, sitting
on the front verandah with a cuppa, chatting with passing neighbours or any passers-by at all, or
dozing in her chair watching tele out the back, or perhaps just popping down to Claire’s, over to
Anne’s, down the street, up to church or High Street Markets or to ‘Chatsy’. Always on the go my
Mum, always doing, fixing, cooking, sewing, cleaning, helping. Always ready to ‘go with the flow’.
Always a smile. Always kindness. Love her forever.

“I’ve never been clever like the boys. Mary was clever too.
I was just good with my hands.”

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