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21.01.2022 The Lily Year would make a wonderful read over the Christmas and the New Year. Stock available at Crow Books East Vic Park and Millpoint Book Caffe South Perth (Western Australia ). Also online or direct from the author - I may even be able to drop a copy off in Perth WA. Visit my web page !

12.01.2022 My Aunty Gay’s funeral was today, Wednesday, 16 January. She was due to come over to me for morning tea with my mum and cousin but was taken ill on New Year’s Day and died the next day. I read a speech and shared this poem at the funeral. MORNING TEA We’re going to have morning tea,... my mum, my aunt, my cousin and me. We’ll sit in the garden, have tea in the garden, under the shade of the Jacaranda tree, its leaves casting patterns of shadow and shine. I’ll tie up that head of plumbago with twine and clean up the bird baths, get rid of the slime. I’ll put up the parasol, make sure they have shade, and offer a choice: tea, wine, lemonade? The scones that I seemed to spend all the night making sit proud on a plate; my attempt at fine baking went according to plan. I’ll serve them with cream and some strawberry jam. She’ll love being here, my aunty, I know it, under the tree with the table below it, set with the simple things that she likes best. (I told her, Bring Ollie! He’s also a guest!) I’ll sweep up the leaves, remove the dead mouse, banish the cobwebs festooning the house. It will all be so pretty, as clean as can be, when aunty comes over to have morning tea. But the bird baths are stagnant, the water still green. The leaves are unswept, the tree never seen. The drooping plumbago is still without twine. The fridge holds a bottle of unopened wine. The tea cups are empty. The table is bare. The garden stands silent. Nobody is there. I should have met aunty at our morning tea but we met in the evening, my aunty and me. I said my goodbyes and then I went home and ate a whole plateful of freshly-baked scones.

10.01.2022 The number of likes and shares in response to Morning Tea has been heart-warming. My poem evidently touched a chord. Thank you to everyone. Linda

08.01.2022 PUBLISHERS - I am looking for a publisher to re-publish my first novel The Lily Year and publish my second novel Blue Sunflowers. I have a third novel in progress. Please visit my web site or contact me at [email protected]

07.01.2022 Useful links for L H Anderson, author of The Lily year. http://www.lhanderson.com.au/ https://plus.google.com/107320985872458740903 https://www.facebook.com/lhandersonAU/ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15184120.L_H_Anderson https://store.bookbaby.com/book/The-Lily-Year

04.01.2022 The block on the corner of Kent and Berwick Street is now for sale. The house is long gone and so is the lemon tree. Strange to think that the old lady will never know I wrote about her and that she lives on in the opening chapter of a book. CHAPTER 1 On the corner of Kent Street and Berwick Street there was an old weatherboard house.... I used to see the old lady who lived in it out in her garden. It wasn’t much of a house. It wasn’t much of a garden, just a patch of scrawny lawn, barely green for five minutes in spring and then yellow and straw-like for the rest of the summer. There wasn’t much for her to do other than to keep it trimmed or spray the single lemon tree that stood against the fence. Once she had her arm in a sling and I wondered how she had done it and how she managed. Then I didn’t see her for a while, until one day bulldozers came in and demolished the house and chewed up the garden until only the lemon tree remained.