Wednesday, June 17, 2009

More rooms with a view




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From memory so there are inaccuracies, here are three more views from a window.
I. in the Davuilevu compound 1963 four single women in their 20s lived in a house on a hill called Veitalacagi - three teachers and a secretary and we kind of looked after the girl's dormitory behind us. The place was hilly and always green and we could see Baker Hall, a few houses and the high school.
2. Shantiniwas - 1971 - was below the Dilkusha Orphanage and it seemed to be always green and jungly with creepers, banyan trees, bamboo and gullies.
3. In Hopetoun (Victoria) - about 1977 - our very plain house was on a corner diagonally opposite the local hospital. We had a pet turtle then - or was it a tortoise?
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Sunday, June 14, 2009

Room with a view





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I have lived in many houses over the years and thought I would try and remember the view from the dfoorway or window. There are two - a bamboo walled Fijian bure near the sea and every morning we would look out to see Vorovoro and Mali Islands. Another is from a house in Toorak, Suva where I rented a room one year. It overlooked Jubilee Hall and a mosque was opposite. The other pictures are a view from this room - where the computer is - and looking through the lounge room doorway before the trees were cut down. The coloured pictures were made some time ago and the Biro sketches this morning as I wait for some sunshine to go shopping to Watson Rd shopping strip.

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