The Wardrobe
Back up vocals of the flist, behold my task. This
Holds these, and so much, much more.
Gran Su wasn't a hoarder. It seems much worse than that. She was a secret (closet !! JK) librarian/archivist/historian and so everything is cataloged and organized and you'd feel like an absolute heel throwing anything away without looking at it. There are all these military medals, for instance, from World War 1 and World War 2, that must have belonged to her father, brother, or this other guy named Kirke. Remember all those people who died in 1949? She got everything from all those people -- her brothers, sister, parents, and others. And by everything, I do mean everything. Dad's taking care of the storage unit and he's enlisted some folks from a local historical society. Me? I get the wardrobe. It's huge. It's cool in a huge, old fashioned way. There are animals on it and you'd swear they follow you around. Really. But it's not creepy. It's sort of nice, really, warm, like they care about you, which sounds completely crazy but isn't at all. Which is good since my tiny little bed is in the same room with the wardrobe.
And I figured out who pluMMerpolly1949 is, was!! Whatever. Miss Polly Plummer was one of the people who died in 1949 along with Gran Su's family. Gran Su got all her stuff! Those files on the top shelf are all hers, photos and documents and journals and notes and things. So, I opened up one of the photo files and look what fell out.
I don't know if Miss Polly Plummer is in the picture or if she took it, but I think she was a suffragist and Gran Su and her sister, Lucy, were very good friends with Polly. Polly was maybe 50 when she died in 1949? or 60? I haven't found an obituary or anything yet. I'm sure it's here. This means we have the lives of two old women to sort through, Gran Su and Polly.
Updated: "Kirke" is Professor Digory Kirke and was Polly and Gran Su's friend. Dad says that Gran Su and sibs were evacuated to Digory's home when bombs were falling on London during WW2. It looks like Gran Su got a lot of his stuff too, according to Dad, but it's all in the storage unit so he gets to deal with it.
Next entry, The Women's Land Army
Holds these, and so much, much more.
Gran Su wasn't a hoarder. It seems much worse than that. She was a secret (closet !! JK) librarian/archivist/historian and so everything is cataloged and organized and you'd feel like an absolute heel throwing anything away without looking at it. There are all these military medals, for instance, from World War 1 and World War 2, that must have belonged to her father, brother, or this other guy named Kirke. Remember all those people who died in 1949? She got everything from all those people -- her brothers, sister, parents, and others. And by everything, I do mean everything. Dad's taking care of the storage unit and he's enlisted some folks from a local historical society. Me? I get the wardrobe. It's huge. It's cool in a huge, old fashioned way. There are animals on it and you'd swear they follow you around. Really. But it's not creepy. It's sort of nice, really, warm, like they care about you, which sounds completely crazy but isn't at all. Which is good since my tiny little bed is in the same room with the wardrobe.
And I figured out who pluMMerpolly1949 is, was!! Whatever. Miss Polly Plummer was one of the people who died in 1949 along with Gran Su's family. Gran Su got all her stuff! Those files on the top shelf are all hers, photos and documents and journals and notes and things. So, I opened up one of the photo files and look what fell out.
I don't know if Miss Polly Plummer is in the picture or if she took it, but I think she was a suffragist and Gran Su and her sister, Lucy, were very good friends with Polly. Polly was maybe 50 when she died in 1949? or 60? I haven't found an obituary or anything yet. I'm sure it's here. This means we have the lives of two old women to sort through, Gran Su and Polly.
Updated: "Kirke" is Professor Digory Kirke and was Polly and Gran Su's friend. Dad says that Gran Su and sibs were evacuated to Digory's home when bombs were falling on London during WW2. It looks like Gran Su got a lot of his stuff too, according to Dad, but it's all in the storage unit so he gets to deal with it.
Next entry, The Women's Land Army