‘Rosey’
By
ANITA TAVENDALE,
aged 11,
of Kaiapoi Hi, I’m a pansy called Rosey, I’m just in Mrs Spot’s garden, I get the view of seeing her have all those delicious meals with her family. One day Mrs Spot’s daughter came and cut my stalk with some scissors and my other two sisters.
Goodness, it hurt, too, some people just have no respect. Anyway we were taken inside and left on the window-sill to be dried out.
Now I was right next to the table and boy did the meals smell nice.
Suddenly I saw a glimpse of a most beautiful picture of a pansy in a garden with a fountain, but next minute my sisters and I were taken off the window-sill and stuck between plastic with a cardboard frame.
Yuck, it was stuffy. I don’t know why this girl wasn’t told off for trying to suffocate us.
Soon I got used to it, then the most thrilling thing happened. We were hung up on the wall in the living room opposite that lovely picture the girl had done me a favour, how could I thank her?
Well, anyway, I can still see the meals on the table and if I’m really lucky I get a smell of them, still.
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Press, 17 March 1987, Page 12
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