These were supposed to be countries of romance<\/p>\n
Of beauty of the richness of life<\/p>\n
But they descended into countries of sorrow and hate<\/p>\n
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Why have you printed that on your canvas Maude<\/p>\n
It is for the summer exhibition Emily<\/p>\n
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I rather like it<\/p>\n
You are very kind Julia<\/p>\n
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Do you think it will be accepted<\/p>\n
I hope so as I do hate competition<\/p>\n
It is all rather vulgar<\/p>\n
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Have you ever visited any of those countries Maude<\/p>\n
Yes many years ago to visit the grave of my grandmother<\/p>\n
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I did not know that she was buried out there<\/p>\n
Yes she is buried in Cambodia<\/p>\n
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She married a French chap and travelled there in 1931<\/p>\n
But their farm failed for various reasons and then Rene died<\/p>\n
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But my grandmother stayed on with my mother and her brother<\/p>\n
They almost starved and sometimes killed wading birds for food<\/p>\n
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Her son went almost native and vanished for long periods<\/p>\n
But my mother stayed at her side ignoring many offers of marriage<\/p>\n
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Sadly my grandmother slowly lost her mind and one day just faded away<\/p>\n
She was buried near the remains of her farm next to her husband<\/p>\n
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My mother returned to England soon afterwards and married Daddy<\/p>\n
And when I was old enough she showed me her journal<\/p>\n
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These were supposed to be countries of romance<\/em><\/p>\n Of beauty of the richness of life<\/em><\/p>\n But they descended into countries of sorrow and hate<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are not my words but my mothers words<\/p>\n They are beautiful words which I cannot match<\/p>\n However I am an artist and will share my mothers thoughts<\/p>\n She is happy for me to do so as she was happy about my travelling<\/p>\n Her journals have suddenly become illuminated she has told me this<\/p>\n Amongst all the sad days there were many happy days<\/p>\n In a way I am glad that she never witnessed the awful wars<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Will you return Maude<\/p>\n I doubt it<\/p>\n I have paid my respects to my grandparents<\/p>\n I have shared my mothers early years<\/p>\n I am an artist or at least I hope I am<\/p>\n That I think is enough<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What are you going to call your work<\/p>\n Indochine<\/p>\n I have considered no other title<\/p>\n <\/p>\n MFW<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" These were supposed to be countries of romance Of beauty of the richness of life But they descended into countries of sorrow and hate Why have you printed that on your canvas Maude It is for the summer exhibition Emily I rather like it You are very kind Julia Do you think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11374,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11371\/revisions\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}