The Keeper



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THE KEEPER
by
Hermione Glissings
(Author of the Best Selling 'Too Sudden Death!')

Will it keep its secrets for ever?

Dredged up from the bottom of the lake it looks inert, dead, incommunicative.

Yet all is not as it seems.

What strange alchemy will reignite its hidden messages?

Will we learn why Archie threw his precious new type-writer away?

What letter did he write that caused Daisy to kill herself?

And what will Vernon do with his startling knowledge?

Immerse yourself in these voices from the past.

And be shocked!

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PANCAKES ANYONE?

Australia's flat as a pancake, as everybody knows!

Most of it is desert where almost nothing grows,

But statistics are deceiving! If one lives around the coast,

Steep, steep hills are features that one tends to notice most!

This view was shot by me last week quite near my grandson's school,

An area I don't visit much, not as a general rule.

The hill fell away beneath me, the river stretched-out below,

And beyond the river lay the sea, putting-on its usual show.

Then came the Stockton sand-hills where we 'grow' Hawaii's sand,

And then came some little mountains, delightful although not grand.

And all was seen from the top of a hill, that was simply high enough

To cause an elderly Grandmother to slow down a bit and puff!

This is my hometown, Newcastle, a jewel of New South Wales,

So if you just think 'pancakes' they've been feeding you fairy tales!

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