May, 2012
When April ends it is time to shut
the doors of 56 Eden Street for the winter. We are planning to do repairs on
window sills over the coming months and the subscriptions of all the Friends of
the Janet Frame House are put towards these essential maintenance tasks.
So on behalf of the JFEST Board please accept our thanks for this very
practical and very necessary help which you give us.
The volunteers have pitched in
cheerfully with supervision of the house over the Summer Tour season and our
man Ralph is thus able to take Sundays off. He is grateful for this and sends
you all his best wishes and a page of musings about what a “writerly” place
Janet Frame’s old abode is proving to be.
Gifts from the community help to
make the house feel good about itself. The latest one is a
mustard-coloured 1940’s sofa from relatives of Janet’s in Timaru. Dale and
Allan Brooker delivered this to the house the other day and we were delighted
to accept . It fits in beautifully.
Our Trust could not achieve anything
much without the gifts of your time and your largesse and we are very grateful
to you all.
Carol Berry
Chair
Janet Frame Eden Street Trust
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