2011 - Theses - Flinders University

and Mum used to answer her back for us every week. I don’t know if she wrote back toher family. Mum burnt a lot of things. She wouldn’t have kept any. 16I looked carefully at the small images, creased and lined with a family’s musings. In onephotograph was an elderly Mrs Forbes in a hand-made felt hat, flanked by bright and blondemissionary children, and holding a cat on her lap while she smiled straight at the camera.In another, in sepia tones and with white creases across it, a young Mrs Forbes in a whiteshirt and skirt with a grey hat as she stood beside her taller husband Jack, who wore a whitehat over his dark face and a cardigan done up over a white shirt and black pants. In front ofthem were their two boys, young Jack in the light and his younger brother Raymond in theshade. Behind them was a wall of leaves: a bough shed or camp.15