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About Peggy

Posted on May 23, 2013 by eloiseoxer

I first met Peggy at the Cumberland Nursing home, in Wheelers Hill, almost three years ago. I was singing Edith Piaf’s La Vie en Rose with a small group in the loungeroom of the high-care residence when a beautifully dressed and uncannily birdlike woman wheeled herself in and quietly sat at the very periphery of […]

Posted in About the elders | Tagged Billie Holiday, Cumberland Nursing Home, Edith Piaf | Leave a comment

Peggy, La Vie en Rose

Posted on May 22, 2013 by eloiseoxer

  When Peggy’s husband left her with three little children in the late 40s she sold everything she had and bought a terrible little house in Aspendale. They had been living as a family in Melbourne, she was an Essendon girl – born and bred – but she’d spent holidays as a child in Aspendale […]

Posted in Stories | Tagged Aspendale, Brashs, Edith Piaf, French chansons | Leave a comment

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