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Dedicated care and love but with little reward
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May 14, 2021 12.02am
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Credit:Illustration: Jim Pavlidis
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Dedicated care and love but with little reward
Last week my wife, who is in aged care, messed herself while trying to sit on the toilet. A carer was called and I watched as the young woman bagged the clothes, with kind words calmed my wife, washed her and then dressed her in clean clothes. The bathroom had to be washed down. Throughout this unpleasant job, the woman – from a foreign country and on the lowest pay – did her work cheerfully and with great compassion.
The exhibition will open at 6pm on Monday with a talk by Pam Saunders, who has curated the exhibition together with volunteers. “Pam has been with us for over 40 years, and has a wonderful knowledge of the textiles collection here, which is huge compared to any other provincial museum collection,” Austin said.
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Some of the vintage swim hats that will form part of a new display at the Marlborough Museum. “I think it s partly because Marlborough people just had an instinct not to throw anything away. A lot of the things that might not have survived in other areas, have somehow been squirrelled away with the collection here.