Robert Lord and me
There is one last thing to do when leaving the Robert Lord Writers’ Cottage in Dunedin. It’s to write in ‘the book’. This is something that you are presented with at the end, rather than at the beginning of your tenure and it’s a glorious rabbit hole of remembrance from past writers to dive down.
I recognised nearly all of them and was glad that the cottage is now equipped with double glazing and a heat pump, when reading about the battle to keep warm in an Otago winter- mostly from far north authors! This was my entry, typed printed and pasted because nobody wants to try and decipher my handwriting, least of all me!