My Ramble

By Patricia Gilmour

MY RAMBLE - this is my life journey as an artist and writer and the various challenges along the way. The book will showcase artworks and writings created while on this journey.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Patricia Gilmour
• Release date: Oct 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223889151

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MY RAMBLE

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Patricia Gilmour

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GILMOUR PUBLISHING

New Zealand

October 2023

ISBN - 978-1-7386172-3-4

ISBN - 978-1-7386172-4-1

Table of Contents

I am both an Artist and Writer

Early Life

The Four Calls

Rosemary Taniwha

My Nana Rhodes

Cheryl Paikau

ISCF

Childhood Recollections

Birdcage

Horses and Ponies

Milestone Ace

Ridgeway Shamrock

Miniature Horses

Home Invasion

Anthology – Tales from Dominion Road

330 Dominion Road

Creeping Roses

Serving Time at Reno Fashions

Bell Control

My Story – Stripping at Reno Fashions

Adult Learning and Employment

Law Office

Engineers, Printing and Manufacturing Union

Birthday Death

Criminal Law Firm

Psycho Boss Lawyer

My Journey as an Artist

Samples of My Early Works

Improvements

My Best Works

Breast Cancer

Diagnosis

My Journey as a Writer

Act One

Friendship Death

Things I Cannot Say

Yearning Lost

Long Commute

Larra

Journal Entry

Not Forgotten

Writer’s Block

1.    I am both an Artist and Writer

I can call myself both and artist and a writer and am finding I have a lifetime of experiences to draw on.  I used to think that my life was boring and nobody would be interested to read about me.   I no longer believe that to be true. The more I paint and write the more ideas flow out of me. All sorts of stories and situations I have been in. With my writing in particular I often draw on personal life experiences but my writing is not limited to that. 

In most instances I write about what I know. I have lived it. Felt the rejection, sadness and loneliness. Felt unimportant, felt that I don't matter, and felt I would not be missed if I was no longer here.  The good thing is that I am here, I matter and I have stories to tell. Many many stories...

Being an artist and writer has been an ambition since childhood but was put aside as I felt it was an unreachable goal. 

My love of reading was started one Christmas when we were holidaying in Dargaville, Northland, New Zealand, at my grandparents, my mum's parents. 

As a Christmas gift I received an Enid Blyton book, Five Run Away Together.  My reaction was it was too big and I could not read it.  I remember starting to read this book, lying on a stretcher in one of the bedrooms and I could not put the book down.  Any spare moment I got I would be reading. 

Reading as a child not only improved my spelling and understanding words beyond my years. But also my vocabulary.  As a young adult one of my co-workers in a jeans factory where I was working objected to the long words I was using.

As a child I dreamed of being discovered for want of a better word, and becoming famous.  Riding my bike down the street and singing.  I also liked singing and my favourite music group was ABBA.  I had posters of ABBA on my bedroom walls, lots of posters.  I was never discovered...

2.  Early Life

Life has not been easy for me and I have had many personal challenges, though mixed in with the challenges have also been good times so generally life has been good.

I became a Christian as a teenager which had a huge impact on how I came to view my life, morals and ethics.  I was a lot happier during this time, I made friends.  Prior to this time I was quite lonely.  Even though technically I was not an only child I grew up like one as I was the only one still living at home with my parents by the age of 7.  I became an aunty around that time as my 3 siblings are so much older than I am, 10 plus years.

As a result my childhood was rather lonely.  My parents worked full time, until mum had a stroke when I was about 15.  They had their own interests, so were often not home.  I felt their hobbies were more important than I was.  They went away every year to the indoor bowling nationals.  I usually stayed at my sister Lyn’s place.  I spent half my time there and it was twice the distance to Peachgrove Intermediate where I attended so I needed to leave extra early on my bike to get to school on time. 

I had no choice what high school I went to, was in the zone for Hamilton Girl’s