Traditional style flash drawing of a woman with bobbed curls, a red striped headscarf with a feather, red cheeks and lips, and a pearl necklace, shown on a gold background.

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Traditional flapper head with red headscarf and feather

Traditional · Colour · Flash

A painted illustration of a woman's face and upper shoulders in a bold traditional style, with heavy black outlines. She wears a red and dark red striped headscarf fastened with a feather and a dark circular ornament, and has bobbed, curled black hair at the sides. Smooth shading and strong red blush and lip colour sit against a warm gold background, with a pearl necklace at the bottom edge.

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Aunt Loveday arrived at Hollin Farm in the second week of January with two trunks, a gramophone wrapped in a blanket, and a red silk turban she wore even indoors. Mother said she had come to make herself useful. Nobody believed it, least of all the hens, who stopped laying the week she arrived.

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She would not wear wellingtons. She crossed the yard in her good shoes, heels clicking on the frozen ruts, and each morning she pinned the brown feather to the scarf with its black jet button and told Dad the mud was beneath her. He found this funny for about a fortnight.

The snow came on the Tuesday and shut the lane. We were three days cut off with paraffin lamps and a sack of potatoes, and on the third night Loveday taught me the Charleston in the cow shed, the lantern swinging, her hem dusted with straw. She said a woman should dance on whatever is trying to bury her. I did not understand it until the thaw, when the lane reopened and a car came up it with a man in a grey coat asking for her. She had already gone, leaving the gramophone and the turban folded on my bed with a note: keep the feather, it has seen worse.

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