Dear Joanne, I came across your website while searching my family name (maiden) recently. When I read about your residency in Taiwan I realised that you must be the relative an aunt in Ireland told us about – married to a cousin. My uncle emigrated to Manchester when I was a child and I haven’t met those cousins since. I myself came to London years ago.
It has been interesting reading about your paper boat project and I have a couple of boats for you. One is an A4 printout of a photo I took in the glasshouse of the Royal Horticultural Gardens at Wisley near where I live. As it is a ‘boat’ containing beautiful flowers it seems appropriate.
The mini picture above helps to show that. I painted the other side with acrylics to match the flowers.
I made the other boat by printing a photo of the bark of a Scots pine tree at the end of my garden. Being wood it is a suitable material but with the added bonus of the name! Then, I lined the inside by pasting yellow tissue paper on the reverse side – yellow being my favourite colour. It conjures up the rising sun and is a warm and welcoming colour; good to imagine those people being welcomed in New Zealand In the nineteenth century.It has been interesting reading about your paper boat project and I have a couple of boats for you. One is an A4 printout of a photo I took in the glasshouse of the Royal Horticultural Gardens at Wisley near where I live. As it is a ‘boat’ containing beautiful flowers it seems appropriate.
The mini picture above helps to show that. I painted the other side with acrylics to match the flowers.The ‘golden’ boat’ is made from wrapping paper double layered. I include it to wish you good fortune in raising money for Mary-Ann’s cottage.
The sailing route starts on the River Wey in Surrey; this joins the River Thames and on out to the North Sea!
With best wishes Loretto Cloud (nee Kaar)
I photographed my husband, Joe Kaar holding the paper boats!
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