aunt julia

• 'aunt julia spoke Gaelic very loud and very fast'
• 'i could not answer her- i could not understand her'
• 'she wore mens boots when she wore any'
• 'paddling with the treadle of the spinning wheel'
• 'while her right hand drew yarn marvelously out of the air'
• 'she was buckets and water flouncing into them'
• 'she was winds pouring wetly round house ends'
• 'by the time i had learned a little she lay silenced'
• 'but i hear her still, welcoming me with a seagulls voice;
• 'getting angry, getting angry with so many questions unanswered'