Inspirational woman

https://www.theguardian.com/educatio...y-her-students


Please don't derail this thread Malcolm just because the lady was Scottish.

Wonderful woman deserves remembering.

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There are many, many unsung heroes, men & women, that don't get mention.
It's nice to see some are remembered.

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No need for that comment very Nasty.

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That's very true which is why I like to see them remembered sometimes. Must have taken great bravery to do what she did.

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'Auntie' Myra Gallienne is my unsung heroine. She was employed by father who ran a very successful horticultural business. When I was two in 1952 I was outside walking up our long drive to look at a horse and cart parked beside one of our fields, which my father rented out to a farmer and his wife. They were both on the cart about to go home, I believe, when a low flying aircraft spooked the horse and it bolted in my direction. Auntie Myra (4' 8" in height), hearing the commotion as she was packing tomatoes in the packing shed, ran towards me and the bolting horse, picked me up and ran towards the house. We both fell through the backdoor as my mother opened it just as the horse and cart passed us with inches to spare. It was stopped by a high granite wall at the end of the drive.

I was more upset because I wet my pants in the commotion than the incident with the horse! The horse couldn't be calmed down so my father shot it.

The farmer and his wife had fallen through the shafts of the cart, they had been run over, but the farmer never got over the shock and died about three moths later of a heart attack.

Without the extreme bravery of 'Auntie' Myra I wouldn't be here today to tell the tale. She is going to celebrate her 100th birthday next year and has all her marbles in good order. I phone her every month or so and tell her I will be very cross if she doesn't make her 100th birthday (she loves me saying that ). I have asked her what she plans to do on the day and have suggested sky diving and swimming with sharks, like that South African lady did when she celebrated her 100th birthday a year or two back. 'Auntie Myra is considering it!

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She must have been quick, or the horse was slow?
Didn't you think about jumping out of its way?

Lucky she was there.

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I was only two, and besides which I couldn't have avoid it because that area of the drive was narrow.

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Very happy she saved you tarantula, very brave thing she did.

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Sorry, I missed that bit.
Just shows that farms were and still are dangerous places for kids.

When I look back and think of what we did on my Gran's farm...

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It wasn't a farm as such then but a horticultural business, but it could be dangerous. The number of times I could have been killed during my childhood were numerous, but in those days, in my home island, health and safety was not considered.