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Tea LeavesInside the showgrounds, the men and Alex head to the cattle judging yards and Cassie, Aunty Ida and her mum walk to the cooking and crafts pavilion. Aunt Ida’s jam sits, as Cassie knew it would, alongside a blue ribbon: ‘Best Jam of Show 1980’.
Her mother entered her jam drops and a knitted scarf, but they have not won anything. She pretends she doesn’t care and Cassie wishes she saw something in her dream for her mum to win. But it doesn’t work that way.
In the schoolwork pavilion, children from around the district have their writing and pictures displayed behind glass cases. Cassie’s handwriting is there, alongside Natalie’s, which has won second prize. Alex has won first prize for his picture of the pink hills with a fence running up the side and dark clouds in the sk
