Image Description: A black and white landscape photograph showing a group of two girls and one boy on a pigeon keeping Outreach Project . Two girls stand to the right of the frame watching as the instructor stands behind and gently places a pigeon into the boys hands. The boy looks down at the pigeon with his hands moving to hold it.
Sandra’s son Tyler talks about the photo
Transcript
Sandra was NOT a fan of animals, as such, she was not a pet fancier of any kind.
Here we errr we’ve got the kids holding the pigeons. It was em…one of these things, I know craigmillar had a lot of pigeon huts, lot of pigeon fanciers, certainly when I was a kid, and I remember going along a handful of times, cos Sandra was taking pictures in some fashion of this group, and I yeah I remember i ended up going along, and some of the kids showed up and they’re all getting shown the pigeons…and err, to various reactions, and I just remember sorta being very cautious.
So it was…it tickles me a little bit now actually looking back at this…she wasn’t afraid to encourage kids to do things like this, challenging them to try new things – touch a pigeon! Something she would have been a little shy in doing herself, because she did NOT like animals.
I had, it must have been around the same age – 7 or 8 maybe? Probably a little bit older, when I had my first err I ended up with one gerbil, for I dunno, a few months maybe before it died. It was sickly, it died, but it was very adamant that Sandra didn’t want anything to do with it. Didn’t like, didn’t like, barely liked having it in the house!