some of her etchings and bunches
of flowers on a cloth on the street
between the car park and Marktstraat.
So she had some self-earned money
next to the sizable alimony of the owner
of the riding school, her ex-husband.
All by herself she had converted a hen house
somewhere in the river dunes between Alverna
and Heumen into her home and workshop.
Although Paul was sure that he would
take up a study, presumably astronomy,
in another city, he had surprised everybody
and the last moment, chosen for the study
human geography in Nijmegen. Norma and he
were going to live in the wooden caravan
where Norma's mother lived in during the
rebuilding. The caravan stood under a
walnut tree next to the former hen house.
