“We’ve got a ferret this morning,” sighed my manager as she started clearing papers to make room for our meeting. Actually it was a common polecat – a stuffed one, scowling down from a podium, showing its teeth.
Bronwyn and I had a lot to discuss – library acquisitions, lighting issues, upcoming exhibitions – and we quickly forgot the animal, until the very end of the meeting when I looked up and saw a woman’s grinning face and a polecat’s scowling face weirdly juxtaposed.
I said: “I’m still new enough to find this unusual.” Bronwyn said: “what?”
Photo: Philip Thiel Source: Museum Victoria
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