win a dinner for two at queenies
with her jaunty hat, polkadot shorts, and mona lisa smile, we're thinking queenie probably has a GREAT back story. what do you think it is? post your best queenie back story to win a dinner for two.
entries must be received by 5pm, 29 february 2012. dinner for two includes two entrees, two main courses, two desserts and a bottle of house wine. photo id will be required for any alcoholic beverage served in the restaurant).
queenies win a dinner for two comp entry - from lorna (received via email). don't forget you can enter via our fb page at www.facebook.com/queenies.store or comment here or send to our email queeniesstorelargsbay@gmail.com- competition closes 5pm 29 february 2012
ReplyDeleteBorn Elizabeth May Smith on the 14 May 1922 to a cook and a milk delivery man, Queenie grew up in the heart of London. She was an extremely pretty little girl but also a lonely child and loved to daydream about how different her life would be if she had been born a few miles away where the two Princesses lived. One of her favourite excursions was to go to Buckingham Palace and watch the changing of the guards. Her friends often teased her about this and it was in her early teens that they gave her the nickname Queenie.
Shortly before the outbreak of the second World War, Queenies' parents, who followed closely the politics of the day, decided at the end of 1938 that it might be prudent to send her to stay with her mother's Aunt in Australia. Queenie was 16 at the time and resented having to leave her friends and everything she knew to stay with her elderly church going spinster Aunt on the outskirts of Melbourne. She rebelled and very rapidly fell in with a "fast" crowd and, by the time she was 18, fancied herself in love with a very handsome petty criminal named Joey.
After a rather bungled attempt at robbing a bank, Joey and Queenie decided Melbourne was getting way too hot for them so they crossed the border to Adelaide and found themselves trying to scrape a living in digs in Brighton. As war progressed Joey started getting more and more ostracized because he was a young fit man out of uniform so, thinking this war really couldn't last much longer, decided it might be expedient to join the Army. Queenie was devastated but, putting on a brave face, she had her photo taken on the beach in her jauntiest polka dot shorts and sun hat so Joey would have something to remember her by.
Queenie had a terrible time for the next couple of years. She was too proud to return to her Aunt cap in hand and admit she had made a mistake. Letters from her lover arrived less and less frequently until they stopped altogether and she had long since lost touch with her parents. She eventually found herself a little job as a waitress at a local cafe. This barely paid for her food and her rent so, when the local accountant, Gerald Jones, began to pay attention to her, she was flattered and allowed herself to start thinking of how easy her life would be as an accountant's wife.
Gerald proposed to Queenie on the 18 November 1944 and they were married in January 1945. They settled into a pleasant if dull existence in a nice little house in Semaphore and two years later had a beautiful daughter followed closely by a son.
Queenie never did find what had happened to her Joey though she thought of him often. Her children grew and had children of their own who now have their own children. Gerald died in 2001 at the age of 85 and now Queenie spends her days gazing out the window at passers by and looking forward to visits from her children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. They're planning a huge party for her 90th birthday.
from Harriet Tibet via FB
ReplyDeleteI did some research for this competition, if by "research" you mean "consult Wikipedia". Is she actually Miranda Richardson living incognito in Largs Bay? Do I win?
Wikipedia: "Queenie's immature behaviour is expressed in her desire to "get squiffy and seduce nobles" (and force presents off them on pain of death). A naughty schoolgirl at heart, Queenie loves to party, play games and get drunk. If anyone fails to laugh at her jokes, they risk execution, but, to her followers' bemusement and frustration, she sometimes tires of their toadying and welcomes a more cynical approach".
from Mitch at Port Adelaide
ReplyDeleteWas she smashed in the head with a UFO?
from Stuart from Magill
ReplyDeleteIs she the founding member of Devo?