Each week I post another fascinating true-life excerpt from my friend & mentor’s journals while she was Housekeeper & Cook at The Flamingo, during the period 1968-1999, titled Cookie’s Diaries. Together we’ve changed a few things around & set Cookies story in a fictional Australian country town so as to protect the innocent & the not so innocent!  We hope you enjoy Cookies journey from such humble & all but penniless beginnings to owning & running the highly successful country guesthouse, ‘The  Flamingo’. To read the last chapter click HERE.
Management Training Begins
It’s a wonderful thing to be in possession of a life well documented which fill in the gaps with details I’ve long since forgotten about. It’s easy to romanticise a successful career when you’re a woman in your 70’s looking back on things, but the journals keep me honest, they also have given me purpose in life as I now reflect on the social revolution that insidiously changed the course of our orderly & civilised society back then.
The Women’s Liberation movement hadn’t gained its full momentum it would eventually grow into throughout the 1970′s after Australian born Germaine Greer’s book The Female Eunuch hit our bookshelves & become a topic of conversation for almost everyone. Ms Greer had her own unique way of  championing women’s rights by flaunting & encouraging sexual promiscuity & even in early 1970 she had become quite the controversial public figure. Although I would never have thought of myself as a militant type & most certainly never discussed the feminist subject publicly, I secretly wished that we women were not as ruthlessly treated in the workforce as we were back then & privately hoped that more gender equality would come out of this movement in the long run, especially as I had found myself the breadwinner. Continue Reading 
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