This particular afternoon in Governor-General Quentin Bryce’s life saw her sitting on a kindy chair, a little boy perched on her knee, while she spooned up morsels of scrambled emu egg and chatted with the children.
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Of course she managed to look the epitome of elegance doing it.
Her Excellency was completely at home when she visited Towri Macs Multi Functional Centre yesterday afternoon, and the children were equally comfortable with her.
She made sure she was always at their level which made it easy for little ones to whisper in her ear, or hold her hand and play with her rings or plop themselves down in her lap for a cuddle.
When she arrived at Towri three tiny little girls were sent to welcome her. One shook her hand, one smiled shyly and the third folded her arms and glared. Ms Bryce immediately crouched on the footpath in front of them and offered them her flowers to smell.
It wasn’t until she prepared to leave that it became apparent that during the course of her visit she managed to charm them all. As the Governor-General slipped into the back seat of her car, the trio ran up and stood there waving and blowing kisses. Bathurst High captain Kandy Kennedy gave the acknowledgement of country. She attended Towri Macs herself as a little girl.
Director Diane Fraser said it was very exciting to have Ms Bryce in the multi-purpose centre.
The Governor-General was presented with a beautiful emu egg shell painted by handyman William “Bubba” Kennedy.
It was the Governor-General’s ability to draw people to her that makes her such a well-loved public figure and a favourite of the people of Bathurst.
