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June
Arrival day
June, my younger sister, is another head made by Matt and Bronwen in 2010
June and Sindy
Gunslinger girl
Quad squad
The lady owner of this quad was happy to lend it to June to be photographed for a celebrity magazine.
June in 2011
January sunshine
At the Shaftsbury Theatre, London, in 2011
June and I appeared the Shaftsbury Theatre for a magazine event in 2011. These three photos were taken using a compact 35 millimetre film camera.
Make-up room
Waiting for the taxi home
August 2012
Close-up
June’s freckles are permanent, being applied during manufacture.
Afternoon tea
Laura and June
June and Denise in August 2013
“Yes?”
Compatibility between heads and bodies of different doll manufacturers is rare, but June can borrow Laura’s body. That is fortuitous because the backbone (which I think is made of PVC pipe) of June’s original body broke in 2017. The underlying cause of the problem seems to be the modification of the skeleton, which is the same as Laura’s, by June’s manufacturer in the USA to include an eye-bolt high on the back for hanging up the doll. Repeated hangings (an upright doll clear of the floor takes up less space and is easier to dress and undress) applied repeated stress to that part, which ‘work-hardened’ and fractured.
June and her books in 2017
At the Barbie doll cafe in Bournemouth
Waiting for a taxi again
June wind-blown at the quay
Crowded house
June, even more than Rebecca, is a bookish girl and she often likes to sit on her own, reading. She is practised at finding a place for that in this house crowded with dolls. I took this photo in late December, 2018.
The pictures on this wall, which I cut from magazines and calendars, are exposed to strong light and have faded. In the small photo on the right of the hang glider over the surf, the sailcloth is bright yellow (a dramatic contrast) but in the photo it has faded to pale grey.
June and I reading in April sunshine
Brave Guys and Beautiful Dolls 