Harry Gordon in The Hard Way tells us that the explanation was simple enough; the Hawthorn bush was also known as the May bush or May tree, and both its flowers and the plant itself were referred to, ...

They lived in the family home on Scotchman’s Hill in Hawthorn. In his latter years, Syd moved to Lyndoch Retirement Home in Warrnambool to be closer to his daughter, Jill Morrison. I visited Syd in ...