From Hobart to Beverley : 5.4.1992

ALAN CARLTON

PO BOX 1078

GPO HOBART

7001

5/4/92

Dear Bev

The infinite possibilities arising from a blank screen.  Thank you for your postcard from London.  You really selected a corny postcard.  Was it left over from the last time you were in London or did you scour the streets searching....On the front is a picture of Westminster Abbey etc.  This word pro program has a thesaurus built into it.  It is a wonderful toy.  If you don't like the word corny you can try hackneyed, timeworn or cliched.  There are 25 words under the heading corny.  They say the word in the English language with the most analogues is drunk.  I'll be back in a minute.  I'll just check that.............. There goes one theory.  Only 22 words under the heading drunk which is less than the corny word. 

Today is a meandering Sunday.  The weather is unseasonably warm and affable.  There is nothing I couldn't do today because of the weather. 

Laziness might stop me but not the weather.  A few weeks ago we received a letter from Pam.  After reading it I have no idea what she is planning to do.  This is either because she has no plans or she is keeping them private.  She has probably sent you the same letter. 

Stacey is exhibiting all the prodromal symptoms of some-one about to have their Birthday:-only two sleeps to go.  Next Saturday she is having a small party at the Pizza Hut.  She has only been at her new school a few weeks and does not have a wide range of friends or acquaintances.  The good side of this is that she does not have a wide range of enemies.  The highlight of her school day is playing on the bars.  She loves it.  If you ask her what she did at school she will initially say that she did "nothing much".  After repeated questioning she will finally admit that she played on the bars.

Melissa is having about a six week break from swimming.  After one week she sheepishly admitted that she missed swimming.  This was obvious to us a long time before it was apparent to her.  Jolene is much the same but not as bad.  She has her music to occupy her.  They have been spending a lot of time playing on the computer and playing with the neighbour-hoods. 

The built-in thesaurus cannot disguise the fact that I don't know what else to add.  The football has started and the cricket has finished.  One commentator on the radio called the time of year when both cricket and football are both being played as "the twilight zone".  It is a bit confusing.  Everybody was happy that England didn't win the World Cup.  Even in the Prison, the inmates were barracking for Pakistan.  I saw a patient last week who said that the players were doing the full Ramadan fast through-out part of the World Cup.  I find it hard to believe that the players were eating nothing when the sun was up and still playing good cricket at the same time.  I know if you are sick or pregnant you can be excused but I don't know if playing cricket is an adequate reason.  There is no such word as cricket in the Thesaurus.  Apparently there is no other word to describe the game.

Regards