From Merrivale
25.8.1993
Dear Alan, Lorna & Girls,
It is ages since I last wrote, but have only just got home
& here I hope to stay for a while. Thanks for the video, we all enjoyed it
– the children seem to be very taken with the dog. Did Stacey have chicken pox when you took
the video?
We had a wonderful time in the Kruger we saw so many animals
& they were right on the side of the road. Once Dad got a bit scared as we
were almost on top of an elephant. We saw 2 prides of lions, lots & lots of
elephants, a lioness stalking a herd of about 50 buffalo. There were 2 impala
high up in a tree, put there by a leopard & a hyena sulking underneath
hoping that the leopard would drop him a tit bit. About the only thing we
didn’t see was a cheetah & leopard & we just missed the leopard as
someone told us he had been lying along the length of a branch but had just
come down & disappeared in the scrub.
Patches & May are so good to Dad & I , when we got
back from the game reserve there was a meal waiting for us then the next day
they invited us around & what a
feast at least 8 different vegetables then meat & salads & pudding. Then
on Sunday we all went to the Douglas’s for breakfast & lunch. John Douglas
was presenting a paper at Sun City that he has discovered for TB. He
specializes at the end of the year. Kevin & the boys came to see us but
very seldom Magda – she was 40 this year & looks like a little old woman.
We saw Gary, but his wife Lauren was working. They have a town house in Johannesburg.
It was Granny Hayes 87th birthday yesterday.
We stayed at the Walter Hotel on our way up to the Hayes
& on our return. Jenny is not very happy living in the Hotel – she has no
kitchen as yet & everything is at sixes & sevens.
All the family are well. Sheila has a swimming pool put in
& Daddy & Neal are busy getting his place ready for them to move in.
they already have electricity. I am battling with my garden – we have had our
first rain & everything is starting to look green, but there is still so
much dust.
I am hating doing my own housework as I feel so tired to the
house. The children are all coming on nicely with their instruments & we
loved Stacey’s modern dancing.
Tons
of love from XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Dad,
Mum & family
No comments:
Post a Comment