From Melbourne
8.2.82
Dear Alan,
We
received the parcel you sent last week with tapestry in it. Everybody who has
seen it has found it very interesting and nice to look at. I think that is the
best sort of present to send from a foreign country something that can only be
bought there and you know is made in the country. It is too good to put away so
I am going to hang it on the wall somehow.
Dad has
been talking to Graham Robert’s father who gave you a few addresses to write
to. He is travelling over Europe for about a year.
Lois
went last week to the Mallee but we haven’t heard from her yet. Last week was
cool for February so she would have had gradual introduction to the weather
which was very hot yesterday and today. Over 40 degrees at Mildura both days.
You
know how it is–you don’t hear about a place or person for ages then you hear
about it several times. You said you had just seen Victoria Falls–which must
have been a wonderful experience. On Saturday night we saw a program of a train
trip from Cape Town to the Victoria Falls. It was done on a few different
trains and while he was in Johannesburg he went to one of the stations in
Soweto and showed the trains leaving early in the morning packed full and
overflowing with workers going to Johannesburg to work. The traveler who did
the program had to travel the last miles to the falls with the Engine Driver in
then engine of a goods train going to Zambia. At the time the program was made
he and the photographer were the only ones looking at the falls. The hotel was
closed and no tourists were allowed because of the guerilla fighting. But
politics changes so quickly–they had to put an extra bit on the program that
since it was made everything was back to “normal”.
Do you
remember the hospital that was built several years ago in Furlong Rd just past
the Kindergarten. Last Saturday in the Age and also in the Australian there was
an advertisement for two experienced general dentists to start working in the
hospital. It will be working as a clinic of the RDH and the advertisement said
all specialist work would be at the RDH in Melbourne. It is not easy for the
graduates of last year to get work but now and again you see advertisements for
experienced dentists. I even saw one several weeks ago for a good fast dentist.
I have never seen that before. Whoever put that in certainly expected a lot.
If they
are going to have two dentists in the new hospital –and nothing else has
started– they will be lost. Maybe they might increase the number later.
It is getting
hotter @hotter today. It is a day of Total fire ban. I see that when they have
the temperature in the paper from Johannesburg. They have all the main capitals
of the world although they put in Johannesburg not Pretoria. The weather in the
summer seems pleasant not too hot like now here and not too cold. At present I
am sticky all over and not very energetic.
Love
from
Mum
We
are only a very small family at home now. Just Beverley and us.
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