From Melbourne
1.7.82
Dear Alan,
I
didn’t exactly say that South Africa was healthier than India I just said
Pamela had to have a lot of injections. I suppose I inferred that it was.
Pamela actually was sick from the injections that she had when she was having.
One of the injections only lasts a few weeks so she had to have it in the last
week. She was sent home from work two days from the malaria tablets and all the
“germs” inside her. We have had one letter from her. It was written while she
was staying on a house boat in Kashmir. She said most of the other people on
the trek through the mountains are young people by themselves just like her so
they are all getting on quite well.
Beverley
seems to be copping quite well with living by herself in Pamela’s flat. She
doesn’t seem to panic when things go wrong. One day as he was going out she
shut the door and she had left the key inside. She went to the Police Station
but the police couldn’t get in but they were able to tell her of a locksmith
nearby and he was able to open the lock. She has been going to a few friends
places who live near the flat for tea and she has been inviting them there for
tea.
Lois
was home last week for three days while she did a course in textiles at the
Preston college of Textiles. One of the days David Frost was there. He owns the
TV rights to the Guinness book of Records.
The college broke the record for the time it takes to make a man’s suit from
the sheep. There were three sheep at the college, shearers, weavers, cutters
and sewers. In one and a half hours from the time the wool was on the sheep one
of the lecturers was wearing three piece suit. The only thing they didn’t do
was dye the wool. This was a world record. Lois said there were people rushing
around everywhere and for a time the course was forgotten. She won’t be home
again this term as it is too far to come home for two days.
I’m
sorry I really don’t know a lot about the football except that Footscray is on
the bottom. They have just sacked their coach and one of the players has taken
over till the end of the year. When I see an interesting article on the
football I will cut it out and send you. Are the people in South Africa as mad
on sport as most Australians are.
I read
a book about the bushmen earlier in the year. Pamela gave me the name of a new
book about the Kalahari Desert and the bushmen which I will see if I can get
from the library.
Several
of the people who have seen your photos of the bushman’s paintings have
remarked how much like the very early paintings in other countries. Only I imagine
the painting by the bushmen[AC1] [AC2]
are not nearly as old as those in the caves in France.
I hope
everything is going alright with you. It is very quiet here. Just Dad and I. We
have nearly finished the front bedroom and will shift in next weekend. I am not
sure that I told you in the last letter that Humphrey was killed so it is even
more quiet. I don’t know whether we will get another dog or not but if we do it
will not be until the holidays when someone will be home most of the time.
I’ve
had the TV on all the time I’ve been writing this letter but I haven’t been
watching very much. Today the ABC is 50 years old so they are just going over
all history of the ABC. I watched the part which showed the children’s session
that I used to belong to.
We will
have all the young people from the church here for supper. They are going to
the swimming pool first. Please look after yourself with all those diseases
around you.
Love
from mum.
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