Saturday, 30 July 2016

From Melbourne (Mum) : 3.4.82

From Melbourne
3.4.82
Dear Alan,
                                Well you certainly are getting around. I imagine the place you are now it quite different to the clinic you were at. What sort of people are the patients now. I usually have a look each day in the paper at the temperatures around the world. I have noticed that Johannesburg seems to have a fairly good climate and even not unlike Melbourne’s weather. Will this place be much the same.

                 You mentioned about the tapestries. I have been reading a book about Lesotho and it mentions a lot about the mohair industry. Lois thought if you could send some phots of what they are like we should be able to find somewhere that they could be sold.

We have put the one you sent on the wall and I would like to have another different kind. I could buy it off you. If we had one here we could show other people but I would like to keep one as they are different from having painting on the wall. If they are good then people don’t mind paying for them.

                There has not been much about Sth Africa in the paper lately because there seems so much interest in other countries. I think Australia must be one of the safest and I suppose boring countries to live in. We have a State election this Saturday between Thomson (Liberal) @Cain (Labor) and even the papers are not very excited. There really are no issues. Everyone says Labor will win but not for any good reason except that the Liberals have been in power for so long ie 27 years that they have become complacent. Katherine is back from her stay in France @ Europe. She didn’t even stay all the time she planned. Seems that she was lonely and she didn’t like the way the men in some countries behaved to a young blond girl. She said they were worst in Germany. She liked France. Now she is looking for a job teaching. Not too easy to find one.

                The football season started last Saturday and on Sunday South Melbourne played Melbourne in Sydney.  They are trying to get a club going in Sydney. There was a big attendance but I don’t know if that will happen every time. Dad didn’t go here because he wasn’t feeling too well. Is getting better now.                                         Love Mum.


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