From Melbourne
28.10.82
Dear Alan,
I just
sent a parcel last week which should reach you before Christmas. You tell which
things are for you but I have put in several other things which I thought you
might like to give to anyone you have got to know. Some are of better quality
than others but they are all Australian. I also stuffed it with the newspaper
of last weekend and several dental magazines which I managed to squeeze in.
Something
happened to me yesterday which I can’t remember ever happening before. I lost
my voice. Must have just been my voice box because I wasn’t sick just couldn’t
talk. I went to the kindergarten the children were very good. Still hasn’t come
back yet. Pamela wanted to speak to me on the phone when she heard m voice all
she did was laugh. I think I must be a little run down. Have been working a bit
harder lately. Just shows what happens when you don’t look after yourself as
well as you should.
You
mentioned that the father of man you are staying with was in a Concentration Camp.
I have just read 2 books on the Boer War (or parts of 2 books). The
Concentration Camps were certainly awful places. I think the term concentration
camp was first used in describing these camps. I sometimes wonder if the
British had lost the war and the Afrikaaners were always in government whether
there would be apartheid now.
Beverley
is in the middle of exams now. Pamela is going up this weekend to spend time
with Lois. Anne thinks she will be at Tottenham Tech again next year. I don’t
think it is very easy teaching there.
Every
night on the news we hear of more factories that are closing down or just
putting off more workers. Massey Fergusson’s are putting off another 80
tomorrow. We now have several fathers at the kindergarten who are out of work. I don’t think they are even looking for a job.
Yesterday a group of more workers who were losing their job came to Canberra
from Wollongong to see the Prime Minister. They were so angry they broke the
front doors of parliament house. They still didn’t get what they wanted. But it
does show the angry mood of some of the workers.
Love
from Mum
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