Saturday, 29 October 2016

From Empangeni (Lorna) 1984

From Empangeni


Dear Mr & Mrs Carlton,

Thank you for all the photos you sent. I certainly did not recognize Alan in the photo that was taken of him and his sisters at that picnic. Alan says that Beverley has changed such a lot that he hardly recognizes her. We have sorted out a few more photos for you. The three with Alan and myself were taken at the Zululand Safari Lodge at Hluhluwe where we spent a weekend. The other photos are the bridge that was washed away during the flood just in front of my sister’s house in Swaziland and of Melissa and Jolene with friends and cousins at my mother’s house. At the moment I am studying very hard for my exams. I have already written one exam and have another five to write. 

The weather has warmed up quite a lot already and we are swimming nearly everyday at the swimming pool.

Alan ran a 16 km race last Saturday evening, it was his first race in over a year, and he came 24th and then won a lucky prize after the race. Melissa and Jolene were so excited about it. Alan is going to studying computer science with the university next year, also correspondence, for non-degree purposes. At the moment he is busty making a word processor program for the computer so that we can use it as a word processor as well. One of these days you will get a letter printed by the computer.
You mentioned in your letter that you wondered if we ever see anything of Australia in the news. We quite often see things on TV about Australia but it is usually a dog that can write his name and lay the piano, or a man riding on the back of a cow which he has trained to carry him like a horse or something funny, but nothing newsworthy. Melissa and Jolene have drawn pictures for you.  Melissa’s is of Alan running on the rack track and Jolene’s is a house and a flower.
Anyway, that’s all for now
                                Love from Lorna


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