Saturday, 29 October 2016

From Melbourne (Mum) 2.7.84

From Melbourne
2.7.84


Dear Alan and Lorna,
                                                We have just received your letter today saying that you are married. We were pleased to hear it you should be happy together and the two girls.

                I am glad that we were able to go and see you both before so we don’t feel as if Lorna is a stranger.  We have a few photos of Lorna and the girls that we took but none of them are very good so if you have any good photos could you please send us some. We have only got the ones taken at Umfolozi and at Vereeniging and they are just photos. Don’t send us photos just sitting around looking at the camera but good ones of the children playing and Lorna doing something.

                When we think what to send we will send you something for a belated wedding present – I can’t think what it will be but I hope an idea will come.

                Lois rang up tonight and she was happy to hear you were married I am sure that is what she would like to do. At present she is off from school with a broken bone in her hand from hockey.

                You said in your letter it was getting cold if you had ben here today you would know what it is like to be cold. It got to 9 today. There was snow in the mountains and in the lower hills today. It was freezing outside and now it is raining. But until today it has been a mild winter and one of the driest May and June we have had.

                Even though it is so cold Dad went back to work tonight so I am here by myself. Beverley should be home for tea tomorrow night.

                I am not sure if I mentioned in my last letter that Anne had left Dennis and because and because the place she is staying at is only temporary she may be coming back here. We have plenty of room with three spare bedrooms and only Beverley now and again since Pamela went to Tonga last weekend.
                Some one said to me the other day they can only be sure of what they are doing one day at a time and how true it is.

                Tell Jolene and Melissa that when they are old enough that they have to come to Australia and visit us. I am sure they would enjoy it. I think Jolene and Benjamin are about the same age. But just at present Benjamin has nothing to do with girls – he and his friend Daniel “don’t like” girls and only play with boys. He will learn.

3-7-84 today is even colder the children at the kindergarten didn’t take off their parkas although we had the heaters on. Would you ever get a frost where you are?

                A man who said he was a friend of yours in Queensland wanted to get in touch with you because he wants to go to Zimbabwe. I told him that you wouldn’t be much help but I did give him your address. He was a dentist in Queensland.

                                Give my love to everybody
                                                                                                Mum




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