From Empangeni
20.3.85
Dear Mr & Mrs Carlton
I am sending you a letter from Melissa and some pictures
from Jolene. Melissa started writing the letter before the gala and that is why
she changed “am swimming” to “swam” and you will notice that Jolene signed her
name herself. Melissa came last in the gala but there was only 6 people
selected to swim in each event and she was quite lucky to be selected to swim.
Alan ran in the marathon in Durban in preparation for the
comrades marathon which is on the 31st May. He intends doing few
more marathons before then. The comrades marathon is a 92 km run from Durban to
Pietermaritzburg and so he is doing a lot of training at the moment.
Melissa was very pleased with the books and the shirt that
you sent her. They also bought bikinis with the money. I don’t know if you would like them to call
you granny or grandpa or not. I will be quite glad when everything is over
because he has been running twice a day. He says that after the race he will
probably get a bicycle and cycle to work and back every day. Now that it is not
as hot he is doing a bit of gardening. The vegetables that he planted before
Christmas have just come to an end. We had a lot of brinjals, a few green peppers
and butternut. The tomatoes did not do so well, but I think it is difficult to
grow things here because of the heat and the insects.
Alan got a letter
from a friend of his that studied with him and said that he had been working in
New Guinea. From the sounds of things it appears that the work that he did is
much the same as what Alan does here.
Alan seems to be doing more and more fractured jaws all the time. The
first time Alan had done a fracture was when he worked in the Transkei. Most of
the patients are either accident or assault victims.
At the moment there
seems to be a lot trouble in the black
townships, but there is no trouble in Natal except that where my father works
there was a strike and the employees were all fired but with a
few exceptions were all reemployed, but most of the trouble is in the Eastern
Cape.
Lots of love
Lorna
Melissa and Jolene like any books and have enjoyed all the
books you have sent them.
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