From Melbourne
Dear Alan and Lorna,
That
was a good photo of you in the paper did you know the photographer or were you
just lucky. Do you think you could get a copy of the photo from the paper. It
would be good to have one. I have been trying to make a frame with photos of
everyone. I have got two excellent photos of the girls. The ones beside the
swimming pool. Everyone said how good they looked. The only one we have of Lorna is not a very
good one and we have got two of you one putting your socks on and the other one
all we can see is the top of your head because you are pulling a tooth out. So
we could do with a couple of photos of you and Lorna. At least I did have one
of you but I couldn’t find one photo of Beverley taken recently. I have taken them
but she took them all because she didn’t like them. The only one I had many
photos of was Lois and also Pamela while we were in Tonga.
Nowhere
in the paper did it say how long the race was. It must have been long I just
don’t know how you can do it. I know you need to do some exercise but the race
must have been very long. I don’t think you would get as many people here
running so far. Lots run marathons but not much further.
Your
birth certificate is enclosed. We only got it Friday It takes 3 weeks to find
and send it to us. I suppose it stops you getting out of the country in a
hurry.
Also I
am enclosing and article from Saturdays’ paper. It doesn’t tell you there but
even though most people can’t see why Sportsmen shouldn’t t go there is no-one
who argues with apartheid. No-one here even tries to find an argument for it
but what most people feel is that if we are still doing business with south
Africa why should the sportsmen be told they can’t go. It is just that they
feel Sportsmen are bring the only ones being used to change the South African
government.
I have
just finished reading a book called ‘Sons of Zulu’ by Aubrey Elliot published
by Collins. I didn’t like the way he writes – he seemed very condescending
about the Zulus but the photos were beautiful. But what percentage of Zulus
live as he shows I would be interested to know. Are there many who live as they
have lived for the last 100 years or so. Maybe there are still a lot of Zulus
living like they are in the book but I wonder. The book was published in 1978
so it is fairly up to date.
Guess
what! We are losing this week a part of the family or sort of.
Beverly
is getting a car for herself and she is using the Mini as a trade-in. I have
been using it mostly this year because it wasn’t good enough for her to get to
Monash or back. She has been looking for a while and on Saturday she fell in
love with a car as soon as she saw it so this week the Mini goes.
In a
way I will be sorry to see it go it has been a good car and still pleasant to
drive even though it was going through oil as well as petrol and the clutch had
nearly gone and the brakes were not as good as they should be. But I have just
been going to the kinder & back each day. It won’t be quite the same
without the Mini. At least we will have the Commodore all the time now and
Beverley will have to look after her own car herself.
Tell Melissa and Jolene that I will
write to them soon but I thought I better get this letter off as soon as
possible so that you will have your birth certificate. I hope that by now you
have fully recovered from the long race which we all thought you did very well.
I think anybody who finished it was remarkable. But I hope you have found an
easier way of exercising.
Love
from Mum
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