From Melbourne
9.8.85
Dear Melissa and Jolene
I have
put in two books. Everybody in Australia has heard of the Zulu wars and the
Boer wars. You have had other battles in your history but in Australia we have
only had one battle and it was very small. One of the books is about that
battle. We don’t live very far from Ballarat. In the old cemetery in Ballarat
is a monument to the soldiers that died. One day a couple of years ago Pamela
and myself looked all over the cemetery looking for the graves of some of our
relatives and we came on the large stone in memory of the soldiers and miners
who died. That is our only battle. We haven’t got much history when you think
how big our country is.
The
other book is about an old suburb of Melbourne. It looks like Collingwood which
is a very poor part.
Melissa
might be able to read parts of the books herself but they are too hard for
Jolene. I thought when reading the story of ‘The boy who painted the sun’ that
the pictures and stories didn’t quite match. See what you think. Anyhow it was
a good idea.
How are you getting on at school?
I hope you are both doing all your work well. How is the swimming going. Is
your weather hot now or is it too cold to go swimming now. I don’t know whether
Alan told you but just around the corner from our place there is a heated swimming
pool where you can swim all the year and not have to worry about the weather.
The
children at the kindergarten haven’t been very good the last few days because
they have been inside for too many days. Do you get annoyed when you can’t go
outside? Maybe your weather doesn’t get as cold and as wet as ours.
Yesterday
we were up at Trentham and Benjamin came up too. When we went for a walk on our
place he followed the tracks of kangaroos which were easy to see because the
ground was so soft and the kangaroos must have been big. It was easy to follow
the tracks.
Love
from Grandma
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