From Melbourne
4.86
Dear Lorna and Alan,
I
spent ages trying to find a card and I have just got home and read the verses.
Not very good but I just bought it because I thought the picture on the front
looked nice. Beverley is here tonight for tea. She has just read it too. Said I
should get another one. But the verses were all pretty awful.
It was
good to hear Alan’s voice on Monday night. He just chose the right time because
Norm came in as I was talking. You must both be very happy. Alan said you were
very quick but everything went well.
When I
had all my children the mothers stayed in hospital for 10 days but here the
mothers are unusual if the stay a week it is unusual if the stay a week it is
usually less. I hope you can stay in a
while and have a rest because once you go home you don’t get much of a rest.
Melissa
and Jolene will most likely want to do everything for the baby first. Most of
the children at the Kinder love their new babies but are usually disappointed
at the beginning because the new baby doesn’t play with them. But after a month
as they see the baby grow and do more they become very protective of their
brother or sister.
When I
rang up Lois, Anne and Beverley everyone of them was very pleased. Beverley
said she had a smile on her face all day. I will write and tell Pamela when I
have finished this letter. Later on tonight we are going up to Rockbank and see
if we can see Halley’s Comet better. We went on Monday night. Up Ballarat Rd
and then we turned up the first street on the left after the street lights
stopped. There is a slight rise and you get a wonderful view over Melbourne.
There were four other cars there but the comet was in the Milky Way and wasn’t
very easy to see. Tonight it will be
near the Southern Cross so we are taking Beverley too because she couldn’t
possibly see it where she lives almost
in the middle of Melbourne. We could see the lights of Melbourne from
Sydenham to Werribee.
I forgot to ask you to spell the
baby’s name is it Stacy or Stacey or is it something else.
I don’t
know whether Beverley told you but it was because of Alan that she has a new
boyfriend. He is the recruitment officer for the Navy and she had to talk to
him about positions in the Navy. He has been here for the two meals already. I
don’t know what he thought of us but Lois and Ken were also here for lunch on
Sunday. He seems quite nice but I did hear tonight that Beverley is going out
with a group on Friday with her last boyfriend. I quite liked him too.
I have
to hurry up and finish this letter because the others want to go now and look
at the sky.
We are
very pleased about the new baby but do tell Melissa and Jolene we haven’t
forgotten about them. They are just as important. Sometimes if everybody talks
about the new baby the older children do feel they have been forgotten.
Well we
have been out and back. It’s a beautiful starry night. It was fairly easy to
find but looks more like a white smudge.
I was
wondering if you can remember much from
the other two babies or do you have to start all over again and learn
everything again. I hope your memory is better than mine and you can remember
what to do.
Love
from as all
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