From Hilton 22.1.87

From Hilton

22.1.87

Dear Lorna & family,

Thanks for the super letter. So pleased to hear that you are all well & settling down. I have been waiting for days for a letter from you & I wanted to write & send you some photos. Lionel got a camera for Christmas.

Christmas was very quiet this year. It was quite exciting as it was the first year that Jonathon could understand properly & he got a stocking full of small presents. Neal & Vanessa came for Christmas & Jenny & Jimmy came Christmas afternoon (Jimmy had to work), but Ma was sick in bed all over Christmas. She had all the kids staying since holidays began. I think she overdid things slightly. 

Our holiday at the coast was lovely but very hot & over crowded. Lesley & Ronald kindly lent us their caravan but the caravan park was fully booked so you can imagine what it was like. After the coast we went to Jenny’s & Jimmy’s (Just Lionel & the kids). It was very quiet & that is exactly what we needed after the coast. We stayed at their new house in the roundavel   so we could do as we pleased. They have a lovely old place.

Well Fay is walking all over now & still does not have a tooth, so I promised my friends that we will have a pancake morning when this long awaited thing appears; but she looks so cute toddling around & everybody comments on her as she looks so small to be walking.

We have been gadding quite a lot lately. On Saturday night we were invited to my friends for trout which her husband had cooked. We left Fay with Ma & took Jonathon. We told Ma that we would be home at nine & arrived home shortly before midnight. We had sat around the pool & so enjoyed ourselves. Next Saturday we have been invited to Charles’ surprise Mongolian Birthday Braai at his twin brother’s home in Dargle.

On Monday night we went to see Crocodile Dundee. Have you seen it yet? It made me think a lot about you & Australia & quite anxious to visit you; but hat will be a long time off unless we suddenly hit the jackpot. Lionel is keen to get a place in Nottingham Rd or Rosetta where we could have a small holding with a small workshop so that he could work from home & do work for the farmers (furniture etc) & also  have a cow for our milk 7 grow our vegies etc. He is thinking of the near future; but we will just have to see. He has always wanted to live out in the country.

Are you still breast feeding Stacey & does she eat vegies yet? Fay spends her whole ay eating. If she has not got a biscuit in her hand then she finds herself at home in my grocery cupboard with her fingers in my sugar 7 rice, she is really cute.

Jonathon is very good & very quiet but also quite cheeky. Lesley tried to help him with his food at lunchtime & he said to her “eat your own fish,” which was jolly funny. It is so funny when they are so small but not so funny when they get bigger. Anyway he is not cheeky in a precocious manner.

Anyway I am not going to start waffling now. Jonathon is longing to catch a fish so we promised to take him to the dam this afternoon. We are having a pot roast now…………………………………………………………….

Please note that I have written back on the day I received your letter.

Thinking of you all & missing you lots. Write soon.

Love Debbie

PS Please write to my home address