Well hi y'all this is an extra tape I haven't heard back from you yet and I only sent you one maybe a week ago now, but I realized that there was quite a lot of things that I hadn't covered and lots and pieces like you know odd mail that you've sent etc. so I thought I'd make another tape because after this week we might be pretty busy for a little while It's the 20th of May today Thursday Thursday night about 10 o'clock for a week.
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So I thought I'd get another tape off to you Well, to cover my list of things that I'd forgotten about, you know, to mention maybe in the last tape and that was your kettle looks super I'm sure dad is able to make a nice cup of tea with that. It really is an nice kettle isn't it dad's foot the sail the.
P she was saying that the doctor said to be that once a day and Mash's sister who's a nurse, you know, they all agreed that it would be saline barbs that I suppose he's putting a sp into.
The fact that you're getting Johnny Carson now is interesting and I can understand that they would not find him at all funny and isn't it a little bit political or sort of on our front for New Zealand or what are they cutting it all?
Is it coming across as is here, I don't know sometimes, you know, I mean, I think the interviewing of the guests is found. and that's something that you would all enjoy seeing these people sort of up front, but.
You know all his jokes in that to us of course are nightly and they are relevant but they might be a little bit sort of outdated by the time you get them etc Im not sure on that of course Carol Burnt you've seen the trial and but I read in the paper the other day that there had been an appeal and she had agreed to only take half of what the original amount was I think she was going to get over a million dollars it's going to be half that now.
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Then I've got the dirt had three ones, two in the I think it was two in the bonus bonds and one in the golden Kiwop and I had thought the world third time lucky, but maybe fourth time lucky for the buggie.
And it was nice to know that all you're keeping in touch with all your American friends and that they're all traveling you know and doing their trips still.
And I thought also that I'd better to get this off because you'll be heading off to Osie and I can't remember now what dates that is, but you said that you're going to stay in the cross in Sydney which I think is fun too and you know enjoy that for a day too.
Before you go to wherever you're going.
I guess it's to the beach or to a quietest spot them in the big city anyway.
You were saying that Maitland can eat can he eat when we have fish, he just loves fish he eat treat these is a fish and a hamburger, he's growing fast, he's sort of a short little guy little red-headed stranger we call him and he's really you enjoying his life.
He's quite cute, he's done you know much better at school this year, I think he's more settled and got all of his little friends and stuff.
It seems pretty heavy Miss Be on joyism and he wants to have Miss P. Jones next year that was Rachel's teacher in the third grade and she likes him she really thinks he's a bit of all right all the black teachers all kind of like I I guess because it's so fair that he's hoping to get her and he's.
They fully said to me, you know, she likes me, he knows, so I guess it'll be good if he got her.
And you know you were going up to the police training college opening and I was thinking of you well when I had your letter you would have been up there and I guess you had a good time seeing all your old friends and hope the weather was good in Wellington I didn't know whether it was wise for you to go out and visit the Rose Cot at number 40 or not Dad had be very critical of what they'd done to his garden I should imagine.
Anyway, I hope it was looking in ship shape and I Mac anyone that would have bought that house would not have had a lot to do to keep it looking pretty good since the groundwork had all been done.
 have you had, did I just tell you that I had sent bounces or had you received it, I sent two packets with two of those dispenser things and I decided to send it all to you so that you could disperse as you felt those that needed it, you know and if Dorothy doesn't ever dry her I don't suppose there ass much point in her having that, I didn't realize that.
And then you went on to say that May, although has been a sad month and the family has been a happy month for you, it really is, I mean, we've had a lot of births and after all now we've got the gbils five little babies born in May.
So.
Anyway, then you mentioned too that David was not really too happy in his job or whatever and that he.
You know, felt like his job was on the line, I know he must be very concerned but I'm sure that he'll find something else and John's argument to it was I said well David's you know concerned that.
His jobs on the land because all these farmers are forming copops and stuff and John just said well why don't he join the coops so maybe that's I mean we don't anything about the situation down there but maybe that is a possibility after all David's got so much more experience than probably most people in the country it seems ridiculous that he would be out of a job.
So hopefully you know, it' all sort itself out and it seems to me.
And I mean I can't get really an overall picture but because it's only what you mentioned just from time to time, but it's really never been entirely happy with this new crowd has he however, I hope that you know, it seems probably a shame that James aviation will obviously be able to see their way through a sort of a recession or whatever it is with the,
Top racing, but.
At the same time he really wasn't all that happy with them, they hadn't given him the best of treatment, I shouldn't think.
Anyway i'm sure he'll find something and he could always go into business or whatever I mean Hamra he could go into business you maybe that would be something that they would like to do I'm sure the police college was pretty good wast enough seeing it all open and having been planned for so long and never having got round or been a lot happening here with the police of course.
You can hardly compare the police here with the police in New Zealand, but no one of the problems with this murder investigation is that the bodies are found all over the place of course, and although it's,
In a particular area, I mean, I think I might have sent you at one stage when they were doing those five articles, which of course was only, I think we were under 20 at that stage had been murdered.
Therere in a sort of a vicinity, but those vicinities are divided into counties. We all live in counties, and each county has its own damn police force. And then there's the state. and then there's the.
feederal of course and FBIB and the GB or whatever they call themselves so you've got so many different police forces arguing the tos and you know it seems to me that they are not as cooperative with one another as they might be consequently people are uninformed and or as informed as maybe they should be then of course now we've got the big who are about bringing the guy over from England that finally got the Yorkshire River and I think I've cut out a cling for you where somebody says well we should be spending on money on other things and apparently he's up on charges of some d thing anyway and what can he do and it turned out but it was an just an ordinary cop that.
 foundound them and the plainclo cups here are not getting sufficient information.
And it seems like everybody's running around in circles I would think that there has been a bit of lax less really because it did take a leave of murders before they finally formed the task force and all that sort of stuff and parents had to really spell it out to them before they'd finally believe it and of course there's a lot of feeling that if it white kids and Ash for Dun Woody which is when my friend Vcu loves that'd be all hell that would let loose and I guess that's probably very true, you know they've.
There's an article on the paper tonight, someone complaining that oh I know what it was I was reading a girl that's standing to the Socialist Work Party for me as she's the only political candidate supposedly and she's made this a big thing this murder thing she reckons that the mothers have been criticized as being uncaring and that they didn't love their children and didn't take care of them, of course they're all povertys stricken that they were all homosexuals, the children, which is pretty gr thing to say about 10 year olds that the police haven't done.
You know what they should have done they've been very critical of the people they wouldn't take any notice of them and finally were forced into admitting that it was some kind of crazy person out on the loose the whole thing's pretty disastrous and the midst of all this our police what he's not called the commissioner here, but the head of police for Atlanta, chief Chief George Naper, I think his name is he has applied for a job in Brkkeley and California and he wants to get that job and the funny thing is people are saying he's opting out of the murder case because he's sort of embarrassed it' sort of like resigning.
Because the Bley job is much, much smaller, it's I think a police force like quarter of the size of Atlanta, Atlanta has a huge police force.
But he does come from there and he apparently would like to be back in California. So consequently there's several guys in line for the job and there's of course, a lot of politics going on at the moment as to who's Sp get it and there's this guy Bell, who's a very good looking guy that's been in a lot of trouble over the years he's deputy at the moment and I've sent you a few clippings He's on trouble because he used police equipment is something for Sharkkeys machine the new movie that Reynolds is making here in town and anyway the article explain a bit to you but he's good looking guy and he's apparently very popular and it seems that George Naper.
Particular does not want him to get the job so there's all kinds of problems going on but it seems like also that Naper is not going to get the job in California although he was down to a short list of 10 out of you know like 10 applicants or 10 that were suitable and he's a good possibility but there's a bit of arguing going on now in California so whether he'll get the job or not one does not know.
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In one of your letters you had written in quote point of time, I think that the quote that drives us all bananas is this point in time, Mothera, that I had survived I just want to mention that small thing, wh the Air New Zealand disaster really is just fiasco rather than a disaster now isn't it?
You know I can see that there is there was lack and communication getting the computer updated and all that sort of stuff and that's fair enough that's a jollywood argument but as you said they should never even the old.
Comp whatever, shouldn't have been at 2000 feet so it's hard to know who the hell judge the thing or you know who was there the group that finally make the decision on a thing like that I can't understand it and I'm sure everybody's sort of feeling real bent out of shape over it.
Canon low abno.
tealing a bag of tobacco or something wasn't it from the aisle and I think is that bar blow that writes in I think the Wo's weekly in the newspaper every week?
It't that he's quite famous, is that the guy, I guess since you mentioned it it is, I just didn't know whether Cannon was his title or not.
Then we go on to Dorothy's cake made us all very hungry because Americans just John, you know being a big sweet tooth says Americans sure can't make cake, they have a stuff called angel food, which is white cake and absolutely tasteless, absolutely tasteless and it's just awful that's what they all seemed like most, although we had a little luncheon the other day for Angie getting married and one of the girls had made a rum cake which had pecans and stuff on top and I must admit it wasn't so dry as they usually are and I did have a bit of taste because they never put real cream in them or anything anyway.
Talking about Angela's wedding, she finally got married on said Dave.
With all this palavva she had Friday off. She came to work after the day. She was in a bad mood. So she wore a little picky, you know, those wepey sonnets we all with Mckkey mouse on mother said I can't believe Angela that you were going out looking like that. And she said well, you might as well act out your mood and she was in a bad mood. So she had Mickey mouse on her head. Then she wasn't about to take him off. She's in the hair fth And I' you know, she just wasn't ready for getting married the next day. But apparently if shed looked really glamorous on the day. And everything went off very well. But she was telling me they had I said, oh what was they were talking about her Kate, because Patsy had gone to the wedding that were all emed, but I didn't go. And she said something about.
Someone was talking about the cake and how good the cake was And I thought it's probably angel food cake I said well what was the cake like and she said well the groom's cake And I said the groom's cake and they said, oh yes she cake for the groom and a cake for the bride G's cake was chocolate cake I said God the lo save me and the bride's cake was some other damn thing I don't know what it was but they're all very horrible premium they usually put gory colorss and stuff on them then I said here and she never have anything but fruit fruit cake for a wedding cake and they said what fruit cake and I said yes but you've never taste a decent fruit cake anyway I said then you have Masza pan I slept Masza pan and plastic I plastic I said they all said then one of them said all fruit cake is definitely the.
Grooms cake and I said.
I'm sorry it is not what it is the cake and the top de is for the christening too, by the way, so they don't know what a decent damn wedding cake is, but these weird things all the intricate details I think I might have told you that the rehearsal dinner the night before was costing $ thousand0 I mean it's just ridiculous the expense that they go to anyway we had been listening to the tape of the wedding all week and her brother writes music he's a song and he plays the guitar and he really is very good he's got a future that's for sure he played and they had lots of people singing in that it's the Church of Christ and so no booze at the wedding but.
Anyway they had all these people singing and they had this woman singing something that, oh I said,Angie, you didn't tell me they had this and it was sunrise, sunse and I thought oh that was just lovely to have that at a wedding I said"I bet your mother just bolded a little eyes out.
Anyway, so she went wedding went off okay oh that's right the only hitch to all that was that the father in-law, the groom's father, his mother had died like about a year ago, but the father on the Sunday night when they got back from late Lae which is where they went for the one night honeymoon that they had informed them all he didn't even tell them but when they got back they heard that he had gone for urgent postrate gland surgery and he hadn't told them till he won the wedding to be over and because they'd upset them a great deal so finally she had Monday off as well and that he's coming through real well he's fine apparently.
Well, you'd mentioned that you were thinking about Maitland on his birthday and did he have a little couple of friends over for tea or something, Well, did he have a party or did he have a party is what we should say, I think I've probably told you a bit about it in the last day about the kos of things and the old beef, hot dogss norbuster, but he had a great time. He really didn't, of course that was an night the meat was here and then last.
Sunday was Sunday, Saturday, this is this coming Saturday, whatever the day' will be the 23rd or fourth or something is the final day of soccer and everybody has these little parties for the kids afterwards so John decided to have his team Rachels team one last Sunday that was Saturday the week before So after soccer last Saturday, all the girls came back here to s Well, you wouldn't believe it but.
 you know all of April was as hot as hell and this month's really been quite cool for this time of year and you know Americans don' sm tour after this weekend memorial Day on Monday so because we got Monday that is the day the pools open and nobody sws before that and of course we do and of course last Saturday was really quite cool I mean really quite cool and but the girls still wanted to go swimminging they all went swimming and they got and they all got cold and then they got out and we gave them hot dogs and potato chips and.
When we had all ice creams and junks, you know and then they played soccer on the lawn and they alls were away so we had the big lawn to play soccer on and baseball and they all ran around went banana and they got warm again and then they went back and they were perfectlyly happy to do it and was fine but when they all got there we had a car them all over here they were also excited they were still on their soccer costumes at that stage they all ripped those off and getting the pool.
And some of them are just hard cases but of course one comes time to leave finally there' was just Rachel and another little girl that was staying the night with us and they only had one sock between them because all the costume being the same and they all had their right shirts because they have their names on but their pants are all pretty much of a muness they made had a bit of a problem finding all those but then Rachel had one so and the other little girl had none at all so we've been searching for socks all this little girl Sarah whose mother's English fathers from southern Alabama and she's a real real English it's really quite a hoot Sarah is just sort of in the middle there and she's been brought up.
wo older brothers and she's an absolute tomboy and she's also of course not only got a American accent but takes a mother off all the time in her English accent which is pretty cute Cy when we call her mother Inglehar the Amos, he's a doctor.
She's got five socks so we' had found two and then we still had one more to farm them when somebody else had four socks so we realized we'd lost even more than that mean it was just a mess because of course they never wore their fall uniform home.
Anyway, so that went off well we had this kid stay the night who is in the team and she's a funny little girl she's quite a cute kid but she's obviously terribly insecure and the week before she had invited John to go to one his school play or whatever something that was on at school you know thing the parents go to and no one had ever asked him to do that anything like that before so he thought well you know he didn't quite know what to do he thought well hell what the heck could go so he goes and he meets the father the mother and father of divorce so he meets the father and she goes to a little school at Vinings which is just out.
Cumb it's a very very small school just a little old house and they only have like about 1 kids in the class but she apparently had a great deal of trouble the school she was going to one year at the end of the year he said she couldn't even read so they took her out and put her in the school and she's just unremarkably well this year and they're now going to they live in the Jackson school area they live almost behind the school they're going to take her out now and put her into.
Into Jackson because she you know she's kind of up with the kids now but she's the same age as Rachel and she's only in second grade so she's certainly a long way behind Rachel being the fourth going into fifthth so anyway she stayed the night well she was all right you know but she was very demanding and.
Like when you know if there's one thing an American child can do that is they can make from the age of 18 months old on they can make their own hot dog, you know mustard ketch up the whole lot this could have saying Mr. Waters Mr. Waters constantly Mr Waters Mr. Waters I mean she hadn't heard a toe or heard a hand or and you'd love to see the scratch you't need magnifying glass to see it just a attention all the time Mr. Waters will you fix me everyone fixes things you know will you fix me a hot dog I want ketchup and mustard and most of the kids don't want you to do it because they all want the right amount of mustard in the right amount of ketchup and all and she was just so demanding well anyway she stayed the night.
 we stayed up at the house and it was funny I said well I went and we got some fabulous tenderloin stakeout freezer all vacuum packed stuff you know and we all ate well I said, well I know what I'm going to do tonight I'm going to watch television I'll be just so nice to just sit down and there's so many Ts over there everybody can watch the one they want to I'm going to sit down and watch a movie I love the old movies and of course this on Ted Joness television you know 17 the super channel.
He has old movies all the time and I watched a really fabulous movie it was Charles Boer and I can't think he was it was it was was it called don't come tomorrow or something like that and he from Romania aware of it and he was hanging out in Mexico wanting to get into America and he's waiting for the quota you they had a quota system then and finally he meets this American schoolt and he marries her simply to because he had hear that that's how he could but of course he actually does fall in love with her and it all works out pretty well in the end but it was sort of interesting there they were.
Just across the border of this hotel, one point.
There's a woman all these people are waiting just to get in and this woman's about to have her baby, of course and she goes up to the gate of the where you cross the border and says that she's just talked to, well she does pass the the immigration officer on the her way there and she tells the guys that the gate that he said that's all right for her to go and Sutton's office and wait for him to come back because when he comes back they said do you in this woman yet and he said no, you know what she don't hear and they said oh she said that you could.
Wait she could wait in your office to see you of course they go in there's a baby crying and she's had the baby So the guard said quick let's get her back across the border you know and the immigration officer says says no we can't move them back across that child and American citizens says she's finally got and it was really a very cute movie and Sony has' it happened It watched it too and she said, oh it wasn't good they just don't make movies like that anymore It was funny I didn't know whether I told you in the last tape but Rachel and I watched the movie the other Sunday called.
 who was a can't think it was't, it was either Carrry Grant or Rock Huds and one of those guys and.
Oh, who's the woman?
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 dear I dear, just stop my mind her well it was called an affair to remember it was in America and they met on a cruise coming over from Europe and they wanted to get married and she become she.
They were going to get married six months later or something other and she has an accident and he never knows why and it was really sad at the end and Rachel was watching it with me and she started to cry and she said, oh dear you know and I said would never mind right there but old movies they're all like that and she said, but they're so sad and I said, I know N and I used to watch them on Sunday and we' all be crying and losing him butie there would all be red eyed and God those movies are really good sayca they're on all the time and I really enjoy them.
But anyway getting back to this kid so she stays the night of course the kids wanted to watch television too I think they were watching chips or one of those weird things and you know they don't get to watch TV at all so they quite enjoy night it's like going out to the movies but this kid didn't want to she was a hyper kid.
And she just wandered around all the time I't I couldn't sort of do much weather. anyway, the next day, Rachel I took Ra to church in the morning and we got all organizedised and we decided we'd go out to Stone Mountain for the day. there was a rodeo on unfortunately we went to the right one It was.
The world championships. So we kind of saw a bit of everything and probably the best that we would probably ever seat ever see too, So never having been to a rodeo. Well that' honestly well you know what Stone Mountain site there a zillion and one things to do out there anyway well it cost you' 250 to get your car on the gate and it costs us 15 bucks to go to the rodeo and you know us that's you don't get a whole lot more than that. there's no popcor ice cream scs and all the junk and that's endless and we just don't do it. So we had taken picnic lunch with it all been fed and water there's plenty of asked water when we sat.
Rachel gets saying old this is where we were with and then and granted we sat were with you when we went to the daisy F upon with saw the clogging and the band and everything we sat on the other side from there and of course you remember they were running down getting water that day and you know that was all they needed well this kids said oh ge we go ride the horses can we roll the skate can we do this can we do that and at first I thought well you I was sort of polite now were going to do this sort going to do that after riot I'd say no we can't you know we're not here for that and finally then the rode was terrific you know Matt and really got excited.
Coming through with old glory, you know every time our glory came through it all have to stand up and then we had to sing I say, can you see and oh Lordr took that patriotic but they crowned Miss Georgia rodeo or something and these guys were huge amount of dollars they wouldn't oh you know into for millions on the circuit, it was just amazing how much money there was to wouldn't if it was real sad too because someone of them would come in that break the gate or something, you know break before the animal and so of course.
 just straight out disqualified and that was the only opportunity they got and I guess you know they were pretty braed off but they were riding those great big steers and bowls, but what I didn't realize was that they could the ball an electric shot before the poor sucker comes out of the gate, which but tough you know?
Well, anyway, so we had an nice time at the rodeo.
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What mother I was telling you got the little girl and how much you wanted, but you know, American kids just sort of get that that's put a part of going out thats not only is it $15 to get in you spend another five or $6 dollars just on absolute junk you know and they hardly need it as you know they never stop eating up these things anyway you know that's sort of stuff's not cheap.
Anywayone.
That's all another thing so we had a really good day out there what's happened this week well Sunny and I played square last night and that woman whoopped me on me to say I was at five bucks we we play a penny a point.
At the end, you know, and I'd been up $ five for quite a while and it was really getting to her. she was just getting such rotten letters all the time. Anyway, she's finally onto a winning street and then we got down to about zilk and then last night she came over to have a game and we had three in the end I wouldn't me go home I said no, we're gonna to play another one that was must have been 12 o'clock when we started the third game I shouldn't have started I'd lost to you know when you're on losing street you just don't get him I'd thrown in twice a challenge to once and oh Lord so anyway.
She won $235 off me last just one night so anyway I was talking to her today and she's not I said to her I was just talking to her on the phone a little while ago I said, well I'm going go and make a take to my mother I'll just tell her that sunnyny is not a well woman she said no you tell your mother that I'm not a well woman but I'm a champion so anyway that's so sunny but she just didn't feeling good today she has a sore throat and feels a little bit fluy so not a good time of the year to feel that way with the weather said pretty anyway.
So earlier in the week I sent you and I know I just went to the trouble of writing out Marcia had given me the history of the legend of the dogwood tree here and I thought I'll try and school is this on this card, which I did and it all so that it all fitted it onto a postcard of a dogwood and you know I didn't do it in Bra I did it in a felt pain and I'll bet that sucker gets wet I just know it's going to be sitting in your letterbox the one day you go out in the rain hits it of something in a little melt so if it does I'll do it again and seems it's quite a cute little story ritualizer and you wanted you the hammer.
Anyway, well well Rachel did they performed merry problems this week and she was all very excited she went off on the Oxford cloth shirt and the hair all down and all they were to wear makeup, which of course she did Rachel Ken't didn't wear any and I said, well because I wondered if it was because of you know the church and that she don't know sisters wear makeup but she just choseries not to wear any I said well didn't the other kids wear makeup she all the blacks did they love makeup and I said, well were you there any white kid that wore makeup and she said oh no know she wasn't but I don't know that they really had to wear makeup but men she was going to wear and I've got the longest eyelashs in class and.
The most mos too Rachel has an abundance of mos now where she's got all the mos from I don't know black ones and a dark ones they're all over I mean when the doctor examined her he said Rachelchael, you've got moles and places that some people haven't even got places I mean she really is covered and I'm trying to be very careful with them because you know I don't want them getting knocked or anything that she has a great number but Schregger was on the nose but on the face but the rest of her body's just the moles.
Anyway, well, so what day was it mostly Thursday, it must have been Tuesday, they went to Holy Innocence to perform.
Mary Poins.
Well, as you can imagine, Miss first was her usual giggling little self and how gorgeous all her perfect children were. And oh just digressing just for a moment, I told her that all our gs were just fine. there wasn't any rts, and they were all perfect. and she looked at me with a blank expression.
Well, you didn't expect what there would be from my stock. I mean my stocks just like my children.
I mean, one feels that you should never say certain things to most fears, how foolishish of you to think that anything could possibly go wrong with her breed. She's just a hoot she gives those kids rather an overabundance of confidence, I believe that she certainly does things for Matthew. Matthew is in third grade, but fourth grade cat test because of his reading level is so high. he reads higher than Rachel does, and he scored 12.6 in his reading, which is extremely high, I'd say probably then know with a bit.
In the school because he's two greats than some of the kids, but certainly extremely high. I'm also sending all the clippings of the cat tests from Jackson I haven't had the results of our children yet, but Jackson are 2% higher than they were last year overall. So you know, they've done pretty well anyway, getting back to going to Holyly Innocence with Mary Plo and so we're all ready and all gear up Rachel was just in the chorus without she sing all the songs and everything.
Com home in the afternoon. and I said, well, well, did you have a good day had to go.
She was terrible, terrible. And I said, what you mean terrible. She This terrible thing happened. And I said, what, And she, she was terribly upset about it, I said, what happened. She said, well, first of all, must first didn't think we're gonna have enough drivers. So she called a whole lot of our people. And then we had too many. So she had to send the people home. And I said, well, it's better to have too many at the last month than too few because they can't get people at 9 o'clock. Oh, that was the first thing. And then they all got there. And everybody was nervous. And, you know, all the rest of it, putting on the big production. of course, putting it on at another school, not on their home ground, They were just a little uneasy about the whole thing. Well.
The middle of the play when the she said, well, you know' when the.
Chmney sweeps coming, well.
Three chimney sweeps forgot to come and Miss Geason said went and told everybody and I said, well she she went and said, oh I think somebody's forgotten to come out and she says chimney sweeps and everybody knew and I said well, she had to get them out there somehow they were apparently and Rachel's there they were playing out backstage So the chimney sweeps forgot to come well that was one little thing I said well Rachel, you don't realize but nobody even notices that and she said well we were embarrassed, we were in front of the whole school. but that wasn't all.
What else nothing could have been worse, surely Well, you know, Well far. Will is very, very talented. he extremely good reader which goes generally with the acting, remembering their lines and everything. She said, and you know, well Ne like He likes everything to be just perfect. Well, he's one of his first children after all. one speaks for itself And he just hates anything to go wrong or be wrong or not quite right. And do you know what happened, He had to sing the solo.
I can't think I guess it was the chimney sweep solo or something, and he had to sing the solo like, well, Miss Greason was playing the piano and he started on the second verse instead of the first.
And I said, so thank holding my breath, hoping that he continued to sing the sake of his no.
He stopped.
And he just went bright red and he put us hi in his hands.
And Misss. Gesson thought that she didn't realize that what verse was on because she or Rachel said she didn't know all the words, but I'm sure she just was playing away, doesn't think too much about what verse we on.
She thought that it just had stage fright and completely forgotten all his words, so she started to play again, singing the words, but she was singing the second verse and of course that really th and he just was just absolutely be out to shake well, they were hardlyibly embarrassed when I went to great length to explain to her that they must not say anything to well well, apparently just ran away after the show to his mother and hasn't been seen sons.
Oh I mean he was taken back to the school or something but was just horrified and terribly upset and disturbed about it and his mother's real mask she's on the board they' got four kids that have been through the school and you know they're just real nice people I'm sure she soothed them down of it but he was just mortified and anyway I said well I hope you all just assure well it really doesn't matter nobody would notice and of course it wouldn't have matter the Vietnamet gums and damn read in the face and it just continued on but I guess he did not just you know Sony said that's what comes with experience and we were explaineding to her that even on Broway they do things like that and people forget their words and all sorts of things and you must'.
 laugh of anybody else because it can has that easily happened to you dear you know really oh she said was just embarrassing a whole of holy innocence was watching us and oh dear So I guess they were all been out of shape Well anyway Merd have sent home the program for the 28th That's Thursday week today we're all heading to sea Ireland and you know we were having the sports day was meant to go on the 28th that I knew when I asked Misss Wheaton what day she wanted to have the sports day that that was the very day that I would not be able to be there because I wanted to go to sea Ireland with Rachel but I wasn't absolutely certain that I was going to see Ar because they can only take 5.
People and she did have other chaperones and then they were taking father Bob and there are certain people that have to go and naturally they want to take as many kids as they can their first priority, of course they take the number of you know chaperones they need anyway but since Father Bob was going and that was one extra share chaperone so I wasn't sure and I mentioned to the girl that I do PE with on Monday I said well you know I hadn't told me Bobdy but I said I may not be able to be here that day so I'm going to do all the organizing that I can to help and you know just opt out because it's not gonna to make a whole lot difference John said helllock if we weren't even here the show would go on.
I'm good about of you know thing and I think well he's quite right so anyway I so I mentioned it to Jen to.
The skill that I do do it with. And then she tells Jenna Phil, the P E teacher, who next thing I gonna miss it. Oh, we're changing the day. we're changing the day. I said, well, don't do that. Please don't do that. I hoping really, I would be able to be happy to have missed it. But oh, no, so she gets to miss We and they all Oh, no, no, no.
We changed the day So they've changed the damn day made of second of June. which is the guess the following Tuesday. so I thought all this for me and I really wasn't sure that I was going. well anyway I've got was notice today I am going and we've got the whole itiner and everything I'm going send you a copy of it and in the meantime then Miss Wton apparently said theyll be better because all the kids are doing plays all week there's plays every single day and damn me if today Rachel suddenly twigs her play is 28th. Now we have to be at the church at 1130 to leave at 12 and their play has to be done twice in the morning this is Tom Sawyer on that morning Well play her part in the play is the very, very last scene almost the last.
And the last, so I don't know I've got to go and see first in the morning and tell her this tale of we because we have to be out of that school by 25 past to leave or I'm going to be late and I don't want to be because Meredith you know?
I tries she's very organized and I don't want to be a you problem to side I know we'll go and sort that out and Rachel was getting all her wardrobe ready tonight for Tom Sawyer. she said I can't think she's widow some rather I can't think of the woman's name and she has to have an old-fashioned dress Well we had nothing of course so she finally found an old dress of Ruthy's which is sort of got long sleeves and a f a wide fl around the bottom and it's sort of bluey gray and it ties around the middle and that doesn't look too bad and I said now Rachel here is the perfect opportunity for white leather gloves So she got out clear as gloves and she wouldn't rock in on them and shed on these hood as high.
 shoes of mine that looked terrible and I knew she wanted to wear them to play and I said Rachel she wanted to go down and show Sony if the dress looked suitable so she was off down to see sunnyny I said when you get down there you explain to sunnyny that you are not going to be wearing those shoes in the play Sony and I were laughing later we were saying well if she thinks all far embarrassed and so if she was sure embarrassed herself a lot more she trips over those stupid shoes in the middle of the play So she goes down to sunnyny she said Mupi says I have to have a shawl.
And Sony goes into the treasure trove box. She calls it, pulls out her not surewl exactly what we needed. And it was cream or whitey cream, which sunnyny tin round. she said, when Rachel arrived she won't little keen on those gloves. And I it wasn't she. She said, well, my mother says that these are the sort of glovesow would wear And Tom Sawyer and Sony said, yes, thinking they hideous a cell and went away to her treasure trove And when she comes out with the shawl, she said, well, Rachel, would you believe us, the shawl is gonna match those gloves perfectly. And she said, Rachel was just so much happier about the gloves then. So she's got her wardrobe By and we'll do a hair up in a bun and John's gonna to make us some little.
You know, wire rum glasses to wear you know just out of wire.
Anyway, so that's that on the go we head for Sea Island on the Thursday noon, not Sea Island St Simon's I'm sorry which is much further south and then we will we're staying at the Epworth by the sea Eppworth on the seaside or something it's called it's the Methodist retreat and apparently there' this beautiful grounds and fabulous facilities and they're providing all our meals and so it'll be really good and we're going over to Cumberland Island for the day and all I have to pay for is the gas which will cost me I guess about $3040 to go out there and back it's a six hourund drive each way.
And it was $50 for Rachel to go so it's a really good deal and since John took the children down there when I was in St. Louis I really want to see Cumberland Island because it may not get another chance to do it and you always want to go somewhere different so it's really going to be good and we come back on the Sunday which I guess will be the first of June or something.
Not'll be the 31st I end up anyhow and then after that.
School finishes on the first, and then we're going to have Rachel's party on the 6.
And.
From there on them we start on the Che End park concerts, which Im going to be good this year, there's 15 of them this year.
All sorts of exciting people are coming to town so and as usual Rachel wants to see the ladies sing and she said all the ladies always sing on Wednesday nights and we only get tickets for us on Wednesdays and them on both all of us on Fridays.
I really should get them Wednesday too because it doesn't really matter if they have late nights in the Hall of days except they will be going to their summer camp, but that at least starts at nine instead of usual eight o'clock to school and.
Anyway, down me if all the six woman that is singinglly dotty West who sings with.
Go Kenny Rogers, she's on Wednesday night, all the women are on Wednesday night, so I might just see if I can get an extra couple of seats Wednesday nights.
For her to come because she really does like to see them but unfortunately Wednesday nights used to be at 830 and Friday nights at nine see they start kind of late and you know Maitland used to get pretty tired if it wasn't something that was f interesting to him, he would be sort of almost asleep by the time the end of the performance was came and you know when you're spending so much money you're hardly take because kids there to sleep although the difference between taking them and leaving them at home with a paid babysit as almost, you know you might as well take them and might as well be getting them but a culture.
So speaking of culture you've've been sending you and I've got more to send you of Lewis Gard's trip to Europe there or everybody around here since we're sending you forget get some culture but we don't seem to be getting very far I mean that man's just crazy one of the articles I'm sending you is talking about the naked statues in Rome and I really think they're just hilarious.
I had one other thing on my list of notes and you know how you make these notes and then you think what the hell is that all about and it was red lady and I've suddenly realized that it's the first lady.
And wearing red again. And yes, certainly, Rachel agrees with you on that. She doesn't want to see her in bright Ri. She's always in the brightest colour she could have out sh everybody else. but you've got to give Reagan the credit and the damn pope too for that matter. all these assassinations lately and they're all flying through. you, it's just amazing. if it was just any one of us would probably be in bed for six months getting over the shock of it, but they're just amazing when you consider the responsibilities that well the pope and the president have that they're back to work before you know it. It's just amazing. And I guess it's just been very fortunate well, they wouldn't be in those jobs if they weren't in perfect health really they wouldn'.
To handle them, but you know, the fact that they're both very fat and healthy obviously makes a lot of difference and they're both done remarkably well American women that were we not quite so lucky I gather.
But you know, one of Lewis's columns is about terrorism that's sort of haunting the world and you tend to sort of think that there's so much going on your own study with all these murders and things, but you know so much with Ireland and he was mentioning bomb scares and see we don't hear much of all that well, it's all in the news every day but I mean your headlines tend to be more local, I guess.
But you've got to read right deep into the newspapers to catch all that we' got a thing in the paper oh there's a big new thing on about gun control and you know this the rifle association here, the little motto is that guns don't kill people, people do you know they're real.
Organised, but there's a thing I'm going to send to you about the gun control crowd of scent wanting donations recently and I'm sort of tempted to send them some money because I think that they're on the right track if they could get rid of these what they call Saturday night.
Specials which are like $40 that is what most people are being killed with and that's what Hinckley and the other Heinley used anyway because that was an American I don't know what the guy killed the boat worth or shot the boat worth but Hanckley was using one of these cheappo guns and they claim that if they could get rid of these cheap guns they're what people buy to shoot other people because anybody that's really interested in gun collecting they spend hundreds and they're not buying guns to shoot people with and I don't you know see any harm in people having guns and collections and stuff they're a little bit overboard.
About here a man his dog's got a gun, I mean, even Kent, you know, John's word carries a gun.
In this car well can you imagine having a damn gun in your car I mean it's just unbelievable anyway, but this crowd and I see mea Jackson's one of the people that's not and so's Martin Luther King senior.
For the local here but they're trying to get up some money because this rifle associations extremely wealthy and they're very political and trying to compete with them I'm tempted to send them something but this a little article that they sent with their advertisement to try and raise funds was very interesting Oh I know what we had last night we went to the school Pe.
 we it' stand at6 o'clock. what was funny. Sally and I were both short of money this week and we were laughing, she said,  I doesn't get some money today, I just don't know what we're going to eat.
So she was telling No about it the night must have been Tuesday night.
I said, why are you having't good dinner on night, Sunny and she said.
Chicken and corn. And I said, so wait.
So the next day we werere talking and La and said why aren't you girls sit together on the picnic because we were taking our own food you could buy a Kentucky friryed chicken and they had a meal or planned, you know it was just Kentucky fry at the thing and they were going away free Coke and there was free ice creams for the kids and there was a cake stall so you could buy cake which people were buying and just they were cutting up large cakes and selling up by the piece for dessert.
Oh anyway, so really.
He said, whyhy didn't we get together on our picnic because that's what we'd done last year And but both of us had sort of felt we didn't really have enough money to go buy anything, you know exotic for a picnic together. So she called me and she was having to make some stuff for the cake stall and she't I better get math together I'm not gonna to have the brownies made and I said I said what are you making because I said I didn't like buying things from cake stalls but if I know who's made it I'll buy it I said what are you making she said, well the packet of brownie mix that I'm using us they forget it I don't want it But anyway because she makes real good brownies on.
of her own recipe but she was just using a cake mix for the school anyway so I said well sorry just she said what are you having for the pem and I said leftover chicken I said what are you having she said leftover chicken so what we did in there and we got those little I don't know whether we had them home but here we have these little cane plates that you put a paper plate inside which really makes it nice for a paper plate outdoor was the damn thing them fold up on you you know and they're real cute outside and I said Ron'm just gonna put make up a French bread roll and put the chicken salad and all that in there mayonnaise for those that do and those that don't and just a few grapes and I made some stuffed eggs and we had a little nap.
And a cap and and when I'd made a cake I just made a pound cake with pe arms some cinnamon and stuff on top and cut a piece of cake out mine it visually wrapped everything and I just put all on the plate I said that way don't have to mess putting it all together at the picnic I just give them all a plate and they've already got their preorders one has tomatoes one doesn't and one has't mayonnaises and one doesn't Im just gonna throw that sucker at them and they've got it she said man that's a great idea I said well let me send you down some cane plate so I sent them down to there and then they I forgot to take a rug to the picnic so they all arrived and.
We all got our picnic plates out and we dished them all out and we really did pretty well for two women that and they would go to the grocery store and catch a check anyway so we all got to the picnic it was started at sex and the weather was once again little cool you know we had like I had a sweatshirt on you know and Rachel had a sweater on she's always usually hot but and they were so excited to see the kids because usually see they didn't play in the school around after school and that like they do in New Zealand so they really gonna to get to play with the kids everybody was there it was just as scrap as it could be and we all set out under the trees with our either Kentucky fri or whatever and.
 ceremony for the fifth grade is their graduation, you know and they all get as certificate and theyre leaving you see to go to Sutton and what did we did we had I had to go into the kitchen and give out ice creams for an hour and they had a fancied dress it was a Western night they had horses there and ponies and a popcorn machine and you know it was really very cute and the kids all dressed up in a western gear and made them wore a teen gellon hat and he wanted a mustache he had a musttache which unfortunately by the time the judging came his moache he had been washed off and they didn't have it any longer it just looked like a dirty mark you know and part of his face and anyway it was unfortunate.
Because theyd all thought it was a Western that they had to dress up as Western the kid that won it had a regular, you know, really fancy bought suit well hell you can't compete with that when you dressed in your Western gear and he won, which is a bit unfair because I think if they said it was Western it should have been Western he was dressed as a dog, you know a collar and a furry suit and the whole bit.
And which, you know looks cute, but it's not very imagin of and you know, it's been made or brought, you know somewhere.
Anyway.
So then we had that. and then they played baseball and it was great last year. It rained on picnic night. and it was just a fiasco. we had the whole thing inside. you know, all those kids and their parents and the noise and the clamoring and last night I thought Lord, if it rained tonight the weather just didn't look bright And you know, it's so unusual for that to happen. anyway, the weather was fine and it was just a little cool, which is probably nice because if it's too hot, you know when they're out playing baseball Well, you know, it just made all the difference with having those fifth graders outside the fourth and fifth graders, they don't even want to stop to eat they just want to play baseball, they're very into it, I mean, they played raws some of the black kids come dressed up like they're ready to be professionals at any moment.
You know they've got all their gear on and you don't mess with the rules when they're all playing and so we watched there was two baseball games going so we watched that and the fathers were all involved and that was nice and they had sack races and they had bubble gum competitions and yeah it was really fun and we all just sat out under the trees and the teachers meled and chatted and it was really very nice and it was from six to8 at 10 past eight a sprinkle of rain and never actually did rain but I just felt a few sprinkle with of rain I thought well thank goodness so we just got it over in another of time but it was a very nice evening everybody seemed to enjoy themselves.
Well Walter and Marcisha are going down to St Simon's this weekend for two or three days and I think theyll leave tomorrow anyway.
So Marsh's aunt in England died the other day.
S on Monday, must have been, she said, you wouldn't believe it she'd called her sister so many times had just been so, I'd hate to have you a telephone be this month there calls to Aussie and stuff and so she decided that since they weren't going to be able to go the funeral or anything anyway and her sister had just left and she just called her to say that she'd arrived home safely, she thought well, Ill send her a cable well she sent her a cable at half past four and the sister called back at something like half past six she couldn't believe it, just couldn't believe her.
What's that correct?
Well, I've been busy at work, I did a trip for a guy today, him and his wife were going from Lunchburg, Virginia and they going up to DC National Airport at Washington DC, flying to Las Vegas for a conference Liberty Baptist Church, we have a big account from the Liberty Baptist Church in Virginia.
And what the heck they have a conference in Las Vegas for I wouldn't know one has.
Suspicions about these all these religious people anyway, he's taking his wife so I had to get them down there and cheap fair and there's so many hundred fairs in this country and it's really very tricky because you know that's the whole thing an airline is in the fortunate position for instance Delta theyt have to deal with Delta fars, they're not going to sell anybody else's so they don't care but we have to compete and we have to give the people the best prize I mean if you don't next thing they come back they how I got to flown on Piedmont for half you know they have a 50% discount what these people don't realize is they're called Hococh fairs they mean Hococh you've it's got to have at least.
One stopover now businessmans not interested in that class, there's only certain flights you know, and there's all these Y 819 fars to Chicago and New York and all the stuff burning plan certain flights and of course they only reserve so many seats at that fair.
It's very complicated and inevitably the times don't suit to something but if a person comes back to you afterwards complaining that you didn't give it to them they always say, oh yeah, I wouldn't have mind doing this that and the other thing but if it always happens ahead of time oh no it doesn't suit and they're always prepared to pay for fare I mean the reductions are fantastic and they're well worth it but they don't always suit a businessman and of course they don't apply to a first class fair anyway and most of the businessmen do play first class but anyway this computer is justgra now for instance today I wanted to find out what the diabetic meal would be.
board and so I find out you know we'll flight there on everything and look up the menu for that Dan you know that damn thing tells me that they have great fruit and let that and the other thing for breakfast and so so on and so and so lunch and how many calories are and how many in the case of a di how many carbohydrates and oh it was just amazing and then this man going to Vegas you know I got them booked and he was staying at the Tropicana which he said well now I've never been to Las Vegas can you send me a bit of information I was sending out as tickets so I got him a whole lot of junk on late Me and Hoover dam and different things out of Vegas which I thought maybe wouldnt trust a religious person a little more I'm sure if he really.
Religious hill I've had Vegas after five days and all those casinos and everything so then I thought well I better have give them the up to date showlu and we have show list sent to us from Vegas Vegas probably Vegas or in Florida have the biggest publicity stunt going that anybody could possibly have the stuff that comes in from those two places it's just phenomenal just phenomenal I mean even from New York we don't get as much as coming from there I mean that's the only business and so course especially Vegas there's been a fortune on advertising and it's mostly just hotels.
 casinos Florida's more tours and things. but anyway I got them whole lot of junk together and then I have this show list, which is shows that are on in Vegas course there's always so many and I don't know what date it had on it it was reasonably reason but it was like March I think Sam he's going on the 1 of June So really it was pretty outdated So I pull up put into my little computer put G for genie slash briefing Bflash SHO for shows slash L for Las Vegas and up flies every hotel was every show who's singing what dates they're there and I just printed.
That.
So yeah I did that today and.
Oh Pats isn't a mad panic. ATC or on about. She's forever, mustn't her ATC payments. So mean, they can certainly put you out of business and they will eventually it's I would say, although that woman is remarkable, just remarkable in some respects, you know, was coming up she's just as crazy as ever and one wonders if you'll be in business another week, but this tape's about to run out. So love you all and happy days, I don't know what it must be about Queensb their weekend mustn't not coming up.