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Well, I think you can guess where Kaysh was from, he's a good old Aussie mate, right?
And he's on Q 94 here.
Always gives a touch of home or at least from Down under when he's on the radio. Well, it's about one o'clock in the morning it's Tuesday the must be 12 of May we went to Marshham Walters for dinner tonight for the last supper with Sister Marie from us she's from Melbourne.
And you can just imagine the fun that they've had the months she's been here laughing and joking and carrying on. And as they said, they can't even all live in the same country, they all live in different countries. Marsha was born in Canada that they all were brought up in Har. Their mother was a not press singer. and this one is married to a guy who's an engineering draftsman or whatever, and he's English, and they live in Melbourne. One lives in New London, course Marshall lives here.
So, they're a scattered bunch.
And we went over and had beef strogan off and a beautiful meal with him this evening. It was very nice. And just for the last time, Mara's sister bought me some delicious months. We had some months for our dinner. and funnily enough, You know, I said, how nice these were And her sister was so through what she went away and got me. So I I'd done some all of her trailer arrangements and she'd been here. She'd had a really nice trip. all I did for it really, which she just went up to Washington for four days, but I got it a very nice hotel. Of course, we were all thinking should you.
hir0 bucks a night dinner what hotels and like in Washington and New York such like, but finally, I managed to get her into a hotel on Capitol Hill for $54 a night and turned out that she got a room that was posted on the back of the door with a $90 room It was overlooking the Capitol building. She could walk to a lot of things from where she was and have had two big double beds and fourear chairs and she was just in a lamp of luxury.
And she went up on her own. her husband came here with her, but he went on to England, and she just stayed here. She hasn't been too well. So were a little concerned about how she'd be anyway. She had planned to do an extensive trip by herself but a tour. But at the last minute, she decided not to do that because of her health. But anyway, she's okay. She has a strange thing though, she's lost all the pigmentation on her skin. So she can't be exposed to even light. you know, ultra ray effect very badly. I think caused skin cancer or something. And she has to have an umbrella.
With all time, which is interesting.
Anyway, we've done a few things with her. She's a nice person just as mad as Marsha. So well get on very well. And the other day we went, we decided to take a or tomorrow. she's coming briefly to have a look through this house here, but.
Not the cottage Jack won't take re long, but the big house manager wants to see it and Susie's going to Tennessee tomorrow because her mother's having an operation, a small cancer operation and apparently one that they're not terribly worried about and but last week Bert Lanceer's house sold last year I remember I sent to the clippppings of it well this man bought it and then each year here in the city the decorators get a house that has either been not being loved in or whatever usually man.
And they get a room each to decorate so we decided this would since it was B Lance's house and had some gossip value that we would take her through that, but anyway it turned out really as a very historic home here it they had all the parties for gone with the at the very house and Vivian Lee sat on the floor apparently telling gogglelid men about her racy stories and such life and it's a beautiful home it needs a lot of work doing on the outsider and and of course the land.
It is a lot less than it once was, but.
Anyway, you know you know, it must be a year since Bt L moved out of it and from start to finish the entire day it was just hilarious.
I met them at 1 o'clock. Masha had arranged and I meet them. We left from the second Pi of Poste Leon Baptist Church. There was a shuttle service from there. Thank goodness, because there' cars parked for miles. we wish to get the little shuttle bus from the car park there. Well, I got caught in traffic. And I didn't get that all about 114. And Maa jumps out of the car and says, well you're late and with missed the bus. And I said, well, I'm sorry, I got caught up in the traffic. Now I'm about to give sister Maria tickets. and Maras the womans a week lease that you'd given me.
Such like. And she said, I lift my keys in the car. Locklock my keys in the car And I said, oh my God, So I run over the car to check the sheet is locked all the doors and everything. It's only a two door car. Well, De I actually, the engines running sure enough, she had lift the car. the car running and then locked them keys in the car. It was just hilarious from there, we didn't know we were going go first, whether we needed to go to I couldn't get the story straight, whether we had to go to Walter and get a key to the house to get the other set of keys or whatever. But it would have been.
 hardd to get in the car. And we went't really that far from her apartment. So finally, we decided we'd go to the apartment. and Walter usually leaves a spare set of keys at home for the car.
And then of course, sister Maria once she knew the car was still running, wouldn't leave the car for some reason we were laughing what the hell she was going to do with it and you can tell AuntLi on the way home I was telling Marsha about Auntio taking me up to Lars's house and I said to her, but I can't get through the window and she pushes me says, of course she car of course she car or she pushes me through this tiny window then Marcia was laughing Miss that's just the sort of thing that their mother would have done she never would take no for an answer anyway we were just in a.
 we get to the apartment block and the office must placed her key and then we finally get the car keys and we get back system where' still waiting with the car the shutle bus has pin by about three times and everybody on boards and the stirics.
And then we get to the mansion. Well, at's five bucks they had to go through. So we pay our money and we go through. and And of course, it's very exotically, you know, arranged. And of course, it has no continuity because they each decorator does the rums they play.
And festival, sister Marie has this wretched umbrella. one of those the cheap old folding variety festival, the knob drops off. So she's chasing that door over the floor. and we finally catch hold of the knob. and we' get back on the umbrella. And then she's got a hanging around the rust. and the chain breaks off. So whole umbrella spttles across the floor. where she kind gets that together. And the next thing, we're you know, bounding through rooms at the station. of course, all the elite little ladies of Atlantalan are there're all.
Giving their opinions of the antiques and stuff like and we're all giving our true opinions of what we really feel how ridiculous some of the things are. And the next thing she has one these handbags with a chain over a shoulder fat gave broken hand went all over the floor. By this time, we were just amazed. And then we get up I here another something the floor. I thought it just has to be out of ma big gold earrings. What out of her ear and rolls across the floor. I mean, it was just.
Thesterical. So we were just three giggling, silly people. And we came to a room. theres 52 rooms in this house. We' all been decorated. And we come to this room. And there's this man whos taking his job terribly seriously. And he's telling all these people about how wonderful the furniture and how it all been import from exotic countries and how valuable everything is and the stable was worth $25000 and the sta was with us and that. And we were giggling out in the hall, we couldn't get into the room that he was talking to talking and, And he said, would you please pay attention like we were in some classroom or something.
That just issue shouldn't have said that does, we're in no state to cope was coming like that.
The would damage.
If we the house was really, very, very nice, you know, but anyway, there was a lot of things, because we didn't like And that were just totally impractical. Well, then we get down to at the very end of the tour, they have a little tea shop. you know, and we all, well have tea. So course you know you what, they think of tea. They think of the iced tea. So we all said yes, we'll have tea, please. And the lady said, we like it sweetened or' not And we said ma andan you, of course, the chi iced tea. So we, no, we want hot tea, please. Oh that threw them.
 complete panic so they go away and I they send me off to get a table outdoors, so I go out and I'm finding the table.
And then they come out just about killing over, couldn't hold themselves together much longer. But they had they said, well, that was finally the statement of the day. And I said, what, they said the lady behind the counter said that she wished we'd never come in there. First of all, we've been through this beautiful, beautiful mansion. And they start saving us tea and paper cups, which sort of, you know, was a bit of a damper after one would expect at least the China of teac having been through this big mansion. They would dealta cups too from the airline. And she had these long plastic spoons.
She'd put the tea bags in and Marsha told her she didn't want the tea bags left on there because her and I don't take any milk because we didn't want the tea bags left in there to have syrup.
She couldn't get the tea bags out. They got twined in the spoon. and she couldn't get them out. And the other two ladies, there was no else in the tea shop at the time. and the other two ladies were just standing staring at this woman and the more that were helping. and the more they stared out the more panic struck and she gotten the worst things seemed to get and couldn't get the damn tea bags out and she finally turned into them and said that she wished wed never ever come into her little tea shop joking, of course, But dear it was funny day. And then of course, I get home and I was running late thing because we'd waste.
A lot of time with all this keys business.
I get home. and, I was late and. It was about was about 10 minutes late and sunny'd on to Clayton for the weekend. So she wasn't home. And Matthew, of course, hadd gone with her. And the kids are standing at the corner and I what the hell are they doing cause they lick themselves into the house. You know, they perfectly capable of coming in and getting themselves out to. They're standing up the corner jumping up down. And so I get there and they stop me and jump into the car. And oh, we've got baby jus, baby jus. And we did. We've got five little baby jubils. they just sucks.
And you know we'd read all about them and everything and of course, you know it was really funny and Rachel has been waiting for months for these gs to be born thinking that they were never going to have babies.
And she must have been talking to Miss Fi the other day. she said, Miss first, I haven't seen the mother of a joyable for age. She never comes outside her little house any more. Missus Fy, why, Rachel, have you heard any squeaking. And Rachel said, yes, and, if we, youve got babies, of course.
Get little babies. And so Rachel comes home well damn me if we have of all the damn things. And course Rachel goes back to school the next day. And I told't you so Anyway, So we've got five off them. And we had read that, you know, cannibalism does exist with them. but we also read that it's a lack of vitamins. So we had been putting that special expensive vitamins,6 bucks of damn bottle into their water. And hopefully that will resolve the situation. The other thing is that you can take the mail away. But we decided that this was nature. And we would leave the mail in there because they.
Be real happy together. And sure enough, they're really, you know, taking care of these little babies real well and makens are very excited because they're his little mother that produced these babies and Rachel Glens well if it hadn't been for her male. They wouldn't have. And the males taking great care off them. too. It's just, you know, they're just doneling and they're wriggling around. And all five of love. none have died. And isn't apparently any rs at the stage. The runs soldiers just kick a eye. So all us going grew well with the jubils. The kids would just beside themselves and Amanda and Matthew have been up at their ground.
Other was still today because Lane and Sunny had been away to some historic thing down on Brunswick.
On the coast, South Georgia. And they got back tonight where each I and just couldn't wait to get down and bring them up to see the new jubils. Anyway, well, I guess you know, there's a lot to tell you, I can't think really where to begin.
Oh, one of the other funny things that happened, Bmer going through this house. And when we were just in such a stic. finally, this woman who had been apparently waiting for the bus when Marcia and Marie had first got to it had came over to us and said, I'm going to join you too. She said, you seem to be having so much more fun than everyone else Man's explanation was that everybody's being pseudo serious and taking the whole thing. you know, terribly, you know how people do with antiques and all that sort of stuff. And especially when they're rattling off these expensive of items and how much better Lance had paid for the.
Somehow Philer had all these familyandelierlies sent in from Venus and August Jack.
Anyway, so well, going back, wonder if I should cover your tape first, I will, I think.
And going back to months later. I have really hadn't covered all that was match dead having two ones in a row. But I agree, Yes, sure, the second for I should have been the $12000, but maybe third time, lucky.
Then, of course, there Prince Charles' tour. and of course, all the publicity here at the moment is the telephone calls back to Lady Diana and all the gossip. I gather. you know, he did say a few things, but nothing that's of any significance. And the whole thing's been blown out of proportion. Mar sister to says that the going very repub over there. and it's sort of the trend, you know, to be almost anti royalist.
Plus, she was very humiliated about the response that he got. One of the universities, I think it was, you know, she was appalled at the way he couldn't even make a speech. Apparently, there was so much trouble going on.
Oh, you ask got a jacuzzi as a jacuzzi's a pull, a whirlpool. You know, that they have an all water w around and. That's all nothing. All that exotic. Goodness, the old man's home that you were telling me about sounds the real hoot knew quite right. It's disgrace. But however, as Dan said, we would the old bugggs be if they went there.
Yeah, I was sorry to hear that you didn't see the space shuttle go off, but we finally didn't either. We all got up early in the morning. We wake up about 5 o'clock to especially see and John, of course was away with Graham and Bob at the time. And then, of course, Sunny and I were in communication. I called her. and she said, we seem to be in a holding pattern. So we decided to rush them off to school knowing that they would all see it at school if it were on. But as it happened, Maglon's teacher didn't let them say or whatever happened. I don't know. Rachel Sp did, I would have thought that had to TV on or morning, especially since they had the.
The mere's budget on TV, which was of great interest, as you can imagine to the children anyway, And you know, as you said, you saw the landing and really the landing was just such a precision thing. And it really was a thrill. And it sort of you saw more of it than you did the big cloud of smoke and the way up on TV anyway.
And I think had you gone down there, You'd have been so far away from it. You probably naturally, you saw more on television and the coverage was better. And they explained everything. too. Well, of course, the attempt of assassination, I think, just shocked everybody as all these things are done. That's been a big view in cryry about guns. And Kennedy's back on the Vanwagon Ca he's a big, you know.
guum man or you know against guns and stuff And but I think they have incredible thing have the secretaryary or whatever is he was, his survived his brain surgery you everything else and really I think the whole nation was just thrilled to hear him when he said something about oh they want to know the doctor's name and when they told him and they said," what do you want to know the doctor's name for he he said want to know the joke is asking him me all these dumb questions and something which just was fantastic news.
But, you know, you've really got a hand it to Reagan. I think I think I sent you the.
Cutting that Lewis Grzaard wrote, that kind of said at all.
The royal tour here was like home that was busy and rushed the incredible thing was that the when I sent Marsha's sister up to Washington to up on the 1 of May and that was a Friday and I said to her now you must see the White House either Friday or Saturday because she was coming back Monday because it's not open Sunday Monday and she was going that Tuesday I think anyway.
She gets up there. And I said, now, you found out about it right away so you can get on the tour to go through it. Of course Prince Charles was' in town it wasn't open at all. Anyway, one of the tours she did did circle the White House or whatever, and sort of showed them what they could without going in there. And she said to somebody want all these helicopters flying around. And somebody said, oh, it's the security for Prince Charles. And they were just sort of standing there having a look around. I guess they were at Lafayette Park just across the way. And she said helicopter Bobs down about 50 yards away.
 who should jump out. But Bnch Charles, she was right next to him just about. So that was fun for her. She really had a good time in Washington. She thoroughly enjoyed it, and.
I saw everything she wanted to see and really crammed in a whole lot of stuff.
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Oh, you mentioned the checkequs, of course, we've received them. We've banked them, but we have withdrawn the funds and spent them. I had gotten mate on this fabulous electronic baseball. And you know, he's just absolutely out of his brain over there because he didn't expect to get it because he'd been gloating over in the books. And, you know, he saw how expensive it was. And when he woke up that morning. That was all he got. man was he excited. He was one very happy little boy. Then we had his party, of course, with 17 little boys. And he really to get a lot of presents And they were beautiful.
And you know, he really had a nice day. They were super little guys. and they're all good friends. and they played baseball, and they swam. Susie had the pool filled only because the meat were coming to sing in the garden and have dinner. And so she got it filled early, which was amazing. But of course, it was pretty cold. they swam. but they weren't in like the whole afternoon because the water was a little cold. And don just been done like a couple of days before they just finished chlororinating out and stuff. But.
The checks you mentioned the funny business about they wouldn't give you three checks will I laugh, because when I turned that check over to counterign it or you know, sign the thing on the back, they, I don't know whether they've got a copy of the check, even because the carbon paper had been back to front. So the carbon was on the back of the checks. So they may have their record of you having added a check. So you might mention that tiolioligar at the bank.
But anyway Matlo party went off for a while. We had it from one to five on this must have been the Sunday the3 of May and it was the same day Suie had the met here and they all came at one o'clock and what they do first is they all played baseball and he was just in those element and we'd bought him a baseball bat and ball he had a glove and it's just mad on baseball at the moment so they all played baseball and then they went swimminging and then they came back and went just an American you know.
Easy way out the American way, hot dogs and popcorn and lots of catch mustard of course.
And it was funny because Shane, one of his little friends whose father's big in Coca Colla.
And who makeland's assessment of admiration runs that they have coke on tap like you do in the bars And if, you know, just done one of those, you just push a button to tab or tabs the di free or sprite, which is like lemonade. And7 apple whatever of the Coke runners and he has the home. And you just push the one you want. And there's a spray thing like one of those things you have in the sink. you know, to clean the dishes And anyway, but Sha's got something wrong with him. He's very slow. He forgets everything. just forgets.
I mean he forgets to tell his mother he's got a report in his bag he just forgets everything and he's very, very taller, a lot lot taller than any other kid in the class and apparently, well she explained it to me the other day that it was a weird explanation but he has a brain allergy and at the moment there he got him on this very rigidstruct diet to check all his allergies and see if this foods affecting him and apparently it does food affecting him and they've got to take him off all these things well he wasn't allowed to have any hot dogs or anything as far as that went, she bought him some yoga plain yoga.
An apple. And she said he had to have those, and he was being pretty good about it And he would have them. But I said well she kidt have a hot dog. And she said, well, I guess he could have one, but he mustn't have the bread. So anyway, the time came to the hot dogs And he said to me. hes all beef hot dogs. And I said, I don't know whether they're all beef because you know anything like hot dogs or anything. You just really don't know what's said to me about three times. these all beef hot dogs. Well then I come into the kitchen and we've got little Adam Suivan who's just as cute as can be one of mys little friends who's got chestnuts sort red here.
Dark Rige, you know, beautiful here and of course he's Jewish, his fathers the head of the cardiac unit down at Piedmont Hospital.
And both Adam, who's in Rachel scars. I mean, Joel was in Rachel Scs and Adams and Ma on scars. The two brothers are very studious types. I've told you about Joel before. He's not very athletic. He always asked me if he can be score people when we're up down P. And anyway, Adam is just real cute and very intelligent and all in the class column De of Silverman because he studies things me he thinks he's a detective. And anyway, he came out to me and he said to me.
Are these hot dogs kosher. And I said, well, no, doesn't matter, Adam. And he said, oh, no, he said, but I just like to know. are they kosher. And I said, well no, I don't think they are. And he said, but that's okay. And I laughed they kosher. my hot dogs had to be this And the other thing. I get real fussy. but little Adam. He didn't sort of, he's not into baseball match. So he, I found him out on the back step. we keep a key in, in a magnetic tin. you know, we just poke it up a drain pipe.
And he'd found the key. And he'd kicked. we always have to, Oh, it's actually the the bannister of the handra to get up to the house. And it's just a tube. And we just take it up there. And we kick it and it drops out, Sa well we want it. And he'd discovered this. And he kick up his kids it out and night, I'm looking at him. now, what the hell is he doing. And you staring at this key. And I said, Adam, what are you doing, And he said.
I'm memorizing this key And I said I didn't like to be so ignorant as to ask why And he said, I've memorised 10 of them I said well, that's interesting. And I felt out saying well I hope you find a use for these things shortly and he said very interesting He sounded like doctor oh was our doctor's not anyway, Aro So anyway, sometime later.
I'm out hanging up the all of we towels on the line. and Adam comes back out again, and he kicks the pipe, tot make the key drop out and he says, well, back to the drawing board. He gets the key out again. Nny comes up to me. he's standing staring at the key and staring at the lock and he says, this is a very interesting case. And I said, why, And he said, well, this is a I don't know an eye key or something. And this is an H lock. not compatible, interesting. but somehow.
It works like Maxwell smart, but he apparently when his mother came, I was telling her she's just a very, very nice. She's a real lady, a very sort of fine woman you would call a very nice and I was telling her about him and she said, oh I know he's just awful. She at home he has these lists of fees that he charges for his for his cases and he's Deive Silverman and he has it's 25 cents an hour for a regular case and 50 cents an hour.
For the more difficult cases, we took him out kite flying one day. And anyway, were on the way home and, you know, his parents are not without a few bow, I shouldn't imagine. And he said, oh he had to be home in a certain time because they were going out for dinner and he said.
Oh we said, I like, we're going out with my grandfather tonight. And he said, I like that. And we said, oh, that's nice, Adam. And he said, yes, I. have a rich grandfather. My grandfather's very rich. We were laughing. And he said, he gave me a silver dollar. He gives away silver dollar.
He's just adorable. Anyway, So the birthday party went off without Nis. And then, of course, that night was the we had the Metropolitan Opera Hill, which was fascinating. And they were all dressed up to an arms, as you can imagine wandering around the pool and the food was that of any castle. and John was chief chauffeur and rushing up and down the path with all these people.s about 100 people there. Anyway, it's funny because we've often laughed that he only uses the Toyota to drive these people.
D the drive, you know, when you think that they could use them the Mercedes, the Ros Royce would hold a lot more people, but they never do anyway, the other9 he's been up and down the drive a couple of times already. And Eddie he comes running out and says, oh, John, John, oh, I forgot forgot to tell you who said tonight, I'd like you to use the the gold Mercedes. So John had to swap cars right here and then obviously, when he has some standards. anyway, John, course most of these people. And I think I told you in the later that one woman said.
Traveed Australia and New Zealand nine times on tour. and it was really quite a night, I imagine quite actually we had a big big thing and Ba wrote this week because I sent you a clipping of Mr. Braswell and course he's so much younger. And last Friday night Muhammad Ali was there for their fundraising for cerebral palsy and that was the night that he announced that he's giving $400000 to the children's fund you probably had publiclyity of it being that Muhammad Ali so popular. but he said that the hundred thousand00 that was being offered was pathetic that you couldn't em buy.
I was Royce with 100000 and said he was given $40000. You've got to admit the man as generous, whether or not it's.
There has been some coming that that would just entice small sort of cos and funny calls. But, you know, I don't know. I mean, if 100000 doesn't.
Get some information. I don't suppose 500000 Well either, but it's certainly tempting. And what I didn't realize was that the10000, of course, is now, as the case is bill, it's only whatever information you give leading to1,2 or three cases, It's a percentage job. And even the 500 thousand0 worked out at only 18 and a half thousand0 per case kind of thing. If you were only to give information on one case, so.
I imagine that information though, when it does come and will relate to many of them.
It seems that many of them have been done. But by one person. But you asked if there was any truth in the fact that some of these children were murdered by the parents. And I believe that there is truth in that that's been blown out of proportion. But at the same time, prior to us all being added up this way. These people from these very low socioeconomic groups. And these are the lowest. you know, these people are very poor. there was always, you know, apparently the statistics are that 9 or 10 children go missing or murdered every year anyway. So, you know, this is a little.
Normal, there was also an article on the paper this weekend huge one that there are some guy that's a priest that's runs some runaway children's place. He claims there's as many as two million children missing in the United States at any one time. And there's definitely, you know, just hundreds of thousands of children run away every year and are'm not located because if they cross state lines, there's nothing they can do about it. So you know, it's a very complicated and difficult thing. then of course, there was the other thing about I think.
I mentioned to you about the white homosexual thing that which has just been gross and suck and horrible where these kids were being put into the witness box and couldn't even open their eyes to tell the terrible things that they'd been up to and had to do and of course it's because theyre say poor well they do it for money and that has been going on they think for 20 years and it's very very wide spread and it's very very big and very organized and there are no black people involved in that that's all white people so you know.
Different thing again from this mood of business. I still feel it's got to be a black person that's doing it because these kids, as from such poors, they really, really see a white person.
But you know, when you're taking these little kids for PE and you see these little always see these kids well because they've met it a few older ones lately, but generally they've been halfwes, you know or whatever and small builds, So mostly they could have been mistaken for younger children, but it seems that somebody knows that they're half whs or whatever. but when you see these little kids playing on pe these little black kids, you know, theyre just so cute and it just breaks your heart to think that this is going on and they certainly must be frightened, but I.
I think I might be about to run out on the site but you know, they've got this who is it who's the black comedian Bill Carlsby is the cartoon character in a new book that they've got out called it's a child safety book you know don't speak to strangers neverate candy and all that general thing it's a coloring book but put out in every single kid in every school that one Well Ma came out the other night I thought she mar her sisters never going to understand this most when I were in a stirics, but you know she's going to think and well she told people were saying youre not going to it length I like, she was going to have to be locked.
I wasn't so frightened to go out, you know, and she's never going to understand when.
Well, Yoho, Yoho, This is side too. And I was just going to tell Ma came out and said, hey, mom, where's my murder and missing children's colouring book and honestly, we just.
I just about curled up I mean I couldn't laugh in front of him but sunny and I were just laughing and Sunny said' because you know they found so many in the Chaahhoin just recently and sunnyny were saying, oh yes well now heres a nice colouring, here's one light on a bango just colour this one now I mean it was just terrible.
But you know, it's become just to such horrendous proportions.
Mara and Walter took sister Marie to visit a friend of their who lives on the Chatahoochee. and I was talking to her dad or too later and I she was saying, oh, we had a lovely time you know, their friend's place and we all satAT down by the river.
For the afternoon and just sit out in the sun drink us what were waiting for bodies to float by you but of course I mean people just there's been so many bodies just floating down the river that you know, one expects you can be literally sitting out having a Sunday afternoon drink and see a damn body float by, it's just terrible.
Well now getting back to a bit of your letter, the floods sound like they've really been bad.
I guess there's been a lot of lossessses and things you've probably read about this thing they called them they call it sinkhole or something in Florida where the land just drops away, they use so much of the water underneath and then all of a sudden land just they lost six Porses down it this weekend and it just seems to be continuing on it's just a phenomenal thing it must be amazing to see.
And you've got the spring book tour going on there at the moment I was interested to see Father headlines again and Margaret Haywood, I haven't completely or thoroughly read that clpping yet, but it doesn't say that she wrote the book I lost sort of track of who wrote the book and what it's called it's not about I messed up anyway anyway you mentioned that Margaret Haywood would wrote the book and I know her very well. she was a aunton and I can't remember whether she was secretary when I was prison or what but I knew her pretty.
Well and she was definitely in Zonta when he died and I can't remember what she did after he died because of course she was out of a job and that's probably why she wrote a book, I mean that's always a good way of earn a few above if you can do it but she was really quite a nice person I always quite liked Margaret she's a nice person.
Anyway, social creditors they are taking over the other party, but I never did understand their party politics, I don't know have they changed or what.
Frank Gil was the name that you were searching for the idiot they sent to Washington, and my guess is still there, I'm going to have a look around the gold dust tomorrow Ill ring a couple of printers.
Well the catist that could seem to have done okay we haven't had the results back yet but as you said, father covered it well lot if they have not done as well it's because they were feeling well that day well that completely clears them of any guilt or whatever but the funny thing is they've tested meland to going to this first class and he was just so funny he was really excited about being tested God I hope he gets into her class because he really wants to be in there and I guess it's the sort of a status somewhere but I've explained to him that really doesn't matter it's just for a certain.
 child that might like to be he may well yeah if he doesn't get in there it's probably because he'd be really much happier in his own middle class but if he does well there's a lot of hard work and extra work you'd have to do but of course when you' put old sister in there it's kind of I suppose hard for him to think that he's not in there or something and he sees all the extra things that she does that are fun and they go on field trips and things that the other kids just don't do something because they have to Rachel being in there they have to complete their own work plus her work and you know there's a lot.
Hard work involved but anyway if the criteria for the test is on the result of one question that he told me the other day I'm afraid we may well not have passed the test, I'm glad he just sleep out I'd hate him to hear me Daniel you he said to me he's been over the day he's kind of remembering different things that he had to do it's mostly jigsaw puzzles and you know IQ type things but they asked weird questions well he thought they were weird he said she asked me some words and did I know what they meant I didn't know what they meant and of course it's pointless.
 think a kid that didn't know what a word meant what the word was because you can't even remember what if you didn't know what it was, you didn't remember what the word was.
So I said what they sound like and he couldn't realize that haven't you ever heard Daddy and I used them and he said no and I no well so I didn't know what those words with but then all of a sudden he came up with us he said, one of the questions was they asked me where bacon came from and I said, yes and he saidWell I didn't know"
I couldn't believe it I mean my astonishment was so great and I said you didn't know and he said no I didn't know where bacon came from oh my god so I said where does pork came from and kind of looked at him oh my god I heaven but here we are eats bacon all the time he didn't know where it came from and I guess you know this you've been told you don't know well I was telling Miss Bagel his class teacher I saidI do hope the he doesn't judged to completely on the one question Miss Bael and she laughed and she said" well there's another one she said.
It's where does milk come from and she said it might sound funny but 90% of it kids save in the supermarket and that's true they're not wrong but she said you know at least they've been on a farm and had milk squted at them out of dead cow's out if they didn't really know."
Anyway.
In the meantime we go on, we're all flat out with all our different activities, talking about schooling though, Charles, the oldest Dson boy has finished his whatevers degree or whatever he was doing at Harvard or his basic, whatever he went there for and now he's been offered a medical a PhD there and he doesn't know whether it wasn't a medical a PhD at Harvard, which only six.
People boss get invited to do and he's one of them but he can't decide because it's six years or he could just go ahead and do a law degree which will take him another three years and she was getting angry with him because she said unless Charles going see in his crystalal War 20 years down the road he kind of you know can't make a decision and they really wanted to do the PhD and apparently he was telling John the other day said they used to laugh about people being professional students but he said I you know sort of feel like I really don't care if they boys are professional students now and you know with kind of money you know what?
Why not you might as well be go to these schools and off toeaton and all the stuff won't bother having a job they don't really need the money so they might as well get the best education they can but anyway it was funny job at the house all the other Saturday and he heard Susie on the telephone and that's sort of funny to hear you don't really know how the milliononees took to their children they're very refined people you know they speak very nicely and actually Eddie called when I was staying there that when Bob and Graham were away.
And he would have one of the nicest speaking voices I've ever heard really it's just he's just an absolute gentleman and just a beautiful smooth sort of voice and no real accenting does the Jewish people often don't have and I guess you know sell a lot on the telephone and it's part of his job but he's just got a really nice he's a lawyer himself anyway.
So I going to tell you.
So no no well Susie was on the phone, he didn't John didn't know which kid she was talking to, but anyway she said, well you're just to spoil little Bt and hang up on him and hit John with a bit of nice to hear a talk about that, but she's just the normal mother I suppose thanks spoilt little Brets, which I suppose they are.
Anyway.
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Oh yes well and your new wardrobe sounds wonderful, doesn't it I pleased and they all thank you Can I but I guess it's certainly the best way to go, It's an embement, it's far better to get a whole bunch of things at one time and leave it up there, but maybe there'll be a a little extra money by the time the springtime pops around to have something to step out in a new springy fashion.
On the size of the children's feet well Granddaughter Rachel has for sure got the same size as you just recently here and I bought some Dr Schhoals, you know the sandals she wanted Sam and I did and they were on sale at Reed Supermarket it was about6 off so I got two pes or damn me if she who fuck a lot narrower than mine if she puts into a six and I take a seven.
And so she has got a big level tutsi whats say very long slum foot, she's got real long legs and.
Where the hell she' got long legs from mom never know because they shouldn't come from me and John's got short legs, so I don't know she's got real us long legss anyway.
 I was going to get to the spending of the money too I bought this fair bitauus it's some turquoise nuts's made of cheese glass and that's got for raffles and I drew you a picture of it but it's really nice and I bought a pink bright bright pink belt to go with the turquoise belt that's weather and some pink bright pink flowers to wear you so the tide on it.
It was real nice and probably your money has gone towards, I may get her something else as well but Rachel needed, she's in the chorus, they're doing the school are doing me popms for or they put it on at other schools at the end of the year and they're going to take it to Holyly Innocence the school and perform up there and she's in the chorus and they all have to wear blue skirts and white long sleeved blouses.
Well the question is where do you buy a white long sleeve blouse at this time of the year I just couldn't get one anywhere I just went everywhere. Finally I just was you know the last resort would have been Matthew you had an Oxford cloth shirt and no boys won but she knew them well at the buttons were on the wrong side and she wouldn't happy about that at all because that's what the boys in the band and that wear the girls wheel have a white Oxford cloth too but you know they look different because the buttons on the other side well finally that JC pen's I in and they' $21 I'm in their pure cotton.
You know you Brooks brother's best and finally at JC Pennning's I managed to get a one and it wasn't pure cotton which I think it's better anyway and it's got a bit of polyester and and it won't be such a pain to iron and I got it for $10 but I couldn't get it a Navyvy skirt I mean you know everything's like you said the purples and the plums and the pinks and turquoises this year and they're all the spring and summer colours now and Navy just wasn't in at all I could not get her a Navyvy skirt anywhere so finally I went into.
She's such a big kid. you know, she fits into a 12 year old sort of you know, bathing suit and stuff like that, just in the length of her body. And she's not thumb, you know, and shes sort of got a pot sort of got a pot tummy and pokes the stomach out and she really is very long in the body And I just couldn't get her anything. So I went into they have the size here called pretes. It's like between the you know, the teenager's clothes and the.
 the kids she's in that ghastly in between stage and I got her size three I think it was skirt which of course I had to cut six inches off but it's very nice it's tailored and it's got a little blue belt goes weather with carriers and it's got an open plea down the front and I cut six inches off it and hemmed it up all again and made it nice and she wore that last Saturday we had the play at the school at the art school on the Saturday and we had to play our vis and it was.
Very exciting. and then they had a.
I play that some of the other they had all kinds of things there was an art exhibition and there was drama and there was all sorts of pieces going on, but then they had a grand sort of thing of this main play that they did which was written by one of Ted Turner Channel 17 people called Disney Live or something and it was sort of all the little Disney Tas all mixed up together and the overall thing was that Dbe couldn't fly the elephant and they finally got them to fly on the end but there was a lot of kids from Jackson and and it was excellent.
all their costumes and it was just fantastic and the guy that runs all this art school he's bribing these kids saying now come on when they room me up and once I'm for an advertisement month you know I want your kids to be able to get the job and you've got to do work and he's bribing them with all this threat of working but anyway this summer you know he's going to be running production of Oliver that I've got the kids signed up for they'll spend the whole summer at the art school both of them and at the end of the summer they'll produce the Broadway show Oliver.
So that should be a lot of fun, but we had a nice day at the arts Festival at the school, this was at Northside High School.
 then she's got to do Mary Poppins with the chorus school plus she's also in Tom Sawyer and then of course we've got the school, I mean the Holy innocence is going on their trip which is to Cerland Island this year and St Simon's and sea Ireland all the best resorts in the country and I'm hoping I'll be able to go along on that all die gather they've got more than sufficient chaperones and you remember last year when they went to the Grand Old Opry,
Told Father Bob didn't go with them but he came and kissed them all the bar and blessed them all and prayed for them and everything else and he said well bring me something back and remember they put him back the picture of Dolly pardon and he had it up on the back of the door and he had all the cl she to visit them the turn round saw Dolly pardon with the big boobs on the back of the door I think this year they decided that he might be better to go with them so he could supervise so they're taking Father Bob with them this year they all pleaded would he come and so Father Bob's going to get on that little vacation with them to cu to and down one.
Anyway, what else I went to church with Rachel on Sunday it was Mother's Day service, it was very nice.
All the kids joined the Ki choir joined the folk Ma choir, of course we had that delicious bread, which I thought of you while we were munching on our homemade bread and the service was quite interesting the minister was telling us about how the doors of the church were always open 24 hours a day which of course is quite unusual these days, especially in this city of crime, but holy innocentnocence and he made a big point of telling us that this was not going to change in the immediate.
As far as they were concerned they wanted the doors of the church to remain open all the time, but one man did not know that the doors were broken and hed broken through a light window and the roof of the church and he came in and he did have got a sort of nuisance damage and of course he said he didn't affect us because the things that he wanted were not the things that we treasure because they were the holy things and the holy things of any value to anybody else sort of thing and he went on of it you but he said that poor unfortunate man did not realize that he could have walked in the doors.
Theres no need to break him through the light and climb down into the building.
Well El Patsy Po remains in business yet another week I don't know how long for they might come and take her away any days, she's just as mad asnox but you know I'm really having fun on this computer it's fantastic and of course the week in St Louis is great and I can't be sorry about that because it's definitely a great experience.
Learning so much about the airlines here is a great advantage as to getting a job later, I should imagine I don't know what you I might have put it to but hopefully some.
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So I'm really feeling quite at home with the computer now I've studied the book pretty thoroughly and I can do most things on it there's an awful lot of information that I don't use and don't have time to use but it would be nice to just study you know and I'm not busy I like to play around and find things out but it's just amazing I mean you get ski reports from all over the country all the shows in New York you know all this useless information but it's really nice to and you can book hotels and cars and oh it's just amazing what you can do on it.
And we were really enjoying using it the girl, the other girl in the office that works there, she's a young girl, she's getting married this Saturday.
So we're all busy, busy with her wedding coming up. Wes here just ridiculous. They, you know cost thousands. And do you know they have a bridesmaid's lunch and they have a dinner, the dinner the night before, which is for the wedding party, the rehearsal dinner, she says it like it's such a normal thing. the rehearsal dinner and that is very common. you know, everybody else didn't even bat I when she said rehearsal dinner, they all you immediately ask what do you mean the rehearsal dinner, she said, well, you have to have the dinner the night before for the rehearsal and that is costing.
 I mean, it's just ridiculous just for the bridal party to all eat out and everybody all the hangers on come and have dinner and they're having fill me yaon and God knows what I mean it's just amazing so I guess that wedding will be setting here father back they had a thing T in Africas there's a lot of weddings on in the moment being the spring and summer and that the average wedding around town last year cost four and a half thousand dollars it's just ridiculous I suppose they talk.
Country clubs and things, but you know, that's what they do because these people really go all out for wes.
Anyway, Patsy went off to Germany last weekend and picked up in Mercedes, I think for a father of this time, so Germany was hit by the mad woman.
Hello, Nna and granddad, guess what Last Thursday Jbos had little babies, and the reason I found out is because when I went to school, I said to Mrs first.
The mother gerbil has been in the house so long and Miss For said, have you heard chirping and I said yes, and then she said, well you've got little baby gbil, the first day we found out the mother had them we looked at them and there was five of them and the mother was tossing them around like they were just tissue paper but then she started taking care of them and when she wanted to go and eat or play on the wheel, the father would sit on them and look after them he normally sits on them the most there were probably about an inch long.
Their tails are probably about a centimeter and their whiskers are not even a part of a centimeter they're so small and they're the cutest things are pink on their stomach and then a blackish purple on the back of them and they're very cute and she looks after them and I went to school and made an announcement that anyone that brings a note from their parents can have one.
And so people all raised their hands but then the next day and continued on for about three days no one ever bought a note so today I told a girl on my bus about them she's been want a grbil and she's a loud one so she said she's gonna bring a note and she'll be probably able to get a grbble Last Friday I went shopping with my mother she picked me out from school and we went to get an Oxford cloth shirt and a navy blue skirt because I was,
Going to be in the chorus for Mary Poppins and Tom Sawyer and we're going to Holy Innocence to do Mary Poppins May 20th.
And go have to memorise all our music and some people haven't memorized it, I have to memorize the music for Tom Sawyer and I've memorized my part because I'm in Tom Sawer and Mrs. Geason, the music teacher, she said there's not a stage at holly innence so we won't be able to take scenery.
Except for the two beds that go in the nursery. So it was just going to be up to us acting and with what we wearing It' past 11 o'clock Eastern time this morning as poppe John Paul the second was on his way to a regular Wednesday audience with about 15000 waiting to see and hear him in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican. The pope was shot. We're now told three bullets pierced his body. The pope immediately was sped back into the Vatican a foot inside an ambulance and taken to the hospital and surgery was begun to pro.
 40 minutes after the pope was shot.
Robert O Miller just reporting from Rome quoting Italian television and radio as saying that the surgery took three hours. It involved the much surgery on the pope's intestinal area. and according to the doctors as quoted by correspondent Miller. The year is hope for the pope's condition The condition looking good for poppe John Paul the second. The suspect being detained by Italian authorities described as a Turkish terrorist by some others, though say the suspect is given various nationalities and were' not entirely sure yet.
Who he is and at last report there is only one suspect involved here, no word or confirmation of earlier reports that other suspects may have been involved in the attack two women were shot today in the attack on folk john pa ii one is being identified by police in ital as an Audre age 60 from buffalo, New york and the other woman a rose hall, a native of jammaica both those women hit by bullets and there are conflicting reports as to the condition of m..
The woman from Buffalo one report says she is critically wounded the other, saying she was shot. But again, to repeat the condition of poppe John Paul, the second is said to be good following three hours of surgery today for removal of three bullets. The pope is now recovering, and we will expect further reports to come from the hospital in Rome where he was taken today. This has been a live special report from ABC New. WgSD time 340.
Well it's now Thursday, the 14th of May if I don't get this done this morning I may navigate it away and the pope of course is doing fine as of this morning I gather and have been shot six times isn't it unbelievable we were in the middle of a luncheon yesterday for Angela who's getting married on Saturday in the office, Patsy was being held for ransom down at the IRS and she got back in the middle of our luncheon and came in absolutely hysterical number one because the IRS had asked how much she had in a pocket.
Tbably how much head in a pocket and the other thing that came in with the news that the pope had been shot in his Poe mobile, I mean the kids really thought that was cute.
But one just wonders where it's all going to end and this guy shouldn't have been out on the loose either, I gather so really whatever next.
We had a busy day at work yesterday day, too, with all this.
Pope stuff and the office was wild as usual and I had to do two tickets they have these unlimited mileage tickets, you know that you can just do as much as you like in 21 days when your first aid doesn't count so it's really 22 days and these two guys are forever doing it this particular ticket had 66 leagues each 66 stops, you know.
And I finally did that and I was just this ticket is worth $567 each they have to pay you have to buy a minimum of two tickets and I worked it out last night that just on one person that's 9,800 on normal coach travel, which is you not first class economy and so it would have been nearly $20,000 ticket for a little over $1200 which is unbelievable on the work that goes into it, the number of tickets a alone costs of fortune every time we punch a ticket out on this computer.
Costs 20 cents and of course, you know that's your voices and everything anything that you don't use.
So it's an expensive machine to run, but you know, Pesy, she loves gearjus, the big ones.
Well, what else's news Marcia's sister leaves today for Los Angeles and for Melbourne tomorrow she comes through she's got two stops, one in Honolulu and one in Auckland.
And what else has been happening?
Oh I got your birthday card yesterday postmark 27th of April arrived 13th of May, I just can't make this mail out, sometimes I get things real quick and sometimes I don't.
And I also yesterday got a letter from Lozzie I don't know what date that was postmarked because of course Bob put it through the Frank machine at work but she was in hospital and I'd written to her and I'm glad I got the letter to her before she went to hospital was sort of for a birthday I was a bit late for birthday but it was obviously before she went to hospital she went in the May holidays and they removed her womb I think in a cervix or some area around there and.
She said everything else was in fine order and no problems with a liver or a bow or anything, so she was very happy and they said she was making remarkable recovery and was doing real well she seems know pretty happy anyway with the whole thing and I was so pleased just to hear that she was okay.
They're still living in Hamilton of course, don't think there was any other news much she said there's a problem at school she said the way the kids are carryinging on because both the boys in college it's hard to believe she said the way the kids are carrying on with us PAki her Mai a fraction at school she said I believe we'll be back to Mai war in another 10 years the other thing she said was I told her that you know we weren't all locked in our houses scared to go out here in Atlanta not to be concerned and she was glad to hear that she reckoned that the police in.
Most of the police in New Zealand waters that I'll just get have to hear it in Lazzie's words.
She's just got the same old sense of hum, she said she was glad that we were all okay here because we'd certainly had our share of bizarre publicity, it's no wonder so many yanks, something or other shouldn't.
Anyway, oh so manynk yanks shouldn't carry gos, et cetera mind you things ain't all that sweet and god zone and the way the kids carry on with thus marry pack have fraction at school.
We will be back to the tribal wars in another decade or so it is I think I think half the police is detailed to black power and most of the other half sniffing out drugs which only leaves a few to protect the citizens from the normal rapists murderers and thieves well must clothes now isn't that typical of losing so things are pretty much the same everywhere of course there was here, as far as the murder thing goes, another kid is missing this morning which will bring up to 28 and of course there' one body that's still not been found but the one that was found.
Two days ago, well earlier this week I guess it was is a little bit different to the others puzzling because he had been asphyxiated, which is the tree and he was poor, he had a police record and had been to detention centres etc, but he was asphyxiated and then he had been stabbed several me stabbed several times which has not been part of the pattern.
Anyway, well I guess we'll find somebody that says that it's been God's will that these poor children shouldn't suffer any longer or something a bit like the Yorkshire Riverper while the Jes are all alive and doing well again this morning and the kids are still very excited about them when they're three weeks old, we have to win them and take them out so that they can be we have to divide the sexes up and so on and say forth and we'll have to start giving them away at that stage.
Well everything's sort of coming to an end for the end of the year and school finishes on the 5th of June, we've got the sports day is now going to be the  second of June Rachel's going to Sea Ireland and Cumberon Island with the choir the end of the month I hope to go to but they I think may have too many chaperones which is the shame because I really wanted to get over there may be able to go I'm not sure yet oh we've got the performing Macbeth and.
Midsummer Night's dream of being done by the fifth graders right now because they graduate if few plays this year and then they go to Sutton Middle School for three years before they go to Northside High School and so they're doing those and they've done a real good job of it Mat's been on puppet show and I went and saw that the other morning and they've been performing that every morning this week and then of course Rachel's got her to you know Mary Popins and Tom Sawyer we've got two more weeks of soccer.
Two more Saturdays and then they finish soccer and he's going continue to take Judo. he just loves Judo just loves it and he looks cute and his ski and I've got to just got some photos back of him and that and I'm going to get a big one done to sort of match that one of Rachel on her gown a blow up small bar anyway for you to go with that because he really looks cute in it and it's been taken when the dogwoods were out so there's some pictures of dogwoods there the dogwoods were just beautiful this year but the heat came and then funly enough we've had what they call it.
Veryrry winter. And it's I guess it's the opposite to an India in summer. And we've had cooler weather. In fact, it really got quite cold, you know for us the wind graham and then it was just starting to get hot. we hadn't sort of been sunbathing or anything. but then it just got really hot like into the 90s. And then all of a sudden, it dropped back. It's been like 40 at night. we've all been frozen. we've had to have our heating on again. just for a couple of nights, but it's going to heat up again today but there's thunder showers, thunderstorms expected this afternoon.
Time of year again. Well, everything's all green and the leaves are all out and thick and looking pretty good. And I think that's about all the news. I hope you're all well and looking forward to not too severe a winter, I hope.
I'll send you the children's foot sizes because I guess it would be nice to have some mum.