Kolo Ridge
B.S.I.P.
10 June 1974
Dear Mum &
Dad,
Our garden boy
didn't turn up today, his sister told us that he fell off his bike over the
weekend. This bike is his pride & joy & he bought it with his first lot
of wages from us. I hope he is not too badly injured. He lives in a village
quite a way from here & actually in jungle & off what you might call
the beaten track. We got the car to the top of the ridge overlooking Jimmy’s
village in the valley one weekend on a drive but wished we hadn't because it
was nearly impossible to turn the car around & I nearly got it bogged.
Jimmy's Village
We
asked him to build a leaf house in the back yard over Darren’s sandpit to keep
it cool & shady. He has finished the main structure & now I have to
organise getting some leaf for the roof. There is a village about 4 miles out
of town that sells it already to put on the roof frame.
He does a good job
in the garden & at the moment his major project is levelling our back yard.
The ground is full of coral & it is very difficult to keep any imported
topsoil.
We have discovered
a beautiful beach only 14 miles out of town & we have had at least 3
picnics there. Sundays are our picnic days. This beach is really something out
of the box & before we leave I must take some pictures for you with a
decent camera. Apart from a few bits & pieces of aircraft it is perfect. We
got out there by 9 am last Sunday & we thought what it would be like at
that moment in Melbourne
It has just
started to really pour & water is coming in our front door. Our house
hasn’t got any guttering & the water just streams off the roof &
creates furrows in the ground.
Shane is quite
miserable at the moment. He has cut one tooth on the bottom gum & one on
the top which apparently is called cross cutting & the most painful way to
do it. In addition he has a bad cold.
Something which
Darren has been doing for quite a few months but which I haven’t mentioned is
quite basic but I find amazing. He takes himself to the toilet & the
strangest thing, first thing in the morning is to hear his little feet hit the
deck & without a murmur (I'm sure he keeps his eyes nearly shut so he wont
wake up too much) he stomps into the toilet, sound effects, presses the button
& stomps back to bed. It’s like we have guests in the house.
I cant really
think of anything else at the moment so I will finish up. Hope you are both
feeling well.
Love from all of
us,
Greg
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