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3 January 1961 New Year's Eve with elderly chickens and a disobedient white pony

3 January 1961 My dear Len and Margaret Here we are in the New Year and this is my first letter to you, first of all we all want to wish you a very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 1961. We hope you will all keep in good health.  What must I start by saying? I will start to say this, we have an addition to our home at Yaralla. It happened like this. As you know we were all at Kay’s on New Years day for lunch and supper. During the afternoon they gave us each a gift. Arthur brought Roselle’s gift near her in a big cardboard box with the top open. She looked in and thought she saw something moving. Anyway she brought out of this box a very nice cage with a lovely Budgie in it. She didn’t know what to say, naturally she was very pleased with this gift, so now we have this bird in the dining room on the radiogram. We call him “Joey”. He’s only a few weeks old. He’s full of life too. This means a toy for Roselle. It thundered a little during the night, Roselle wondered if J...