Playing with Keys. Julia Osborne

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СКАЧАТЬ Easter next week, hooray! We’re having an Easter egg hunt in our garden. On Sunday we’re going to the Royal Easter Show and I wish you could come too.

      Do you think your parents would let me stay with you in the May holidays? I would come on the train.

      Love from Sandra xxxxx

      15 Bentley St.,

      Curradeen.

      Saturday, 25th March, 1961.

      Dear Sandy,

      You can come and stay, thats real good and Pa can’t ask me to work in the shop if your here.

      Guess what, Nick came in the shop today with Mrs Morgan and I got to serve them. She bought Easter eggs. He is a bit bent and has two walking sticks. I thought you would like to know. We go to Mass lots over Easter. The best bit is Nonna makes special bocconotti bikkies, made of pastry filled with armands and cherry jam and with icing on.

      I wish I had an auntie like yours. When my relatives visit us they all talk so fast and shout at me Emeeeeelia! Ora parla italiano! I think my auntie and uncle dont like me because I don’t understand them. I was born in Australia and at home I talk how my family talks.

      Nonna knits all day with a black scarf on her head and a skirt down to her ankles. She doesn’t know English but it doesn’t matter. I like it when she sits in the shop with me. This week my brothers, Nonna and me helped Mamma make tomato sauce with hundreds of real ripe tomatoes, we take the skins off with hot water and after its all boiled up with Pa’s onions and garlic and herbs we squash it into jars. I like that part best. Mamma is going to put some in the shop to sell.

      I’m so excited your coming to visit, we all miss you, Mamma, Pa, and my 2 silly brothers.

      Love from Emmy xxx

      23 Tyrell St.,

      Randwick.

      3rd. April, 1961.

      Dear Emmy,

      I booked my train ticket and I’m counting down till I leave. We’ll have 5 whole days to do what we like. Can we borrow another bike and ride to the cemetery like we used to and I can visit Miss Brooks too? I’m glad I won’t be here because the kitchen is going to be painted and Mum has to put everything away. Prue wants to help, she’s such a goody- goody when she wants to be.

      I am so happy that you saw Nick. I want to know more. What does he really look like, you said he needs sticks to walk.

      Did he say anything? What did Mrs Morgan say or did she just buy Easter eggs? Tell me everything, pleeeeeeeeeeeeease.

      The Show was good fun and we got some sample bags. I got very sun burnt and we sucked lots of ice blocks to keep cool. The grand parade was enormous, I liked the horses best. In the cat pavillion some of the cats are so beautiful it’s lucky Ginger doesn’t know he’s only a plain “ domestic short-haired tabby.” Prue spent all her pocket money on rides and she ate so much fairy floss she vomited last night.

      Only one month to go!

      Lots of Love from Sandra xxxxxxO

      15 Bentley St.,

      Curradeen.

      15th April, 61.

      Dear Sandy,

      I posted your birthday present this week plus Nonna knitted you a surprise!

      My grandpa died on Wednesday. We are all very sad. I went to school but Pa came to get me. The funeral was yesterday and we put roses and white lilies on his grave.

      We will be at the station to meet your train. Nonna said you will help us to smile again. I will write more next time.

      Love from Emmy xxx

      23 Tyrell St, Randwick.

      20th April, 61.

      Dearest Emmy,

      I know you must be very sad your grandpa died. I hope you liked the card Mum sent. I wanted to write my own letter and tell you that I think of you every day, and wish I still lived at Curradeen but I’ll soon be there.

      Thank you for the box of lace hankies with your pretty card. I got it today on my birthday! Please tell your Nonna thank you for the scarf, it’s so long it must have taken ages to knit. We ate some of your biscotti last night and I cried in bed again. Carol is O.K. I suppose, she still sits with me but I don’t know if it’s because she likes me or because she was told to.

      Big disaster! Mum saw Mr. L’estrange in the butcher shop yesterday and saw his earring and she says it’s wrong for a man to wear earrings and she wants me to change to another tutor. She can’t do that when I am starting to do well and I even play Mozart better. I really want him to be my teacher now.

      Aunt Meredith has invited us for dinner again so I better get ready. Try not to be too sad.

      Love and kisses from your friend Sandra XXXX

      With Sympathy

      Dear Mrs. Ferrari,

      We are very sorry to hear about the loss of your father. Our thoughts are with you and your family and we extend our deepest sympathy to you all.

      Yours sincerely,

      Angela Abbott and family.

      23 Tyrell St.,

      Randwick, N.S.W.

      20th April, 1961.

      Dear Miss Brooks,

      I’m writing to let you know that I will be staying with my friend Emilia Ferrari in the May holidays and I would like to come and visit you.

      You will be pleased to know that I am studying Handel Suite No.14 in G, and Nocturne in B flat by John Field for the exam. I also have to learn Mozart Sonata in C major K279 for the exam later this year.

      I wish you were still my teacher, my new tutor is a man but I liked you much better. I hope I can see you when I visit Curradeen.

      Yours sincerely,

      Sandra Abbott.

      15 Bentley St.,

      Curradeen, N.S.W.

      28th April, 1961.

      Dear Sandy,

      Your mum’s card is very nice. Its sad my grandpa isn’t around any more. Nonna teached me to knit and I am making a scarf. It’s a bit crooked but I like that I made it. It’s better than reading comics.

      Pa has dug the hugest vegetable garden and drives the truck around to houses where people can’t go out to shop, mostly old people. He made a sign for our front fence “Ferrari’s Farm”. I know its not a proper big farm but the sign is nice.

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