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1990s Darwin Gardening Writing

The Darwin Letters No.8

Barb and Nat sitting happily in the spare room
"Not so spare room". Barb and Nat set up in the second bedroom in our apartment. We bought the tropical sofa bed specifically for guests - we had plenty. 19 July 1995.

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A note before Tren starts: There is about a 4 and a half month break between the following letter and the previous one. I suspect that there wasn’t one written in that time. That period includes a lot of “The Dry” when we were way more active, but during this period my parents visited and Trenna’s sister Barb visited. Our friends Lorraine and Neil also arrived to live in Darwin, Lorraine … Read the rest ... “The Darwin Letters No.8”

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1990s Darwin Writing

The Darwin Letters No. 4

Lightning at night
Lightning over the sea and Christmas lights on the balcony of our apartment. No, that's NOT a multiple exposure, all that lightning is simultaneous. 30 December 1994.

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Monday 19 December 1994

20/288 Casuarina Drive
Nightcliff 0810

Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!


Top End Greetings to you Mum and Dad, and also to anyone else who reads this letter.

Not another letter, we hear you cry! Don’t worry though, we’re sure the novelty will wear off very soon, and you’ll be blessed with a simple phone call.

But in the mean time, here we go again…
How are you … Read the rest ... “The Darwin Letters No. 4”

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The Darwin Letters No. 3

Boxes of books waiting to be unpacked into Billy Bookcases
We had quite a few boxes of books taken up to Darwin. This is during the unpacking. We put them into our Billy bookcases. The bookcases survived but the humidity gave the long shelves quite a bow (IKEA redesigned them in later years). The VCR sitting on the state of the art TV proved to be invaluable for entertainment in Darwin. 28 November 1994.

The Actual Letters…

or at least the first of them

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Welcome to the third instalment in this series.

I’ve changed my mind several times, wrestling with how best to present this series of stories from when Trenna and I lived in tropical Darwin.

I’ve now decided I will do it by publishing, in the order they were written and sent, the letters Trenna wrote to my Mum and Dad.

We later … Read the rest ... “The Darwin Letters No. 3”