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The Darwin Letters – The Final Letter, No. 14

Trenna floating in a pond with a waterfall in the background.
Trenna cooling off at Florence Falls in Litchfield National Park. December 1994.

If you’ve missed it, this series starts here.

Tuesday 5 November 1996

20/288 Casuarina Drive
Nightcliff 0810

G’day Mum and Dad

Nov 96 Greg has accepted a job offer at Murdoch University, and has agreed to commence working there on Monday 2nd December 1996 – less than four weeks from today – YIPPEE!! 

So we’re packing our bags, and aim to fly out on Saturday 30th November 1996 – 2 years, 2 weeks, and 2 days after the … Read the rest ... “The Darwin Letters – The Final Letter, No. 14”

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1990s Darwin Writing

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

If you’ve missed it, this series starts here.

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”