10th
December I’ve just returned
from a “cruise” to Uncle Bob, Aunt Edith and Vic’s where I had a pile of bake
apples after just mentioning that I loved them! Which is true. They’re
scrumptious! Uncle Bob called them “The Labrador Fruit”. I showed them my
pictures and left some leaflets with them.
We talked about everything and I phoned up Pete from there and he
came along at about 9.00 p.m. It came out
that salmon had been sold for only three cents a pound! The merchants were the
“baddies”. Everybody agreed. Uncle Bob’s family was one of two families who
first colonized Rexon’s Cove. Uncle Bob (Russell) and Aunt Edith are two very
nice old people, about sixty years of age I should think. Apparently, Sheila
Hinchcliffe (ex- V.S.O.), spent a good bit of time with them when Nellie Stone
used to lodge there. Nellie taught at the School at the same time that Sheila
was out here. Nellie is now married to Bill Larkum and she has gone, or, very
shortly is going to St. Anthony’s Hospital for maternal reasons. Ha!
I also went down to the rink because some of my kids were playing.
They went down after I had kept some of them in for not knowing their tables
well enough. I have just finished a week of testing them.
I’ve just returned from a “cruise” to Mrs. Jim Sampson’s where I
stayed all evening. Pete was down at the rink. He said he was going to watch
the hockey which was very rough apparently. I called in on Stephen and Sandra
Cook at about 10.00
p.m. on my way back just when they were
feeding their quiz team with hot dogs – an opportune moment! I had a nice snack
there and then came down to bed. It then started snowing at about 10.45 p.m. I wonder how thick (“tick”) it will be in this morning. I battened
myself down and walked home with my photographs and guide book of Exmouth. The
people here seem to really like me coming into their homes and showing them my
photographs and pictures. I call it “some good fun” too. It’s really very nice to
just go into somebody’s house (whom you are already acquainted with beforehand
of course) and spend an hour or two just talking and picking up lots of news
about things.
Mrs. Sampson’s son, Aubrie, was recently suspended from School for
five days and he didn’t return to see Claude. Mrs. Sampson is victimizing
Claude who, from what I know of him, is doing a good, worthwhile job.
We’ve just got a garbage can to put outside the School. Maybe it will
be used. It’s ingrained into the people here to drop their litter anywhere.
Maybe the garbage can will have some effect? Only time will tell.
There was no
mail plane today and I’ve heard that there won’t be one tomorrow either!!! The
mail service is “something shocking”. Pete said that he had heard on the radio
that a hovercraft was going to operate along the coast starting in March next
year. That probably means March 1971 knowing the speed at which things get down
around here!
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