Arrival

We arrived in Australia, and moved to a little Town at the foothills of the Grampians, it was incredibly primitive, not that we noticed so much as children, but there was no running water, no electricity, and the "house" was no more than a shack, but Mum who had been used to all the above including an indoor toilet, thrived, she was absolutely immersed in the amazing Australian bush life, totally fascinated with the wildlife, maybe it was her attatchment to the lifestyle of the bush people of the time that has always endeared the outback country to me. One thing I remember, she had to wash (in a copper) all our clothes in dam water, and of course it all came out yellow, so the farmers told her to put ash in the water and it worked, not as white as one would like, but better.