December 15, 1981.

Frank and Jenny
8/12 Onslow Avenue
Elizabeth Bay
NSW 2011

MERRY
AND A
HAPPY THINGY

Dear Jo, Clare and a cast a thousands,

thought wed better buzz off this communication for the festered season. Behold the illustration on the front, recalling the myth of the three wize Australians. An artists impression had to be used because the actual TWAs have not been built yet. You will, of course, remember the touching story of the trio (Grouch , Omo and Joylene) who saw a shining tube of Fosters (some authorities allege it was Swan lager) bathing the sky with bubbles. They followed it and it brought them to a land of jumbucks, opera houses and goolagongs where foreheads were outlawed and pomme de terre meant "scum of the earth". But enough of this gay tittle--tattle. This is the season of Good Will, or Bonser Bruce as he's known out where. We will be trying to stay here longer than expected (as you probably know by now) and will come back some time or other. Details will be contained in other Yule communications which we hope will come your way-- actually they shouldn't come your way they should come G Skeggs, K Eley, C Hills way unless the GPO is even more of an elevated rooster than it was when I was unemployed there. Somewhere in the above you will have realised that there is not a lot of news. Yarns concerning foreign parts seem much more entertaining when wrapped around several pints and in an ongoing situation or interface re the yarnor and the yarnee. Preposterous as it may seem we miss the old crowd very much indeed and anticipate more of same as we celebrate the triumph of the infertile over the fertile. Drop us a line if you can, and if you can't send us a letter. It wont be long before I'm borrowing money from you again. Love Frank & Jenn