We celebrated the New Year in fine style back in Wick. Mam and Da say things at home are very quiet with us both gone. They were so happy to have us at home for two whole days. I felt very proud I was able to turn most of my salary over to my parents. Henry had much less, being a beginning apprentice, but our parents said they were grateful, and it will help them hire a neighbour’s boy to help Da with the animals. Mam is looking tired, and this will ease her load.
Imagine, it is a new century, but nothing really feels very different. The same old battles in South Africa are carrying on, there are still storms and earthquakes killing people who have done nothing to deserve it. Everyone is talking about a new wonder medicine that is just now appearing in the chemist shops. It is called aspirin, and they are saying it will cure just about anything.
Things are starting to get very busy at Abbott House, for in just a few weeks we will have a full house. I pity the poor laundry maids; they must mend, wash and iron linen for goodness knows how many beds!
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