Visitors

We've had William and Pam Holley visiting over the weekend. William's family was great mates with the Murray family and William and Cathie spent a lot of time together while they were growing up. William and Pam's kids, Seamus and Liam, were the same ages as Amanda and Adam and the young Roffs and Holleys spent many happy years growing up together. Cathie's uncle, John, eventually married William's sister, Barbara, further uniting the families. William, despite not being all that bright, is a doctor. He failed the last year of the leaving certificate prior to the change to six years of high school and was allowed to repeat the leaving while all his classmates had to do year 11. This meant that for one year, the only graduates from high school were the small handful in William's situation and they were able to walk into any uni programme they liked. Medicine might have been in the blood, though, as his father was the GP in West Wallsend for about 40 years, his brother, James, was a doctor and two of his sisters were nurses. Marianne worked with James at the Mater hospital in Newcastle for a while. William has a practice in Dungog and they live on a beautiful farm just out of town. We get to visit every time we're returning from Lismore.
We all went to see "Keating - the musical" yesterday and it really is very good. The rest of the audience was the same age as us so perhaps it wouldn't make as much sense to younger generations. See it if you get the chance.