Aunty Betty Seage

Brother and sister, Neil Roff and Betty Seage, share a birthday today. We got a card recently from Aunty Betty which I'll reproduce below as it would take her a long time to hand-write the news contained to all members of the family. Happy birthday, Aunty Betty.
"My writing is going from bad to worse - perhaps I'd do better with the pen in my mouth - I do so admire the foot-and-mouth painters. We've lost a couple of relations lately whom you've met in years gone by if I remember rightly. Noel and Pam Newton were your Godparents (Grant's Godparents), was it not so? Pam stopped in the other afternoon being in the vicinity and feeling pretty low having lost her eldest son Noel to the "big C" in recent weeks. Martin offered to drive us down to (can't read this town) near Bundanoon but I had the wrong Monday and Martin couldn't go on the right one being in China where Neil is most of the time these days with petrol problems. I can't go anywhere Monday, Wednesday and Friday with my dialysis and Tony and Mahle were on a cruise to New Zealand. I expected him to be hanging over the rails all the way and all the way back but he was only ill for a short time and enjoyed the rest of the holiday so much that he's taking Matt in May if a home can be found for Buddy, a dear little fox terrier who expects to be taken for a walk 24/7.
Our second casualty was Marie's (Ken's sister who lives in Brussles) husband, Andre, who was taken to hospital much against his will and died the next day. Marie could only attend the church service as she had to go into hospital herself to have cement injected into her lower vertibraes. Marie is still in hospital but Ken rings her every few days and she's going well. She'll be allowed home in the near future with a carer, driver, meals-on-wheels and the rest of it. Martin and family are off to the UK on thursday to visit Olga and Claude (Jenny's parents). We are off to Port Douglas on Sunday - our dialysis machines are brought up to the hospital there. Ken can never get away being my carer and will shoot me if I wake up dead before Sunday morning. Lots of love to all the family."
Aunty Betty loves getting family news so, presuming she and Uncle Ken get back alive from the dialysis tour, send her a card or letter telling her what's going on (including photos) to Lourdes Retirement Village, Unit 23, 95 Stanhope Road, Killara 2071.