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There has been a change to the circumstances chez Von Trapps which will bring about major logistical upheaval. We are off to Australia in the near future, near meaning anything from a few weeks to a couple of months. It’s finally time to make one more big move to a land where we will all speak in the same tongue; to remove all these uncertainties with questions and answers in day to day life.
Life in the Confederation Helvetica has been of good quality, no doubting that but as they say in other German speaking countries – it’s all a bit too ‘special’. The dialogue is just a bit too far off being understandable to be something to tackle long term. It’s almost a language in its own right.
Ted and Scarlett were discussing over breakfast this morning our next place to live and it took me a few moments to register what they were on about. Scarlett was talking in her best words about diving with whales and big fish, she was keen to state that she wanted nothing to do with actually getting in the water or being anywhere near these whales, no, it was quite clear that Daddy was going to have to do this. Ted quantified this with a clear comparison to the big whale in the film “Finding Nemo”.
“Yes, that’s right” said Scarlett, “We’re going to live where ‘Memo’ lives”.
“In Sydney” said Ted.
All of a sudden it was as clear as a bell. The pair of them had worked out, without much help from me, that the place we are going to is the same as that in the film,
“so we must be looking for Nemo then Scarlett?” I asked.
“That’s right, Daddy and you’re going to go diving with the big whale…”
So that’s settled then.
