WILL YOU BE COMING HOME THIS CHRISTMAS?

1. WillyoubecominghomethisChristmas before this lonely year is done?
Will you be born a child among us
to make our family one?

2. Will you be driving through the desert across the wastes where dingoes roam? Will you return, our drover brother,
to heal our broken home?
Will you be coming home a swagman, your billy slung across your back,
and set our weary feet in rhythm along the homeward track?

3. WillyoubecominghomewithMary, brown girl with child upon her knee? Will you be home to reunite us beneath a Christmas tree?
Will you be coming from the outback, a traveller sent from God above,
to stir the goodness deep among us with silent human love?

4. WillyoubecominghomethisChristmas before this lonely year is done?
Will you be coming from the outback
to make our family one?

30.9.24
 

Back from a Break 

During September, Dorothy and I travelled
to Norway and the UK.

After long flights
- Adelaide to Melbourne,
Melb to Dubai (14 hrs),
Dubai to Oslo (7 hrs) -
we did Norway in a nutshell
from Oslo to Bergen, then
the Hurtigruten Cruise 
up the west coast of Norway
and back again.
Then an 8 day Trafalgar tour
and 4 days in London,
before taking the direct flight
(16 3/4 hrs)
from Heathrow to Perth.
We're a bit tired (!) but we'll still be a part
of the LWA convention and the 
General Convention .

See some of you there.