Family ties

Aunt, husband and cousins go to new life in Australia in 1952. In 1976 I went to visit first staying with an inlaw of my cousin in Sydney. After I made a small trip to northern Australia I returned to the inlaws ready to embark on a trip to see the family in deep, rural New South Wales. There in the house were extra house guests, my uncle (aunt's husband's) sister and her husband. So I offered to take them to Griffith some 400 miles west of Sydney. So for the first time in 24 years both my aunt and uncle received close relatives for the first time from the UK who had never met before and were unknown to each other before the trip from Sydney. It was a great morale support for my aunt who was in hospital recovering from a cancer operation and had little idea anyone was coming (my visit was notified, the other was a surprise). Add on My brother moved north from Somerset having lived in southern England for the first 60 years of his life. On sending a Christmas card to my cousin in Australia she wrote back and said he was living in Garstang Lancs. where her father's relatives were born (the uncle above). This week! I walked through the front door carrying a flat vegtable box provided by the supermarket, the first time ever, they were saving on bags and clearing out boxes to save recycling costs. As I walked through the front door at home I thought, perhaps I should keep for Miss A. who had stayed in my guest house last year and wanted such a box for her dog to sleep in. Question in my mind, I wonder whether she will book again this year, should I keep the box? There was just message on my answer machine, Miss A asking to arrange a room for this year. About 1000 guests stay each year and about 60% return within one or two years. Summer bookings are taken from November to the actual summer of the year involved.