Carl and I checked with US Social Security to see if I can get benefits at age 62. They will send a letter here in four weeks. The key question is whether I worked for ten years in USA. I did work but my record was patchy. Watch this space. For the "Southern Cross and Boomerang" I feel like Don Quijote and you my readers will be my cyber Sancho Panzas. Those who stick with me - even laugh at me. Those who help me in this quest. Tilting at the widmills of inertia and indifference, while the future calls out [View Full Entry]

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Well, we're in Cambridge, Mass., on family visiting holidays. We've covered Boston for nine days. We've hit the hot spots - especially the Mapparium. We'eve been downtown, north end, the big dig, Harvard Square, and the ever fabulous Druid in Inman Square, home of the best waitress this side of Australia. Yesterday was Marblehead, beautiful as ever. Today it's the Sam Adams Brewery. The tale of the southern cross and boomerang campaign on the Australian East Coast begins in a week. Stay tuned. [View Full Entry]

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