Thank you for your sweet mail about your life, Kit. You really do have a most beautiful face. Let me tell you a little about where I live. Canberra is the capital city of Australia with a population of 380,000. It is a beautiful city, set in a series of plains and wide valleys surrounded by low hills. There are many open spaces and parks. Several rivers and creeks flow through it into the Murrumbidgee River which borders some mountain ranges to the west, some of which are snow covered in winter. The Murrumbidgee empties into the Murray River several hundred kilometres due west. Canberra was established in 1913 and is a planned city. Canberra comprises five satellite towns, each with its own town centre. We live in the southern most, Tuggeranong and our house is fairly near the western side, about a 15 minute walk from the top of Urambi Hill which then drops down through some old grazing land to the Murrumbidgee River about 40 minutes’ walk away. Beyond there is more grazing land and it becomes increasingly mountainous and covered in native forest. Canberra is located on the southern tablelands about 100 kilometres from the coast (as the crow flies) and 300 kilometres south west of Sydney. So we are about 600 metres above sea level. This means we get four seasons, and it can reach nearly 40 C in summer, dropping down to 18-20 C overnight and down to minus 7 C overnight in winter but generally reaching about 9-11 C during the day. It is dry with an annual rainfall of 25 inches; well that used to be the case as it appears to becoming a lot drier here with climate change. I find it a very pleasant climate and it is really nice to live here. I do look forward to hearing from you soon HHHHHHHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGG KKKKKKKKKKKKIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSSSSS Steve XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX