As promised - From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country - Book 4

On our return from the USA we settled in Perth Western Australia (WA for short), where we lived till 1988.Our time in WA led us through the good and the bad, through achievements and destruction, through happiness and shear pain and dissolutions.

The clinic we built from nothing has done extremely well and the work was interesting and fulfilling. Gerry has broadened the range of treatment, and did what will be called in laymen terms - ‘miracles’; getting some spastics children back to normal, and sterile women to conceive.

At the beginning we lived at the back of the clinic and then moved to a home of our own where the children could have a proper home.We had the mandatory string of animals, including an Alsatian bitch that had eleven beautiful pups in her first and only litter; AND, we nearly had some field mice our Gill and friend decided to breed!

To get recharged, we went from time to time overseas, visiting countries as far apart as Brazil & Argentina are from Europe, South Africa from China and so on, meeting and learning the ways people live in those countries.

At the end of 1972 we went for a year to Israel, where

the 1973 Yom Kippur war surprised while visiting Germany, leaving the children with different friends in Israel.

A short while after our return from Israel, all hell came lose and we experienced several calamities, one of which was a car accident that rendered Gerry unfit for work, and left us nearly destitute.

However, during that time we also had some very rewarding and interesting occurrences: We fostered a teenager for a while & built an 18.3 feet steel ketch.We became detectives & lawyers of sorts during the car accident compensation trial that took 3 sitting and ended a year & a half later & were blackmailed as well. We lived on board our yacht for 3 years, and during the America’s cap that was in Fremantle WA.

The book ends with us leaving WA in 1988 to live in the Eastern Australia where we are living since.

Renate

Artist, poet & the Author of

‘From the Promised Land to the Lucky Country’