A welcome pre- Christmas hello from Aussie friends residing in cold and wet Ireland reveals that they have become very theatrical. Members of the Enniscothy Historical Re-enactment Society , they have recently been prancing about in costumes to mark the 800th anniversary of the Vikings sailing in and presumably rampaging about the neighbourhood . They also took part in a ceremony in a German soldiers cemetery which was attended by the German ambassador . All this dressing up has resulted in a large wardrobe .
The couple , who once bought and restored a nunnery building in Ireland , went off to Portugal for a while, then came back to the land of the Leprechauns . They are off to Penang in the New Year to thaw out .
Family research in Ireland has turned up some orphans in a workhouse who were shipped out to Melbourne , where they toiled and married .
