** Fred and Mien Blom's Place **PO
Box 4072 Alice Springs |
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We emigrated from Holland to Alice Springs in the centre of Australia in the spring of 1971 and we love it here. Four of our six children, Lilian, Ray, Eugene, Richard and Regine are living here, Simone lives in Perth.
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(click to enlarge)Lilian, Raymond, Eugene, Simone, Richard, Regine We semi-retired from business in 1990 when Lilian took over the management of our picture-framing and leadlighting shop. During 1993-94 Fred and I built a new house on the outskirts of town. I look upon those two years as a ‘builder’s-labourer’, as some of the best years of my life. In September 2001 our garden became part of Australia’s Open Garden Scheme and again in October 2002.
Since Fred retired in 1995 we are busier than ever.Fred has a 'Fabulous Retirement Hobby'. He builds and demonstrates the workings of (Dutch) street-organs. This gives us both so much pleasure that the three organs he made so far are no longer for sale. He is now working on his fourth organ, bigger and better still.We welcome anyone who is interested in the organs, our garden or my writing to visit us, here in Alice Springs. Just call us on (08) 89550064.
By showing what we have done we hope to inspire others.
Christmas 2002 was a very special occasion as all of us, including our eleven grandchildren aged five to twenty-one were together, for the first time since 1993, here in Alice Springs.
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