By the way, Chris Kempster turned up at Mum's funeral last week and sang his version of "Clancy and Dooley and Don McLeod', one of mum's (Dorothy's) best known poems of the 1940s about a famous aboriginal stockman's strike in Northern Australia.

He was pretty choked up and it was kind of hard to work out the tune, but it was quite close to his "Sailor Home from the Sea" in concept and execution.

I hadnt met him before and he's a nice guy. He told me how his mother was shocked by the permissiveness of my mother when they went on a tour to Vienna and Moscow in 1952. Which is kind of odd as my father went with her. But I guess even looking ok was suspect in 1952.