We were officially closed for the Christmas-New year week, but some of us have been at the office for much of the last 3 days, catching up. Postage on any single order is usually a flat $7.95 regardless of the size of the order – effectively free freight for all but the first item. This is given on the online shopping cart, which you can always check this, even if you send payment by mail. In fact freight is free until 15 January – as has been advised in our recent email newsletters.

Gould – we should put the background to the name on on our web site. It derives from a Joseph Gould who came to South Australia in 1839. He had 3 daughters (one is my wife’s great grandmother), but no sons that I know of to carry on the Gould name. Except that the Gould name has been carried on as a middle name in some descendants to the present day – partly the reason we adopted the name. I do not however know much about Joseph Gould, but his death notice says he was “late of Somersetshire, England”. He died 25 February 1870 in South Australia aged 65.

Alan Phillips