What an interesting day. Started at the crack of dawn (even before the kookaburras began) ,dragging my weary body out into the crisp chilly morning, and loading up the car with treated pine stands and tough trays for delivery to the Gold Coast. Man,they are heavy! My car was groaning up the hills and I …
Memories, Morning Tea and Movies
For some reason I always wake around the time I was born on my birthday. (3.15am). It is hard to get back to sleep as I think about the way my life has gone, a Camino in itself of luck, love, sadness and a lot of grieving, but best of all, friendships and family that …
A Well Earned Rest
Many of you will know that I am now working in the Blue Mountains, managing a boutique hotel. I arrived amid a stunning autumn with the tree lined streets ablaze with red,orange and yellow (a sight not seen in Queensland and I’ve missed it). I have shuffled through the fallen leaves, made copious amounts of …
Winter
I’m in heaven! I love winter! I like living in Queensland but I miss the seasonal changes. Last night, a freezing cold wind blew up and temperatures plummeted at dusk. I turned the heater on, went to bed with socks on my feet and curled up under a doona (duvet), listening to the howling wind, …
Coming Home to the Blue Mountains
I’ve just come home from a wonderful movie night at Glenella . We had a special screening of I’ll Push You- a camino movie of course. Swept up into welcome back hugs on arrival I immediately bathed in the atmosphere and friendliness of this community. Chairs were strategically placed around the room and the big …
A new adventure I wake this morning with sun streaming into my room and magpies warbling in the gum trees surrounding my cabin. Utter bliss! I’m off on a new adventure....going back to the Blue Mountains to work. I’m so looking forward to foggy mornings, shuffling among autumn leaves, country community hospitality, and feeling cold …
Well That Didn’t Go as Planned….
I haven’t got my Coasting Back Home blog page going yet so I’ll post here for now. I took off a few days ago with my bus full of brand new equipment, heaps of excitement and anticipation. Hurtling down the highway towards my destination for the next few days, I accompanied Leonard Cohen, Michael Franti, …
A Random Trip Down Memory Lane
I’m sitting in a memory! Perched on a vinyl chair at a table topped with green and white mottled laminex , I gaze upon the many photos from the area in the 1950’s. The scent of freshly baked scones, muffins and coffee fill my lungs. I’m almost floating back in time to memories of sitting …
A Weekend in Sydney
This will seem a little weird but my kids and I have this 'thing' where we notice people who look like animals. This Jetstar flight to Sydney is full of them! The lady by the aisle and I are laughing because meerkat beside me is going to be so embarrassed when he wakes to find …
WTF?
Whilst reading an article posted on Facebook recently, I was struck by the realisation that not only does Australia have its own version of English, but we also share a universal language that abbreviates things more than we Australians do (is that possible?) We now read that we have FOMO and there is TMI....I mean, …
Margaret Caffyn 