Isn’t it amazing what life can pack into one small year? Two beautiful weddings: my niece Anna & her Alex and my friend’s daughter and long term boyfriend; the sad loss of Roddy’s mum; Roddy’s daughter Alex reinventing herself by completing a course in aged care and getting a job despite her own struggles; Paul […]
Wine, Wedding, Warfare and Winching
Oops, three months ago I wrote the last blog. I had just come back from driving the motorhome back from Adelaide to Perth all on my tod. Since then we initially spent around 6 weeks in Perth doing our best to support Roddy’s daughter. I’m glad to report that she seems to be so much […]
Scotland – From the Beast from the East to the Heatwave of 2018
Whit! Another Blog from her? Yes, sorry for the blog surge but now that I feel free to blog again, I will! You might remember that Roddy and I spent a month in Scotland for Christmas and up until his mum’s birthday at the end of January. Then we returned to Perth and had intended […]
Adelaide to Perth, Days 7-10
Solo across the NullarborThe Final furlong: Caiguna to Norseman Norseman to Southern Cross Southern Cross to Northam to stay at Nicki and Roy’s place Northam to Perth, a skip and a hop One thing I have learned about myself over this last week is that I need time to myself. I enjoy being on my […]
Adelaide to Perth, Days 5 and 6
Day 5 started leisurely again: breakfast and a video call with Roddy who gave me the news that Alex would probably be discharged from hospital today, which was great to hear! While I was getting ready, two women took a trip on the plane that was parked next to my van. When they came back […]
Adelaide to Perth, Days 3 and 4
Day 3 After my now habitual Bircher Müsli, I set off at 8.15, delaying coffee as my carrot for later. On the outskirts of town I took the left turn at the fork as it was sign posted for Perth and Western Australia! My heart sang in the same way as it does when I […]
Adelaide to Perth, Days 1 and 2
Soon I will write my blog about our 6 months in Scotland but events have overtaken plans, so I will deal with the Now first. On Saturday Roddy drove me to Perth airport for me to start my solo adventure to retrieve the motorhome from Adelaide. Roddy’s daughter has been unwell for some time so […]
Wee Mum
So, we arrived back in Perth on 28th January to unreal heat. From winter Scotland to summer Australia, a 30 degrees difference in temperature. For two weeks our time was filled with medical appointments: Roddy had a scheduled PET scan, which was clear – yipeee!! I had a cardio echogram, which was pretty normal. Then […]
Scotland at Christmas 2017
Before we left for our Christmas visit to Scotland, my youngest daughter Jane took me aside and explained to me that I had let myself go. She was ‘pure affronted’ at the state of me when camping as evidenced on Facebook. The photos! She reminded me of the floaty skirts I used to wear (sometimes) […]
South Australia and Adelaide Pre-Christmas 2017
After the Nullabor, our plans were to travel down the Eyre Peninsula on the west side and up on the east. Roddy was keen to see Woomera, north of Port Augusta, on the way to Alice Springs, right up the guts of the country and from there to backtrack and head towards Adelaide by the […]
The Drauz-Macduff Australian Roadtrip Blog 