This is my first post since April; maybe I'll try to be a little more consistent in the future. My resolution is not helped by the fact that, this weekend, I gave up our internet connection. We're just a few kilometres from Tasmania's second city but internet access here is appalling. The Telstra lines are old and there are no plans to replace them. There are no 'ports' left for new connections and local businesses and people who work from home have nowhere to turn. Our connection was unreliable and I got fed up with it dropping out when I was in the middle of something important.
It was costing up to $100 a month and that was not money well-spent. In future, we'll use our mobile phone hotspots and hope we get better service.
We have a wallaby grazing in our front garden at the moment. It has been there for a few days, quietly grazing and occasionally lying down for a break. It's clearly not well and we wonder whether it is close to dying. We often see wallabies and other animals in the evenings but this one is around in daylight as well. In the time we've been here, I've had to move two bodies from the back door and we wonder whether our house is like the elephant's graveyard where old marsupials go to die.
The Craft Fair is getting closer and we have a quick trip to Melbourne coming up. In mid-November, we fly to Perth to join a cruise. The ship is the Explorer of the Seas and it's a 16-night cruise between Fremantle and Sydney, calling in to Adelaide, Melbourne and various ports in New Zealand. From Sydney, we fly to Manila for a month. We had decided that we would limit our overseas holidays to our winter months but, like all our carefully-worked-out plans, this one soon came off the rails. I suppose we just have to enjoy the trips as they occur without trying to be too organised.
