Welcome to Quarantino Bay

The one in which Heather and Neil give peace a chance… Two’s company, three’s a cluster Our Etihad Airways 787 touched down smoothly on the rain-lashed tarmac of Kingsford Smith airport, having flown like an arrow at 250 metres per second through the Arabian night. We arrived with the disorientation familiar to any passenger that…

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Leaving Cotton Lane – Part One

The one in which Heather packs the fireplace… ‘Home is where the hearth is‘ We were tremendously excited when it became clear that Australia was going to be the next chapter in our lives together; but if we could have picked up our house, and brought it lock, stock and barrel with us to Brisbane,…

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Getting here

The one in which Neil loses his phone at 38,000 feet… ‘Do you come from a land down-under?’ What with a world-wide pandemic and the wide-spread paranoia surrounding any form of overseas travel, the spring of 2021 could not have been a worse time to plan a permanent move from up-top to down-under; but in…

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