Well, we have been sitting on site 9 at the Windsor Gardens Caravan Park for over seven months now, the longest period we have spent in one place for almost nine years. Life has been something of a constant....Liz working and visiting her ailing mother on an almost daily basis, with your trusty scribe keeping the home fires burning.
Involvement in a number of ad hoc enquiries and investigations, and continuing work on my Surf Club's by-laws, have kept me from going completely round the bend, and with a bit of luck we may finally get out of Tasmania in blogland within a few weeks, but none of this has been a satisfactory substitute for the pleasure of our gypsy wanderings (and I'm not getting any younger!)
I have to comment that the only real upside has been the opportunity to spend more time with many friends and relatives.
Some decisions have now been taken.
We are on the move, initially only from one site to another within the park (another couple have had a booking for the site we are currently occupying for ages). They arrive on 9 December, but we have to move this weekend. The Test Cricket Match begins here in Adelaide on 6 December and needless to say the Mobile Marshies will be eager starters, so we need to be firmly relocated before then.
As you may imagine, this length of stay during a cold winter (and the need to be able to don a little more finery than we normally carry in the van) has meant that we have raided our storage shed for an array of winter clothes and a host of other bits and pieces to make life more comfortable. That all has to now go back, the full annex must come down, and all the trappings of an unusually stable lifestyle which are gracing our outdoor living area have to be packed away again. We have a busy three days ahead of us.
On 20 December we shall be moving down to the West Beach Caravan Park for the Xmas week, and, on 27 December, the Marshies will again be mobile, off to Junee to spend New Year with a group of our Sydney based friends of long standing.
At this stage we'll be returning to Adelaide for the foreseeable future, but not to Windsor Gardens. We have booked a site at the delightful McLaren Vale park for three weeks from 9 January 2019.
This will see out the school holidays, after which we plan to move to the beach somewhere, but at this stage have not firmed up on a destination.
In broad terms, we have undertaken to remain within a few hours drive of Adelaide until it is time to head north to FNQ in late June (to which we are irrevocably committed), so we now have plenty of options.....the far south coast (Victor Harbor, Pt Elliot, Middleton etc), the Riverland, Yorke Peninsula, the Limestone Coast are all on the table...... 'a virtual holiday at home.'
Of course, the length of this stay will be entirely contingent on Liz's mum. Should the inevitable happen sooner rather than later, once all the necessary arrangements and attendances have been completed, we'll be off.
So there you have it, a mix of some certainty with a large dose of unpredictability, but at least this period of stagnation is about to end. I'll finally be able to stop scratching my feet!!
No comments:
Post a Comment