toby

Toby is my grandson, my first grandchild.
There is something absolutely joyous in seeing a new healthy youngster just beginning the wondrous adventure of life. He will start with the enormous benefit of caring, intelligent parents and he will live in a prosperous peaceful community. Even so early he is inquisitive and energetic.
I so much look forward to seeing him develop and grow.
If only I could be confident that his generation will treat this world with the foresight and respect that has been so terribly lacking to this point in time.

Great news - today, he now has his first tooth.

Raison d'etre

Everything needs a raison d’etre, I don’t know why this is so, but it is.

So I will have a blog, and be a blogger.

It is not principally so that my wit and wisdom can explode on a weary world. Rather I hope that it will carry some tales from an adventure that I am planning to undertake. Like Matthew Flinders I hope to circumnavigate the continent of Australia. Unlike Matthew Flinders this will be a road trip. Leaving from Sydney, I plan to proceed in a clockwise direction. So as not to cut any corners I intend to visit the cardinal points of the compass - the southerly, westerly, northerly and easterly points of mainland Australia. I have codenamed the trip - 4CornerS,W,N,E.

I will be travelling predominantly, but not completely, solo. I consider that there are many interesting and convivial people in this big land, it is merely my task to find some. As travel mascot I will have Oliver of Otterburn, he is a Northumbrian Black Faced Sheep who is travelling the globe,  more will be heard of Oliver.

My vehicle will be a 1998 Subaru Forester, a sturdy reliable vehicle that I have much enjoyed driving. It has travelled 192,000kms to this stage of its life, and has many more kms left in it. I will carry a 9’x9’ tent but will be quite happy to hire more salubrious accommodation along the way.

So there we have it - a raison d’etre.