I on the other had have been very busy with work and Girl Guides. At the end of March I went up to the Yorke Peninsula to see my clients. I spent 3 days up there and Mark came up to join me for the weekend. This part of work seems to be going really well, I am now working on advertising our service to others on the Yorke Peninsula to try and up my caseload and vision loss awareness in general.
Girl Guides is going really well, I have been in contact with the Guide units at home and we have arranged to begin pen-pals, with the hope that one day the girls will all meet each other. The letters have now arrived from Wales and I have the job of matching them up. It was really nice reading them as there were a number of girls in the collection of letters that I knew personal. Our unit has also gained another Guider too, which has been lovely as she is in her early 20’s and brings so much to the unit, also nice to have the extra support. The girls have been busy this term working on their Go Girl Challenge and as part of this I arranged to take the girls indoor climbing last week. It was great fun; I’m not sure who had more fun me or them.
This month we have also been getting the finally bits of the house sort for the winter (this sounds so wrong in April). It may be autumn here for it has not spot me from doing my spring cleaning or should I say ‘winter springing’, mum. Mark has also been busy mending things, we have finally fix my Granny’s lamp, which is proudly position on my piano and he has finally fixed his panniers to his commuter bike (so he will now fit in with Adelaide cyclists).
As I told you early Mark and I have spent a weekend up in the Yorke Peninsula. It’s the most beautiful place, and I may have found my home. It feels weird to think that nearly 12 months ago I was a community OT in Wigan and now I’m a OT in the Australian Outback (how cool). Anyway we had a fantastic weekend, very relaxing and fully recommended for a trip if you find yourself this way. We spent most of the weekend doing 4 by 4 driving around the Peninsula taking in the sights on the way.
Here are some of the pictures taken during the weekend. They will be more on flikr at some point.
Mark Left the Yorke Peninsula early on Monday morning and catched a few pictures of the sun raise on his camera. I on the other hand returned to bed and began work at 8am and return to Adeladie later in the day, after confronting my first kangaroo on the road.
A couple of weeks ago we took a day trip up to the Murray River, what an amazing place. We even found an area that looks like the Yorkshire Dales. Below is a picture of the Murray River and our new car a Land Rover Freelander.
This weekend has been a quiet one as we have both had a very busy week following our weekend away. Today (Saturday) Mark has been working and I have been spring cleaning. About five o’clock we went for a walk in Mount Osmond which is just up the road. It was lovely it was like walking on the Malvern Hills near Great Malvern (which is where I spent my gap year). On our walk we saw deer and a koala. Tomorrow we are off to a wine tasting session in the Adelaide hills, though I will be learning to spit.
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