The Past Few Months…
See the picture above?
I took it standing at my front door and in it you can see EVERYWHERE I have been for the past eleven weeks.
(apart from here and here on three day trips)
Seriously, I have not been more than 250m from my front door in eleven weeks.
School, work, the park, the town deli/post office and the pub on a Friday night.
It is doing my head in.
I have not been to anyones house for a cuppa nor for an evening stroll. I have not found my bestie here. I have not been in my house without my children.
I have nothing interesting to say. I am empty of everything; I have nothing to give. I am lacking inspiration. From a parents perspective, our town is depressing.
This is my only escape; sitting on the couch out front with a book, watching the road trains go by.
A trip after school to the local servo to see the big trucks in an occasion…
I take a LOT of photos from my front door – they really are magnificent.
That building above (the old Gentlemen’s Club) is opposite our house and is where I work each morning as the town rates officer.
A photo of our house, walking back from the Deli down the road on a Sunday morning….
My evening TV companion…
The desert is so beautiful, so enveloping and sparse that it is somehow indescribably claustrophobic. I feel suffocated by its isolation.
We leave tomorrow to Perth for the school holidays, a 650km trip.
I cannot WAIT!!
We are staying with family, visiting beautiful friends, going out to dinner and being actual people with actual lives outside a 250m radius!
I also have a two day trip to Melbourne planned to see my cyber bestie . Just me and Jane – I cannot even BEGIN to tell you how happy this makes me; I MISS seeing friends face to face.
It is SUCH a luxury!
I am sure I will keep you posted and that I will come back refreshed and revitalised and ready to do another 10 weeks of the Groundhog Day that is term three in our town
We are going to have THE MOST FABULOUS TIME. xx
Jane @ Almost Jane recently posted…All By Myself.
Yep parenthood sucks during term time. Thank goodness for cyberspace. Which wasnt around when my kids were little
Have a fantastic time away!!!!