November 8

All this going on about work-life balance is not to say I dislike my job – its actually not that bad (as far as selling your soul to fund your lifestyle goes). One of the better parts is that I get to travel around and see parts of the country I otherwise wouldn’t see. Okay, most of these places are not on the tourist ‘must visit’ list and ‘seeing’ is probably an overstatement – we usually arrive at the train station, go to the venue, then back to the station and straight back home (add a hotel and a local restaurant to this if we are staying overnight) – but still, its good to experience a bit of the real England.

Today I went to place called Westcliff-on-Sea, which was (wait for it…) on the sea. It instantly reminded me how lucky we are in Melbourne to combine city living with the therapeutic benefits of being close to water. One of the things we want to do when we come back is a favourite walk along the path from North Road beach to St Kilda Pier – and I’ve just googled to see that the kiosk has been re-opened – so everything will be back as we remembered it and all will be well in the world.