I've been in Adelaide since Friday night, staying with my daughter Billy Jo and her partner Fab. Eldest son Allen came to visit with Ben, his firstborn, on Saturday and it was lovely to have a family meal. Yesterday we celebrated step-grandson Daniel's fifteenth birthday and tomorrow I move on to Perth, where, until recently, I'd been living for 20 years. I am looking forward, very much, to seeing friends and family members who live there. I think part of me will always call Perth home.

I'm busy editing a thesis for one client and have an astrology report to finish for another. I can see that writing and editing will be well-nigh impossible while I'm travelling - right now I'm using Billy Jo's very slow computer with only dial up. The first morning it took me three hours just to clear my e-mails!:-( Funny how we get used to new innovations so quickly, and how quickly activities catch up. Blogging, which has become very popular since the advent of broadband, is so-oo slow on dial-up I would never have bothered before.

I hope I can get a bit of writing done as I was just getting back into it after my move from Perth to Mount Gambier. I've drafted seven chapters of the new novel and passed them on to my Face2Face group, with whom I will meet on Thursday to hear their verdicts. It will be great to see them again and go to the local coffee shop for lunch, too! I've had some very useful feedback recently from that group and from KSP buddies including Carol Ryles and Helen Venn as well on a couple of short stories I'd like to polish up and send out soon. I hope I can find a good internet café everywhere I go so I can carry on exchanging crits!