Aug ’24

WHAT HAPPENED TO WINTER?

We seem to have gone from one extreme weather-wise, to the other. July saw some crazily low temperatures. August has seen unseasonally high temperatures! Bit hard to keep up!

Early August, my husband and I ticked an item off the Bucket List. We travelled from Darwin at the top of Australia, through the Red Centre, to Adelaide at the bottom onboard The Ghan.

The trip was truly amazing. Honestly—the train, their staff, the vista out the window—were all fabulous.

We left home in the early, dark hours of a winter morning with temperatures close to zero celsius and stepped out of a plane in Darwin to thirty degrees and rising. Out of the jeans and jumpers and into summer clothes for a few days in Darwin before we set off on the train.

Top: Darwin sunsets really are as good as they say! Right: Darwin Gourmet Tours have a food and art tour. The food is amazing and the street art comes alive when viewed through an app. The painted crab walked down the wall!!

We arrived in Adelaide expecting cold weather again, to find they were having a warm spell, which seems to have continued for the rest of the country throughout August.

We seemed to have bypassed the end of winter and spring and jumped straight to summer. The plants in the garden are as confused as I am!

From a writing perspective, Angel has been jumping off the page. So much so, that I took a small notebook and pen with me on holidays to jot down any ideas that came to me so I wouldn’t lose them. I covered quite a few pages over the course of the week 🙂

Alex is due back from proofreading at the end of the month and will then be prepared for publication. Publication of Angel will take through to the end of the year and that will bring the Abraham sisters’ stories to an end.

Because I love this family so much, I’ve decided to do the stories for the boys next year. There have been some Easter eggs planted in the sisters’ stories for eagle-eyed readers.