The Journey So Far
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Reunited – And It Feels So Good !
Forgive me borrowing this week’s banner from the classic Peaches and Herb song, but after 84 days apart ( we last saw our rig on December 14 in Savannah), over a month of which the Talisman sat just waiting in Bass Strait, and an at times traumatic...
Return to Forbes
While we have patiently continued the waiting game in Temora, there has been some progress with our ship - read Postscript: Shipping Update ( at the end of the blog ) for the gripping details. Other than that, a pretty short blog along with a very slight change of...
Port of Melbourne: Update
Given the extraordinary delays in unloading the Talisman I decided to research what was happening in the nation’s ports - I came across an online article that pretty well spelled it all out ( see the link to it in the Postscript: Shipping Update section at the end of...
Melbourne – The Mornington Peninsula
To be honest, we’d been more than just a little disheartened this past week after the ongoing unloading delay outlined in the last blog ( I dare not even mention the “s” word - we just call it a “transportation delay” now, it’s so depressing ). It’s typical when...
On To Melbourne
Not sure where the time went but it seems suddenly we looked at the calendar and it was time to head to Melbourne for a long-anticipated rendezvous with our rig - or so we hoped anyway. The “car switch” a week before meant we now had a Victorian-plated vehicle making...
Forbes : A Walk Down Memory Lane
To follow our ( seemingly never-ending ) shipping drama please see the postscript at the bottom of this blog. It’s so depressing I simply could not bear to put it front and centre in any update. That said, it does dictate our life right now so it can’t be ignored....
