Author: Bob Cumming

Parkrun Milestone – 25 Events

Today Antigone participated in her 25th official* parkrun event.  We have attended Coburg parkrun most Saturdays since returning to Melbourne.  Exceptions were attending Castlemaine parkrun during Maldon Folk Festival and Inverloch parkrun last weekend...

An Unexpected Guest at Malcolm’s Birthday Dinner

Yesterday, 11 February, would have been Malcolm’s (Bob’s Dad’s) birthday. He’s been dead four years, but we continue to get together and remember him on his birthdays. The dinner was at Steve’s, who typically...

Walkers

Walkers, 4-wheel walkers, rollators.  They seem to have lots of names and there are many varieties.  I used to think they were all pretty much alike.  I remember years ago asking my friend Marie...

Peppa Explores Eucla Ruins

The Eucla Telegraph Station was built in the 1870s, with this history quoted from the Nullabor Roadhouse website. The photo above was taken in the Eucla Museum. History of Eucla and the Old Telegraph...

A Big Day Out for Peppa – 12 September

Tuesday morning started like many others, with Peppa lying on Antigone’s chest.  This is the view I often wake up to living in our caravan. Ying invited Antigone and Peppa to join her for...

Farewell to Broome

24/9/3023 – Today we farewell Broome after over 3 months there. It’s been great. Time to make many more friends, largely from the caravan park community, but also from the jetty and from parkrun,...

Parkrun

Broome has a new parkrun*, which started since we arrived here. I was running on the jetty one Saturday morning (1 July) soon after our arrival in Broome when I saw two people wearing...