lanning ahead






When you want to plan something with Pearlie Shirley, you have to make the plan well in advance. The very idea of spontaneity is an anathema; she is an organized person, whose life set out in a very structured format.

And so it has come to pass that after much consulting of diaries and engagement planners etc., we now have a space in April where we will be able to take one day and run off to central Victoria. As well a time and date constraints, there are weather constraints to be considered; hot days are out of the question and the cold winter days get the thumbs down too. Free time, when you are working is all too precious to frittered away doing something frivolous; that something has to fit within strict parameters.

This little touring idea came about when Pearlie Shirley gave me a present some time back; a book that sets out several drives of interest within Victoria. The one I have chosen is one of the shorter ones and it will take us through the Central Goldfields area with plenty of opportunities for coffee and stops along the way.

All I have to do now is remember when April rolls around that this date has already been set in stone. And hope that the autumn weather is on its best behaviour.