It Begins - Ahh the Land
This move has been on the horizon for an awful long time. For too many years I'd fantasised about us relocating up to the Hunter Valley. We've been coming here for decades and just love it. My Dad and his family first lived in Newcastle when immigrating from Holland after the war (Dad worked in the BHP factory), and Lynda's family used to have a dairy farm out near Branxton. So you could say we have roots here. We'd also lived on acres in rural communities before and loved it. It's easier said than done though, just picking up and moving. We lived on the NSW Central Coast and I was working shift work on Sydney Harbour with the ferries. Lynda was always flat out with her own graphic/web design business and a couple decades flew by as we happily raised our kids and generally made ends meet like everyone else. The last thing we wanted to do was change the kid's school and break their circles of friends. Also Lynda is very close with her family, who lived nearby