It’s many months since I posted here but as today is the 7th anniversary of starting this blog, it seems a good time to reconnect, review and post anew.
It is also 7 years since I took redundancy from my old London city banking job. My husband and I sold our home, packed up our UK life and travelled to Tasmania for an “adult gap year”. We fell in love with this beautiful island at the bottom of Australia and made friends here. After the extended gap year, we found jobs here, bought a house and we continue to call Hobart home.
So, to begin a “Month of Gratitude” here is a photo of snow on kunanyi/Mount Wellington taken from Bellerive Beach. I am grateful that I can walk on a beach on my way to work.

Great to see your blog Ruth! Congratulations on seven years!
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Thanks Rainee.
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Hello again Ruth, lovely to see your beautiful Tasmanian photos, I haven’t heard anything about Tasmania since Covid hit. Congratulations on seven years!
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Thanks Gerrie. Hope you are doing ok in lockdown. I’ll catch up on some of your posts in next few days to get updates on life in Canberra, and I’ll share bits about Tassie life which is still fairly normal.
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Yes you have been very lucky!
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Welcome back!! What a beautiful beach! How cool that you guys made your home in Tasmania, eager to hear morw about how you followed your hearts!
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Thanks Joy.
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How lovely to see you again! I have missed hearing about Tassie and seeing your lovely photos. Hope all is good with your family on the mainland, I suspect visiting them has been tricky over the last 18 months.
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Hi Jude. Thanks for your comment last week, it helped push me to post again. It has been tricky but ok. A few things I will share in the coming weeks. Hope all ok with you and your family.
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How beautiful does that look, Ruth? Seems you have chosen well 🤗💕
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Lovely to see you back Ruth. We lived not far from that lovely beach when we house sat for a while. I can certainly understand how you fell in love with Hobart. Look forward to hearing more about how your part of Aussie is coping.
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Thank you Pauline. Looking forward to catching up with your blog and others in the coming days.
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End of month post in the pipeline….
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What a great choice you made in Tassie. Congrats on seven years of your blog. You’re one year in front of me. 😊
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Thanks Miriam.
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