Well, I knew it was going to happen eventually. Everyone warned me 8 months ago when I got the job at the cat shelter. It will break your heart, they told me. And, this week they were right. I haven’t talked much about the work I do at the shelter but I know that many…

When we think of cats travelling around Australia, what we need to understand is that Willow wasn’t the first and she certainly won’t be the last. This morning we are meeting a 2-year-old Burmese named Bonnie, a little cat that’s travelled some serious miles with her family over the past year. Willow and I park…

Dear Willow, It’s been a funny year, I know. You are a van cat, and Steph and I are van people, but we have had to get used to living in this cottage – I promise you it’s for a good reason. On the weekends the three of us still go away in the van…

This story is a follow on from Checklist for a Campsite in which we didn’t find our campsite for the night. Direct link to the saved Instagram live stream can be found here. We backtracked through the forest as the wallabies scattered and the van swayed over the bumps in the dirt track. It was…

For New Year’s Eve, Willow and I found ourselves camping at the spectacular Flinders Bay on the Tasman Peninsula. The private property has recently been opened up to the public as a camping spot available to be booked out by the night. We joined a group of our friends who had arrived with their own…

We started 2021 on a blueberry farm in NSW and ended it in our home state of Tasmania. Today we look back at my favourite moments from those 12 months with Willow by our side. On Ticoba Farm Willow helped us make some blueberry banana bread. I say helped, but it was more of a…

We’re travelling down a bumpy gravel road in a state forest near Buckland. The road is narrow and some of the overgrown bushes scrape the side of the van as we pass through. The van sways from side to side as I negotiate the dips and holes in the road and avoid the rocks that…

Yesterday was Christmas Eve. After a busy morning working at the cat shelter the staff had a little bbq to celebrate the end of the year. Willow was in the van so I brought her in to meet a few faces she hadn’t met yet, and she got lots of pats. With the van fully…

It’s going to be hot today. Well, hot by Tasmania’s standards. It’s a lovely 25c and not even 10am. Willow is having a quick explore outside before I go into town to pick some raspberries at my brother’s house. It had been nearly 2.5 years since Steph had seen her family back in the UK.…

Willow sits on the stone slab that I placed upon the rockery just days earlier. The area behind the old stables was a mess when we rented the cottage, overgrown with weeds and dirt. I scraped the dirt from the cobbled brick path and pulled out the weeds. The finishing touch was the stone slab…