Watermarks

If the opportunity to reflect and reconsider the move did present itself in those early weeks of planning I certainly ignored it. I steamrollered my way through preparations for the move to Tasmania happy in my favourite role of problem solver. It wasn't until I walked into the strange kitchen located the pantry and stored the few bits I had picked up at the supermarket near the airport that I understood the enormity of my decision. </P><P>And I'd forgotten to buy milk. </P><P>The property in Tasmania was beautiful isolated and I was alone. This was sink or swim stuff. It would last a year; a year in which I would be resentful defiant and sometimes content. </P>