SATURDAY 26 JUNE     ALICE SPRINGS

It was a chilly day again today.

We drove to the town centre where I changed library books again, and we bought the papers.

After lunch, John went to bowls at the Alice Springs club.

I read the papers, made a batch of kumara soup, cooked a roast beef and vegies dinner.

V phoned. They plan to leave Perth early next month, head north up the coast, see friends in Derby and then make their way to Darwin and then down the Centre to Melbourne – by mid October, when she has a school reunion. She hopes to get Outdoor Ed work through spring and summer, then they will travel the east coast. I enjoyed the long talk with her. Apparently, she has left messages while we were out of range but somehow, they dropped off the system.