Category: the beginning is near…

life continues with normal … I am loving the slow life in Laverton, however, my mind has turned towards my next rotation in Kalgoorlie which begins in August. I am trying to soak up all the time I can have here in Laverton. So here’s a little bit of life lately…. Refuelling after an ambo…

all good times must end and so i farewelled Jerome. the life of a Birch includes many goodbyes – its part of being connected to a family spread across the globe. no matter how often we say goodbye it never seems to get easier hard goodbyes are always made a little easier with a coffee….don’t…

Like I said before lots of road trips happen when you live remote. Also lots of oversized trucks. Heres a photo of one that took up the whole road…how selfish 😉 And yes…that is another storm building in the background. Recently storms build in the middle of the day to the late afternoon and bump…

life returned to “normal” once I travelled back to LA. Back to work, back to cleaning and cooking and all that fun stuff. Autumn flowers are in full bloom and the butterflies are soaking up the autumn sun (and frankly so am I!) The beginnings of a nice sunset and the end of a job…

at the end of march I headed to Perth for my graduation ceremony. A long trip from Laverton to Perth. Firstly, drove 4hrs to kalgoorlie and then flew to Perth from there. Always gotta be aware of the cows on the road, even with my prado and a roo bar I think if we came…

While I have some motivation I will continue with another post. The beginning of March set 1 month since moving to Laverton so I made a trip to Kalgoorlie for groceries and a dose of socialisation (needed for this social butterfly). Woke at 5am for an early morning run and got to see a lovely…

Wow, its been so long since I’ve written – partly due to being busy but also just being slack. Only 2 days after my last post we had a random storm that dumped 50mm of rain. Which meant that Skull Creek (the creek that runs alongside town) flowed again. Wow that was something beautiful to…

Another week has past in Laverton and everyday I am feeling more settled in town. On sunday I went across to Leanora for church and was also able to visit Hoover house. I learnt many things including about president herbert hoover’s time in Leanora. This mine is the deepest underground trucking mine in the world…