I have about a week and a half left at Deep Well, and then I'm back on the road again. I can't wait to start travelling again, but I'm going to miss outback life. It's so peaceful (most of the time) and I have spent every afternoon for the past four days sat in a tree with the youngest boy playing house. With monsters. I love it! Over the Easter weekend we all went to a bush festival at Aileron, which is a roadhouse with a racecourse about 100km north of Alice, ...

I've been at Deep Well since Thursday, and am settling in OK. Deep Well is about an hours drive south-ish out of Alice Springs. It's interesting to see how different stations operate. At Napperby there were a couple of families, a couple of men, backpackers and the owners, whereas here there's just me and the family. My job is to clean and keep an eye on the kids. There are three boys here, and they are lovely and very polite - everyone is so well brought up in t...