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Home Is Wherever I’m With You

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September 12, 2012
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Sometimes it’s good to travel a bit further than your own backyard, right? Sometimes you need to go HOME!

I’m at home now. Well, it’s not my NOW home, but it’s my childhood home.  I lived here until I was nine and nearly all my family have scattered across the country, but eventually returned to Tassie.  Except for my sister and I.  We are the renegades, planting ourselves firmly in Sydney and Melbourne and making intermittent trips to our OTHER home.

I’ve lived in Melbourne for 25 years, but I still feel that deep sense of belonging when I come back to Hobart.  It’s pretty nice to drive these roads again, taking in the yellowy poplar trees, the snow capped Mt Wellington, the bridge spanning the water from ‘the other side of the river’ to the Hobart side. The familiar houses running up and down hills like colourful dominoes.  The inlets and rivers snaking their way through the greenery. This is where I grew!

This kind of home is like playing a favourite record, carefully pulling it from its cover for the first time in years, blowing off the dust and watching it all spin as the words and sounds and memories come flooding back.  As it plays, people and places tumble out. Meals eaten, toys lost, parties given, puppies patted, swings swung, things done. Aw.

Sometimes it’s good to travel a bit further, right? When was the last time you went home? Where is home, for you?

xx Pip

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  • Reannon Hope

    I moved A LOT when I was little, like every 6 months! When I was 7 we settled on the Central Coast of NSW. When I was almost 16 we moved to the Mid North Coast of NSW. When we first moved I ket saying “I’m moving back to the coast ASAP”. It still felt like home, like I belonged there. But time moved on. I settled in ( while my family moved back to the Central Coast ) & ended up living in that town until I was 27. I met my husband there, had my babies there, got married & bought my first home there.
    In 2007 we decided to move to Perth.It took a LONG time to settle in, to get used to everything, to make friends but now it feels like home. Forster ( on the Mid North Coast) is still home in a sense, we stil have family there & we have history there, but I feel settled here in Perth.
    I’m taking my boys back to Forster next month to watch my baby brother get married. I’m always happy to go back & visit, drive past our old home, visit my favourite bakery, see if anything has changed. It’s comforting, it’s full of so many memories, familiar faces & places, but it is always the best feeling landing at Perth airport & knowing I am home.