To be sung to a Sarah Vaughan song …. And I can’t remember the name of it but it suddenly just came to me when they told me of their predicament!!!
They hurried through the party
Hurried through farewells
Left before the sun coming up was through
Why did they hurry through the party
And hurry through farewells
To leave some time for dawdling
To find the barge in Darwin is cancelled now
Having left Sunday morning they drove at rocket speed from Melbourne to Port Augusta in one day. They were intending to arrive in Darwin on Thursday to meet a barge to Dili.
Monday morning they found out the barge from Darwin to Dili has been cancelled and there may not be another one to catch for ten days. So they are stuck literally in the middle of nowhere. Jon has described their locality as “four fifths of ….. all to see or doâ€. I think the highlight of their day was a detour to Woomera.
To make the situation even worse for them all the 21st century gadgetry that Jon has accumulated over the last six months isn’t accessible. He is unable to communicate with the world because the satellite thingy won’t work with another thingamajig.
Jon has probably broken out in hives having to live with relevance deprivation. Jack will definately be going spare because he can’t get access to the Age On Line which is his morning ritual.
I am left with sole access to their blog. At this rate receiving my version of their trip could be seriously boring.
