It has come time to move Basil further on his journey and send him to Derek Andrews in River John, Nova Scotia. Getting all that luggage packed has only been surpassed by the amount of cajoling I have needed to do to keep him moving.
Basil wanted to stay a little longer and tried to […]

Oh what a weekend! I don’t know how Ben keeps up with that Donkey. Basil has not stopped all weekend. There were supposed to be some updates for you throughout the weekend but the moment I took my eye of Basil he was off on another adventure.
As I was getting ready for the Australian Business […]

It has been a quiet couple of days for Basil. Even though he is so eager to see the sites it seems that the travel has caught up with him - all those limo rides, disco dancing in Boston, train trips, visiting cultural monuments, and architectural inspections I am not surprised.
Even a quiet game […]

Basil is fitting in very well with the Maclean family - a code-writing donkey (I have a backlog of work he could be doing), that drinks Bundy rum (my husband Ian still has a sore head) and is interested in Australian outdoor life like surfing and rugby league. What’s not to like.
After we sat […]

Well there I was among the throng of people at Sydney’s International Airport waiting at the Arrivals Hall. I had expected to be there a few days earlier to collect Basil, but in his usual fashion the recalcitrant code-writing donkey took a detour. Thankfully Ben managed to let me know that Basil wouldn’t […]