I���m writing this camped beside Lake Boga in Victoria, after cycling around the lake, smiling at the turtles on the rocks and admiring the cascades of gazanias ringing the bike path.

I should be holding up my new book, ���How to Repaint a Life��� in front of hundreds of school students, but ��� you know the story. I���ve seen school tours of Victoria and South Australia to promote the book disappear in a haze of rising case numbers and continuing (necessary) lockdowns. I���m not complaining - th...