STATE OF GRACE

When you’re doing 10 months and 35,000km around Australia with your “significant other”, the two of you spend all day, every day of the entire journey together, much of it in the confines of your vehicle and your caravan/camper trailer, so the dynamics of your relationship can at times get a little weird.

Let’s put it this way. Such an intense, lengthy period of togetherness will never put seriously wrong things right. Chances are you’ll end up detesting each other instead, providing action-packed entertainment and wondrous schadenfreude moments for your fellow travellers in the caravan park when total war is inevitably declared.

A perfectly harmonious, loving relationship may also come under strain as Groundhog Day syndrome sets in and you simply run out of things to talk about, apart from those annoying, and increasingly significant, character defects you didn’t realise your beloved possessed until you left home.

Working on the long-established principle that says, “If she’s happy, I’m happy”, I am more than willing to tolerate, and even indulge, the Style Queen’s little quirks.