As Claire Ayling sees it, moving to Goulburn was fate. If she hadn’t been a quilter, she would never have been trawling around on the internet, checking out the provincial NSW city, where a quilting friend lived. And she would never have stumbled across the 1840s former guesthouse, Mandelson’s of Goulburn, on a real estate site. And she and her Australian army officer husband, Steve, would never have become the proud owners of the Goulburn landmark building and put down roots after a lifetime on the road.
The self-confessed English nomad met Steve when she was teaching British army children. They married in 1979 and
