“IN THAT MOMENT IT FELT LIKE WE WERE THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD”
The tradition started in 2013. I’d met – and fallen in love with – Alex “Chumpy” Pullin a couple of months earlier at a friend’s birthday party, and we were spending our first New Year’s Day together as a couple. We trekked up to Barrenjoey Lighthouse, overlooking Palm Beach on Sydney’s northern beaches, with a bottle of champagne, snacks, a picnic blanket and Chumpy’s guitar. We found a flat rock on the edge of the cliff with the most epic views of the coast, and it became “our rock”. I sat behind Chumpy and wrapped my legs around his waist, like a little koala cuddling a eucalyptus tree. Chumpy strummed his guitar and I looked out to the water with my head resting on his shoulder. In that moment, it felt like we were the only people in the world. And that’s exactly the way we liked it.
It became a ritual. Every New Year’s Day, we’d head to our rock and make our resolutions for the
