I couldn’t leave Lorelle’s place at Buddina, Sunshine Coast, without going down to the beach. I snuck out the house before anyone had stirred and spent a glorious hour walking on the beach path and the sand… Laden with photographs and frangipanis, I returned to the house for breakfast with Lorelle and Monica (my old friend’s beautiful guest from Germany); and soon I was making tyre-tracks back to Brisbane and the arms of my gorgeous boyfriend Mason (well he says I’m his girlfriend – he’s only three!).