Heading off on Day 1 en Voyage queues feature early – reminding me too late of my rule never to fly on Monday mornings. This is an easy first hop – just a one hour flight and one hour drive from home.

St Joseph’s Centre Baulkham Hills is a Josephite Convent, appropriately situated in MacKillop Road. Originally the House of Formation, it is now a Retreat House set in beautiful grounds complete with stone labyrinth.

A retreat would have been a good way to transition between the chaos of the last few weeks at work and 5 weeks holiday. While two keynotes in two days does not seem the stuff of retreat, it is great to catch up with dedicated school library staff and share their conference.

Looking to Wikipedia to learn more about the history of the St Joseph’s Centre led to the article Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart but no mention of Baulkham Hills. [More research required]

I took some photos to upload to Wikimedia Commons but oh dear, no laptop rule on The Voyage so off to download and test the Wikimedia Commons app. Seems to work well provided the photos were taken on the device which has the app loaded.

The after dinner speaker at this conference is author Claire Zorn.

According to Wikipedia her YA book The sky so heavy (ISBN 9780702249761) was nominated for the 2013 Aurealis Award but her name is in the dreaded red ink – meaning ‘go no further’, no article exists. There is no mention of her nomination in the 2014 Children’s Book of the Year Awards Older Reader category.

Could be a job for the overworked editors on the Wikipedia Children’s Literature Portal. However there is not much secondary reference material online about Claire and while she shares  many insights with us in her talk this doesn’t provide the citations required to start an article. I did get this photo – but not the permission I feel I need to post it to Wikimedia Commons.