After careers as an ambulance paramedic and then a train driver in the UK, Terry Hewitt and his wife Claire decided that life was too short to spend just working. They sold everything they owned across five car boot sales, finally selling what remained - and the table - for a fiver, driving off and then selling the car. The house followed. Knowing they’d have to contend with some unintelligible languages, they spent the first nine weeks in the carpark of a pub in North Wales before volunteering in a leprosy rehab village in Ghana, a year in India, some time in Malaysia before then doing a lap of Australia in Tilly, a converted school bus.

It was during this time that Terry, encouraged by Claire, started indulging in his love of photography.

They eventually ran out of money and made the decision to relocate to Australia permanently. What they couldnt decide on was what beach they would live near, so settled on the town nearest every beach in the country, and moved to Alice Springs.

Just over a year into their life there, things took a more tragic turn. Claire was driving in the outback in her role as a public health nurse when she managed to roll her car. She rolled six times, quite successfully, but in her words, ‘f*cked up the landing’. She suffered catastrophic injuries, was eventually flown to Adelaide by the RFDS for treatment thinking it would be for a few weeks, but those few weeks turned into thirteen years.

Claire died in 2023. Life really is too short.