The patron saint of Australian expats

This is a bittersweet time of year for expats, especially those of us from the Southern Hemisphere and if we have a patron saint it is Clive James.  I was given his wonderful Unreliable Memoirs for Christmas years ago and its influence is obvious.

The second volume covers James' relocation to England and it ends thusly: - 

As I begin this last paragraph, outside my window a misty afternoon drizzle gently but inexorably soaks the City of London.  Down there in the street I can see umbrellas commiserating with each other.  In Sydney Harbour, twelve thousand miles away and ten hours from now, the yachts will be racing on the crushed diamond water under a sky the texture of powdered sapphires.  It would be churlish not to concede that the same abundance of natural blessings which gave us the energy to leave has every right to call us back.  All in, the whippy's taken.  Pulsing like a beacon through the days and nights, the birthplace of the fortunate sends out its invisible waves of recollection.  It always has and it always will, until even the last of us come home. 

Next year in Sydney?*

*With apologies to the Seder