Hight Tea at the Stamford Hotel

I have been very neglectful of my blog, but life is soooooo busy, but let me start and work backwards.
Today Georgie (Martins wife) invited her mum, her mums friend Pat from Adelaide, Dorothy  Snelleman (Bert's wife) and myself to high tea at the Stamford. It was so beautiful there and such lovely company and the food was delicious so much to eat and a glass of champers, at ten am wow! but we all managed to don it down.
Tony was driving me to the train when we heard there was a problem at Central, so he drove me to Chermside and I caught the bus into the city, the bus is terrific and it only took 15mins to King George Square, from there I walked to the Stamford. We stayed at the hotel until almost 12noon. Georgie dropped me off at Roma Street and Tony picked me up at Narangba all in all I was out for half a day.

Eventually got the dresses for the girls in Mt Isa some of them had only been worn once and the manager of the Vinnies Store in Morayfield gave them to me for such a good price, they arrived safely in Mt Isa on Tuesday and the girls are over the moon with them. According to Anne they wanted to start wearing them straight away and the shoes she almost had to drag them from their feet, just waiting to get some photos from the formal which will be next week

Anne has decided to come back to Brissie and as yet has not secured a job but has had a couple of interviews so please god it wont be long before she will be set here, and it has solved our problem of a house sitter when we go overseas.

We have filled out the forms to go to Hong Kong and have decided we will not go there for Chinese New Year but instead will get there at the end of January or early February.
We caught up with one of the ladies who has been to Hong Kong as a volunteer 2years ago and she gave us an insight on what to expect when we get there. Its somewhat different to what I was expecting, but then again I had no idea what to expect.

Not a lot happening at present, except lots and lots of voluntary work and everytime I see Rita she has another job for me, this week it was house cleaning and we are on a two week roster, but only for 6 weeks. But I do enjoy doing it.

Can't think of anything else for the moment but if I do I'll add to this

My quiet day at home

Tuesday is an at home day and my quiet day.  Went for walk and saw the sun rise over the bay, did some washing and mopping floors and then mostly relax.

Then tried to make a phone call only to find the land line dead so spent the next 20 minutes speaking to someone in India (Optus) regarding this, but eventually I managed to get through to him and within the next half hour there was a technician on the job and walla phone fixed.

Have an appointment with Morayfield Vinnies on Thursday  to look at the formal wear for the students at the Flexi school.

I found this wonderful Country music on the net and had such a lovely time listening to the old time music.

Had a long chat with Anne and still no resolvement on what she is doing next year.

OOps spoke to soon just had a call from Care and Concern and now my Tuesdays have been called on,  I will be on a cleaning roster  for a family of 4 with a very sick child who have no family to help out. I'm so lucky!!!
So once a month I'll be mowing and once a month on house cleaning and once a month on church cleaning.
I know God has a sense of humour, he knows I don't like cleaning or dusting ect ect.

All for today.

Shopping for Formal Dresses

Monday again, so same start walk along the shorefront see the sun rising and hearing the birds sing, this is how paradise is.
Go to Mass and catch up with friends and spoke to Clare about her time in Hong Kong and got a few pointers from her, she is coming over soon with all the ins and outs of the schools there.

These storms clouds cleared up and it is a beautiful sunny day

Had a call from Anne re Formal wear for her students for their formal, so off I went to the store with recycled clothes with my trusty camera, but as usual I should have checked the battery first so have only taken 7 photos. I will go to the Red Cross store tomorrow and the Vinnies at Morayfield  I'm told there is a great selection there.
 I will add some more after I've been shopping tomorrow

Sunday at Indooroopilly

One of my greatest pleasures once a month is that we go over to Indooroopilly on a Sunday morn and go to Mass with Martin and family. The children are so good and I think they enjoy it as much as we do. We then went back to their place and had a lovely breakie, followed by delicious chocolate truffles made by Georgie, again so decadent and fattening!!
The loveliest thing about today is that when we were leaving Henry called out he wanted to go to church with Nana and Grandad, it really makes life so worth while.

Martin googling fares to Hong Kong, I think we have our first visitors booked to come see us there  (hope so)
Not much happening so I might go for a stroll to the beach and have a lazy reading my book.

Mixed Week some good some not so good

Week started off as usual, I was very excited about getting the formal clothes for the students at Anne's school and had them all lined up. Anne rang to say (a) she didn't get the job up in the gulf, and then the administrator of her present school was not going to pay her for the Christmas holidays, she was so disappointed hearing this, considering all the work and effort she has put into this school and how the Principal kept telling her they would come to the party, but alas it was not to be, so it looks like its back to the drawingboard for her to come back to Brissie and consider her options! On the up side of this it solves our problem of house sitter for the 4 or 5 months that we will be in Hong Kong

Friday Joseph rang to say they had bought a beautiful house in Point Cook in Melbourne and that they will be on TV on Location Location some time in the future. We are so very happy for them.

Saturday Margaret-Mary and I went to lunch at Bretts Wharf, very very posh!! oh so nice!!  Oyseters Natural, Rib Fillet Steak, (so tender it would melt in your mouth) followed by a decadent dessert. I didn't get to meet Alister but I did have my photo with the Pelican?

Happy Days

Went for my usual walk along the beach this am and Tony said he'd come but I couldn't get him moving before 5am eventually we got there, had breakie and then I mowed the yard, did my usual chores and had everything done before 8.30am. We then went to Mass and am still trying to catch the nun who might be interested in house sitting for us.

At about 11am I had a call from Melbourne re Hong Kong and horay horay we are definately going, maybe not as early as we thought but definately by early February, the secretary is sending out the forms today.

Then I went looking for formal dresses for Anne's Indigenous girls and I saw some lovely ones at the Red Cross shop and hopefully once I get sizes from Anne I will go get them. I will take my camera tomorrow and get some idea if this is what Anne is looking for.  I'm hoping Martin is ready to update his wardrobe and send them for the boys
Then Rita rang and wants cakes for a funeral tomorrow, so I will get up early and have them ready for her when she calls over around 7am, I have a lovely date slice which I got from Georgie.