Blue Mountains

Spent a couple of nights in the Mountains visiting some friends.

Found out it was our Uncle John and Aunty Sunny's 48th wedding anniversary on the 29th December. That was some coincidence that we happened to drop in on that day.

Hung out in expensive Leura and made an expensive toy purchase. However, now we are back in Sydney I realise that we could have bought it cheaper on the net. So we shall be converting to online shopping for the future. Therein lies another lesson!

Also reckon that lot of those restaurants and cafes are overrated and too expensive for what they provide. Tourist traps.

Joanne Kee
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Merry Christmas

Christmas bus in the city

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Whatever...: Cupcake fever

Whatever...: Cupcake fever

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Cupcake fever

Visit http://thisaintnotardis.blogspot.com/ for the cupcake story.

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Santa comes to the Greyhound track

Ok, yes, here I am again, bad parent, what am I teaching my daughter? Santa arrived by ute on the greyhound track! Great Australian values.

Wentworth Park Greyhounds had free entry for families, present from Santa, bouncey castle, petting zoo and face painting all for free. All this to the background of races being called, bookies in place and of course the long TAB counter.

OK, we are unlikely to ever go back to watch the greyhound races, but was blown away with the real estate that the dogs have, how on earth do they afford that space, when there are so few people going?

Also was fascinated by that bunny zooming around the track.

Ho, ho, ho

Joanne Kee
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Arran's Christmas Poem

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Flash Mob

If you are interested in a flash mob and live in sydney, check this out.





Joanne Kee
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Christmas carols at Elizabeth farm

So what is it about Christmas carols, that the songs are always played so that it is very hard to sing along. Either too high, or the tempo is super fast or slow.

It must be why women singing in church always have that strained kind of thing happening.

Having said that, this was a lovely space for carols. It was a rather refreshing Christmas carols, not too big, so the kids could run around, you could see the band and the singing, there was plenty of room to spread out.

All the kids got to line up for Santa and received a gift. The setup allowed the kids to go up the front and sing along, or listen to the Night before Christmas.

Definitely one of the better carols I have been to.

Joanne

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Christmas Cards

This weekend we have been busy making Christmas and other cards. Quite satisfying really and some of them actually look quite good.

If anyone fancies giving it a try, really good materials are available at Amazing paper. Plus I have seen materials at Big W and Officeworks.


Joanne Kee
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Canberra

Just came back from a weekend in Canberra to face the scorching heat in Sydney. Hopefully this is not indicative of the summer to come.

Canberra was fun, we went to see Bangarra's Fire at the Canberra Theatre. Fantastic show.

Then we experienced Canberra nightlife in Civic, even managing a late meal. It was really buzzing around there.

Joanne Kee
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walk clontarf to Manly

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Next consultancy

Rather nice, I mentioned to a few people that I am looking for some work and low and behold something arrives pretty quickly. Still waiting for official confirmation, but it is rather gratifying to think that the work I have done thus far holds some weight.

Joanne Kee
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Which way to go

Had a really nice morning talking to Rosemarie about her bookbinding and plans for the future. It is a great feeling to be able to point someone in a direction they want to go in.

So my saying is Live your own dreams, not someone elses.


Joanne Kee
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Good to be home Dorothy

Just back from a sauna like weekend in Wangaratta.

Nice to be home, enjoyed the jazz but hated the heavy handed security and what was that about being pulled over by the police because I flashed my lights at them. What sort of flimsy excuse was that to pull me over?

After going to Wang for 3 years, for the first time there was a very unpleasant feeling about the place.

Joanne Kee
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Misinterprotato with Froy @ Qirkz

Gig on a rainy sunday night at quirky venue Qirkz which lives up to its name.

Some beautiful compositions accompanied by the sound of rain on a steel roof.

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How to Act around cops

Saw a fun show How to act around cops, fast paced and black comedy.

However we were rather surprised by what we all felt was a high ticket price. $37 for theatre at Darlinghurst. Whilst I think the arts and artists should get fair reward for their craft, have to admit the price nearly stopped us from going. We only bit the bullet in the end because Leland directed it.

Sadly I am wondering if other prospective audience members had the same thought, as it was nearly empty. A show this entertaining and so topical should have been packed.

Joanne Kee
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Weekend

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Melbourne

Just been to Melbourne and back in a whirlwind.

How annoying to have two of my three appointments cancel on me. Come to think of it, this seems to be a pretty regular occurrence in Melbourne, is it normal?

Went to a Melbourne Festival Event, dance piece which is 10 years old. I have to admit, it looked 10 years old, would have loved to have seen some real dancing, the little glimpses we saw were tantalising.

Have to admit that I preferred the film I saw today Departures, a charming Japanese film, about death, but still quite uplifting in its own way.

Had an idiot taxi driver miss the turnoff, so it cost a small fortune to get to the airport. How doubly annoying. When I checked in at the airport the staff said I was the third person that day who had had the same problem.

Joanne Kee
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Rainy long weekend

Slothy toad of a weekend. Found it v. hard to leave the house today, however, we did to brave printing our photos at Officeworks.

Arran is now onto Zines, as I gave her a couple that I picked up while in Newcastle. Her first one is pretty impressive and very cute.

We also did a photo shoot of Hoppy Vanderhare and Muffy Vanderbare to create their own style magazines. I was photographer, she was stylist.

Joanne Kee
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How to make a zine

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