now a thirtysomething from Brisbane
Yesterday and today I have moved into a gorgeous house in Auchenflower for the summer, the room is furnished with the most gorgeous 1920’s furniture with even more gorgeous 12ft ceilings. The kitchen has gas and it is just round the corner from the Auchenflower train station which is one zone closer to work on …
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Picture from here That’s our house (well I guess correctly my old house) on the left at round 9am this morning. 1 Park Ave, Auchenflower. The house is on the corner of Park Lane and Park Ave. When we left last night with the last load it was just lapping the second step at the …
What a whirlwind it’s been since 18:00 last night when the booths closed and the counting started … I spent the night glued to the ABC coverage,  #ausvotes on Twitter, the AEC Virtual Tally Room, etc etc and wishing I had more than my two computer monitors so I could keep up on all the changes. I …
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I along with oh perhaps half of Brisbane drove through the Clem7 tonight. Few things to note about the opening. The radio stations were reporting that all four entrances were open…. No only the northbound entrances opened at 22:00, the southbound entrance is not opening till roughly 00:00. They also closed the ICB south/west bound …
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Bringing the 365 photos up to date and a few links that I’ve collected. This is cracking me up – Angry Norwegians I adore the ability to JFGI or the more polite JGI, if I want to know something, it’s just a matter of tying in a few words and seeing what I get in …
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Helen is Helen Thura.Helen is also Helena Þura if you want to be Icelandic correct. Helen is a Brisbane girl through and through. Grew up on the Northside, moved to the “West Side” but got flooded out so went back to the safe Northside. Helen gets paid to be a bean counter and spends the …
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