Flooded
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 front and it was up to just below my breasts in the garage.
We did a mass move out/evacuation of the house yesterday afternoon/last night.
I’ve now moved in with Mum for the time whilst I find a new share house. We managed to get all my belongings out of the house with the help of some of Mums neigbours who came to help pack stuff up.
Thanks to other people further up Park Ave who gave us boxes, laundrary baskets and the like to pack things into as well as the guys off the street who helped move all the furniture out.
In 1974, the water was at the gutters of the house. Who knows where the water will hit in the next day.
I’ve really enjoyed the last two years I’ve spent living there with “the boys” and it was quite a sad way to move out all of a sudden like that.
progress
Whilst most blogs are talking about goals/plans/resolutions for 2011, I thought it would be much more to the point to see what progress I am doing on my list of 25 things to do before turning 26.
a nice filler photo
The list …
- Be finished with orthodontic work.
- Challenge myself to take more thoughtful photos.
- Ride my bike more.
- Get a will.
- Get better with my practice of one thing in means one thing out for my belongings.
- Spend more time creating.
- Print and frame more photos.
- Bake a rainbow cake.
- Do more study.
- Go to the Drive In – hopefully the Wonga one if it re-opens in the next few months.
- Go media-free for at least 48hrs.
- Make marshmallows and honeycomb.
- Be more regular on my blog (gee, that sounds like an All-Bran ad).
- Grow my investments.
- Reduce the stack of clothes in my mending/alterations stack.
- Make my own tea blend.
- Make strawberry jam.
- Get fresh flowers more often.
- Write and comment more.
- Grow professionally.
- Get my routines started again – planning meals for the week and exercise.
- Read some more classics.
- Finish my granny square blanket.
- Make mulberry crumble or pie from the mulberries in the freezer.
- Turn 26
Going very well, should be no more than a few months to go.
I’m more happy now with my photos than I’ve been a while but I still don’t think I’m taking my strongest photos
Bike goes in for a service on Friday
not yet
Did a big clean out of my wardrobe on the weekend, so getting there
Doing pretty well on this front
I’ve printed more but they are not framed
not yet
Well I’m still at uni and I got a 6/Distinction/83% for the last semester 🙂
not yet
mmmm
I’ve made other things ….
I’m doing better than I have been
Making sound progress on this front
Just about all gone
I’ve got ideas in my head
done 🙂
I like fresh flowers but I just wish they would last a whole lot longer
Not doing as much as I would like
It’s in the works
making progress
yeah
Just need to block it and it will be completed
The mulberries are still in the freezer
Well I’m getting closer every day …
… and that is where we are on Jan 5 at 21:48
Strawberry Jam, Dec 2010, Made by Helen
I made Strawberry Jam in December which I gave as part of my Christmas boxes. I finally got round to taking a photo of one of the jars! The felt topper changed between jars depending on what I had at hand but they were all tied up twine and finished with jingle bells.
Breakfast for 2011
Well I’ve been home in rain drowned Brisbane for a touch over 24hrs now and I have the mozzie bites to prove it.
I came home to a very impressive cocktail party that one of my housemate’s was hosting, the kitchen had been turned into a fully kitted out bar. The party was good and it was great to catch up with the assorted bunch of people who were there. I turned in to bed sometime round 3:30, I was so exhausted! The party of course kept on going and going till 9ish or so this morning. If I’m tired and need to sleep, I’ll go to sleep – doesn’t matter what is going on round me – perfect since my bedroom opens onto the kitchen and the deck. Which works pretty well in this house.
I had a lovely and quiet breakfast this morning. A cup of peach sencha tea, a vegemite and cheese toasted bagel and the most recent copy of Good.
Christmas is near
Well, I’m sitting at my Mum’s house as I type this as in a few hours we’ll be heading to the airport to go to NZ for 10 days to hang out with my Aunt and her family. It’s funny, at work people have been asking why I’m going to NZ for Christmas to which I reply I have family there and the response is always the same or similar “Helen, you have family everywhere” (in matter of fact not really, just Iceland, London, NZ and Tassie but it does seem like everywhere).
All my baking and creating has now come to an end for a year as I handed out presents and parcels to friends and co-workers over the last few days.
All the staff in my section received a little goodie bag, which consisted of 2 Christmas Tree sugar cookies, 1 Lebkuchen Man and 2 little chocolates.
The front.
The back.
My girls all received a double stack of decadent goodies. Which was filled with a jar of my Strawberry Jam (which reminds me I must take a photo of one of my jars – they looked so pretty), sugar cookies, vanilla rings, rum balls, sunshine/apricot balls, 3 types of nut brittle (hazelnut, peanut and almond), loftkökur and lebkuchen. That also reminds me, I’ll have to take a picture of of what the little bags inside the boxes look like -that will have to happen next year.
The boxes.
oh so pretty. They are all tied up with bakers twine from Bespoke Letterpress. To continue in my theme of using my Figgjo Flint Lotte collection to hold assorted bits and pieces, here is what I am using as a dispenser for my twine – a milk jug. 🙂 At work I have a butter dish holding my staple remover, paper clips, white-out etc, at home I have a soufflé dish that holds my jewellery tree, a jam container that holds teabags, a little serving skillet that holds a candle and coins etc etc.
I leave you with two pictures from the “Hard Crack Factory”
mmm brittle.