Another Month Gone

Where does the time go?

Well this month has seen a high school reunion. 20 years ago I finished high school. It does not seem that long, sure sign that I am surely aging. It was good catching up with old friends and faces, but I can emphatically say, NEVER NEVER AGAIN would I want to do high school. I do not envy the kids.

Came home from hair cuts yesterday afternoon, walked in to the house, and OMG....the smell. Gag. The cat got shut into the house..the kids and I turned the kitchen area upside down, pulled out furniture, lifted, looked. searched, wandered the house, narrowed the aroma down......

Needless to say the bin will be getting a gift and DH will be getting new shoes.

A friend of mine is due to have a baby around the same time as we go away, so I have made her two quilts, one for the cot and one for the pram. Unfortunately I will not get to see the baby and Mum at the time of birth, so will have to wait until the September hols. Most rude of her to have

the baby due when we are going away.

Phantom, fires and caring strangers

My husband and I , yesterday, saw at the Burswood theatre, Phantom Of The Opera, with Anthony Warlow. The production, as can be expected was absolutley brilliant, I was covered in goose bumps from the outset. No other word than MAGNIFICENT.

At the end of the show the cast took their bows, much cheering and clapping and whistling....with one hand gesture Mr Warlow quietened a whole theatre. "As a company we are devestated at the horror that those in the Eastern States are suffering. We would like, with your help, to send some financial aid". This drew an even larger round of applause.

On leaving the theatre cast members were in among the crowd with bags for donations. I had no notes, only loose change, for which I am sorry. but in the one bag that I put my coins in, there was hundreds of dollars, easily, and there where several bags "walking" around.

My heart goes out to all of our Eastern State counterparts and I pray that they and their families are safe. There are not a lot of words that I can say to even help you, but please know that here in Perth strangers are thinking of you and we are trying to help.