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Sunday, February 17, 2008

The Rose Garden - Update No.3


This week's progress.
Like most projects, the outlining makes a big difference.
I'm still as pleased as I was when I first stated that it is my fave work ever!

posted by Felicity | 8:10 pm | 10 comments

Monday, February 11, 2008

Leaving Home



The Cadet Princess is leaving her life in Brisbane to live in Townsville, 1533km away.

She's off to James Cook University in Townsville, North Qld to study medicine, & reality has struck me that she will probably never come back to live anywhere nearby again in my life time.

While pleased for her, I'm heart-broken.

Every visit back to Brisbane will be a red-letter day rather than the quotidien. It won't be the same relationship & nowhere near as close as it has been.

How do parents cope under such circumstances?

To a Daughter Leaving Home
a poem by Linda Pastan

When I taught you
at eight to ride
a bicycle, loping along
beside you
as you wobbled away
on two round wheels,
my own mouth rounding
in surprise when you pulled
ahead down the curved
path of the park,
I kept waiting
for the thud
of your crash as I
sprinted to catch up,
while you grew
smaller, more breakable
with distance,
pumping, pumping
for your life, screaming
with laughter,
the hair flapping
behind you like a
handkerchief waving
goodbye.

from The Imperfect Paradise, 1988

posted by Felicity | 7:32 am | 1 comments

Sunday, February 10, 2008

The Rose Garden - Update No.2

Here is this week's progress photograph. The regularity of posts has diminished with the return to work after the Summer break. Seriously though, the stitching rate couldn't have stayed that high much longer. What with stitching and the rain, my bottom would soon have outgrown my comfy chair.

I hope your week has allowed you time to stitch, too.

Happiness & Laughter Always,

Bliss

posted by Felicity | 1:01 pm | 10 comments

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Frustration with Bigpond



I need a new ISP fast! Bigpond is a pain in the bum when it comes to the billing system!

Every month for at least the last 5 bills, I have been over-charged $10 for my internet plan. For some reason, my plan costs $69.95 but I get charged $79.95.

Every month, I ring up & get someone to do whatever it is that they have to do to change it back so that I get charged the correct amount.

Then, on top of the extra $10, I am now starting to be re-charged for the whole kit and kaboodle. So this month's bill has the extra $10 from this bill plus the extra $10 from last bill. Last month's bill had the extra bit taken off the bill before added to it. Hence, I'm being charged an extra $20 each month, not to mention that I have overdue fees when they feel like it.

This month is the last straw! I got charged the extra $10, the over-due $10 from last month's adjustment (which was supposedly wiped because it was over-charge in the first place) PLUS a $55.00 slug for a supposed change of address transfer!!!

As far as I can tell, I'm still living in the same house that I've been living in since August 2005.

I'm not happy, Jan! Bigpond has made a stuff-up somewhere along the line (pardon the pun) and the company assumes that I will be blond enough to keep wearing their mistake. I could spit!

Anyone who wants to suggest another plan by another ISP, I will listen carefully to the advice.

posted by Felicity | 5:48 pm | 1 comments

Sunday, February 03, 2008

The Rose Garden - Progress Pic No.1


The Rose Garden

I've been stitching for a long, long time but never have I enjoyed a project so much as this one. The funny thing is that I procrastinated its start because I didn't like the idea of the 'natural' colour of the fabric. However, all's well that ends well. The photograph doesn't do it justcice. The first week of stitching on The Rose Garden looks lovely!

I hope you, too, are enjoying your stitching progress as much as I am enjoying mine.

Happiness & laughter always,

Bliss

posted by Felicity | 8:00 pm | 6 comments

Weekend at the Gold Coast


My brother, his wife & their kids - they have great smiles, don't they?
(Just to give you an idea of how tall that 17 year old nephew is in the background, my brother is 6'3" tall!)



The view from our hotel balcony.
We stayed at the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the Gold Coast Highway. I recommend you stay there any time!

Paul flew to the Gold Coast instead of directly back to Brisbane after his latest trip for work so that we could attend the party for my brother's 50th, last night. Boy, we had fun! I got to see my brother & his family & four of my five sisters.

posted by Felicity | 5:31 pm | 0 comments

Friday, February 01, 2008

Gifts for family members


For Genevieve, my sister - finally, her Christmas 2007 gift finished!


For Danielle, my niece - a gift for her 20th birthday on Saturday

Loved by both recipients.

posted by Felicity | 3:57 pm | 5 comments

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