Labour Day Weekend part 3

Labour Day Weekend......Part 2

Having a spot of trouble with the ipad uploading photos......

Just a few more lovlies

Labour Day weekend

Well.....I love to start with Well!,,,    Friday night started off pretty quiet. All Cool!  We had Fish and Chips and Scallops for dinner.  Relaxed and watched American Beauty, then Dirty Harry. Slept well, then up early to Meet Gary and Sue for a reconnaissance drive for an outing for the BMC / Leyland Club. Sue had booked us all into Rose City Motel at Benalla. I had stayed there, I always say 100 years ago as we took my Mum and Dad to my sisters engagement party in Wangaratta. I was about 17 and was so in love with my red patent leather shoes. The first pair of red shoes. The Red shoes Mum bought me for my first hairdressing interview. My Mum. Such a quiet Lady. Red was her favourite colour. She even had the ceiling painted red in the kitchen, with of course the red and white, with a touch of gray Laminex table and chairs. All very brave as it was not a colour that Italians would let their daughters wear. I could never imagine the start of the red shoes and stories read later...Got off the track there.
We arrived at Benalla after a short stop at Swanpool. Decided on lunch at the Bakery. Went to the motel for a short rest, then off to the pub for dinner.  We then headed back to Swanpool to the Cinema. A 1950's style CINEMA showing the best classic films from silents to recent releases.

A fantastic theatre. We saw Paper Planes.  Then Intermission  and St. Vincent. I enjoyed them both. Some good lessons in both of them.  Very inexpensive night out. We intend going back again with the club on a club run.
Had a lovely sleep, got up early for the next part of the weekend.
Sunday.    Off to Phillip Island for CLASSIC Festival of Motorsport.

Some of the lovelies.......

DAY OUT WITH A FRIEND

 

I was very fortunate to be taken to Village Gold Class at Westfield to see THE 100 FOOT JOURNEY.  Spoilt rotten to be precise. Possibly a "girlie" movie. But. Having said that more like a feel good movie. Loved the food passion and how a recognisable gift and talent could be recognised by family and out of disaster, a vision and openness  became true. The food, the colour, the scenery......yep, the lot

Probably touched on one of our dreams.

And the company of Alicia, her generosity, the lovely food and drinks.....pretty special

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS

Watched Running With Scissors for the third time.

I had read the books quite awhile ago.

Back to the DVD

Based on the personal memoirs of Augusten Burroughs. 

RUNNING WITH SCISSORS is a wickedly funny, 

brave and moving tale of surviving a most unusual childhood.

Augusten's mother is an unpublished and unstable poet whose marriage to his dad is in ruins.

Soon, she is seeing a very eccentric therapist named Dr Finch, while Augusten is left in the care of Finch's wacky family including his tightly wound daughter,Hope. youngest daughter Natalie and his long- suffering wife Agnes. Constantly recording the event of his life in his journal as a way to cope.

Augusten finds himself avoiding school, learning about love from an older man, and making big decisions at the tender age of just fifteen.

The first book I read, RUNNING WITH SCISSORS, I was at a very difficult time of my life.

I had suffered a heart attack. I had lost my business. I had to learn to hold a conversation again.I had lost a lot of my hair. I had lost myself.

I had always dressed different. I didn't know how to dress myself.

I was bankrupt. My husband was dying of cancer. I was in the process of reinventing myself.

BUT

His writing was so hysterically funny. How could anyone possibly endure this.

Made me look like chicken shit. 

Oh boy, if he could do it at this tender age,

I'm a big girl, I can do it too.

How could I possibly have a sense of humour with all that was happening in my life.

But, oh my goodness, every time I turned the page I would be cracking up laughing.

I did reinvent myself, and am now in the process of doing it again.

Must check out to see if he has any more books.

Hats off to you Augusten!

coco luscious may: THE NICHOLAS BUILDING

coco luscious may: THE NICHOLAS BUILDING: L'uccello..........          A magnificent little find housed in the Nicholas building in  Swanston Street Melbourne. I love this li...

THE NICHOLAS BUILDING

L'uccello..........
         A magnificent little find housed in the Nicholas building in  Swanston Street Melbourne.
I love this little shop, as well as the many others in this building. I was looking for a few extras for my latest project, and remembered buying thread some time back. So much to see here. Well worth a look.......

 A snippet of some of the other shops.......

Some of the threads I picked up here for my " Silver Birch" rather large project.......I have made a good start, and after years of thinking it is finally happening....

Now, a little bit on the Nicholas Building. 
        The Nicholas Building in Swanston Street Melbourne was home to businesses associated with the Flinders Lane garment trade, commercial artists, medical practitioners and architects, in the city of Melbourne. The building was completed in 1926 and the Architecture style was influenced by the " Chicago Style" of architecture.

........a sort of bit of a connection to this building. The Nicholas family also owned a lovely property in Lilydale. The property was owned at that stage by people by the name of Davies.....My parents worked and lived on the property and today the house is still standing....just a little bit of useless information that my children or grandchildren might be interested in one day. 
My mother used to let me have a day off school once a month and we would go into the city for her to pay an insurance in Collins Street. I loved strutting along Collins Street with her, and loved the National Mutual building. Another smell I remember. I would sometimes have my hair cut at Jill Webb, I think in the Nicholas Building. Mum also went to a chiropodist in this building.
Only just recently do they no longer have the lift lady.....always informative!