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Showing posts with label Albany Creek Library. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Albany Creek Library. Show all posts

Saturday, March 1, 2014

Some signs I've seen...


 Firstly a couple of signs that caught my interest in New Zealand last year...
The first one was truly amazing for someone who comes from a country where you are not supposed to take shopping trolleys out of the supermarket carpark. Of course people do and we see trolleys abandoned around the streets waiting to be collected. I guess you could say that this NZ supermarket takes a proactive stance and good on them!


 Since coming home I've seen that we have these here in good old Brisbane...but such a concept was new to me last May! lol

Talking of dogs...look at the signs at the front of the Albany Creek Library...


 And a 'little dog height' water bowl...

And talking of libraries...last year in the BCC Chermside Library car park these designated spaces were provided right next to the ramp and near the front steps...and apparently 'senior' in this case is defined as over 55!

Next is an old photo taken 2 years ago. This is the sign on the back of the door of a public loo in Warwick (Qld not UK). The local council is obviously concerned with a person's modesty and dignity...love it!


And now another 2 older photos; these signs annoy me .
Outside the local post office...I can accept that AP vehicles can park there because they are excepted or are an exception to the rule.

The next sign was in a local department store. Friends whom I showed the photo to were quick to point out that 'Blaq' is a brand name...but I wasn't concerned with that...so I then asked them about the word 'buisness'...they hadn't seen that. I wonder if every Myer store in Australia had the same sign?


The last sign photo is not one of my photos but is one that was circulated on Facebook a few years ago...


Over my almost 40 years in the classroom, I saw children making the same mistake as the sign maker did in this poster...cringe...hope this wasn't made by one of my former students. Your eyes are drawn to the 'you save' part so maybe many didn't notice the mistake in the subtraction. :-/ 

Friday, December 20, 2013

Albany Creek...

Last Wednesday the Knit and Natter group at the Albany Creek library had our last meet up for 2013.





 So that meant some special treats for morning tea...here are just 2 of the items we had on the table...

Fruit cake filled with lots of nuts...

Shortbread in the shape of Christmas trees...


And of course a Knit and Natter also meant more lovely items being brought in for K4BN...


crocheted blankets from Margaret...


 Knitted toys from Debbie...





I mentioned to the other ladies, the email from Karen (the founder and boss of K4BN) that I had read that morning. Apparently a community group had contacted Karen asking if K4BN could help 2 families who were in quite dire straits. No one else could recall such an email on the forum so now that I'm the proud owner of a 'dongle', thus having internet access when I'm out and about, I used my phone to check my emails...but the email wasn't here! I then checked Facebook and there was the message on the K4BN page...and that's why my friends had not seen it! So we read it out and everyone discussed how they could help. One lady, Noeline offered to donate a dolls' house and I offered to collect it from her place...which I did.
One photo before the house is put into the boot (trunk).


We put all the dolls' house furniture in this bag...


And I also got some plant cutting from Noeline's garden...how Maria-like! lol


The dollhouse and furniture, along with quite a few other items that have been collected will be given to a needy family early next week.