Let's Get Stitched in Brisbane 2018; Part 2

On the Friday was the LGS bus trip to some of the local quilt shops. Like a lot of places in Australia, many of our beloved quilt shops have closed. In my area of Brisbane on the north side, this has indeed been the case. 
Our first stop was on the south side of town at Nikki Tervo's Brandy Gully Patchwork. Since the previous LGS Brisbane bus tour , Nikki has expanded her little shop to include a large class area.


Pretty soon there was a queue for the checkout...

My modest purchases...after all, I don't really need anything! Lol

And the generous Nikki included a free stitchery project in every bag at the checkout.

Our next stop was at Cleveland; at the always impressive Bayside Stitchcraft.

This is a big store!


Shez had fun with the stairlift...


Both counters soon had queues.

There was a lot of temptation at this store, but my purchase was even more modest than at the first store of the day...just some buttons for Holly's birthday bunting that I really should start working on soon.

Then it was time to move on to our lunch stop...Southbank. I lunched at a Greek restaurant with a small group of my fellow bustrippers...



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The food didn't disappoint! Yum!!

After our delicious lunch we walked around that part of Southbank...the girls from out of town were interested in a shop called 'Dougnut Time'.

Two of the girls bought a doughnut each...but not yours truly 😬. The doughnuts are huge but then again if they are charging an average $6.95 each, one might expect them to be on the large side.

Posing for a photo before we headed back to where we were to meet the bus.

One more shop on our tour, but I will write about it in the next post.

A few outings late last year...

Last year, despite being lovers of live theatre, DH and I didn't book us in for many shows. The previous 2 years with the odd 'medical drama' meant that a number of our tickets had to be given away as events conspired to stop us from attending performances.

But DH had booked some tickets for the show Matilda. The performance we were booked in for was a matinee in the second week of December. Yep! You guessed it, DH was in hospital. He insisted that I still go and very reluctantly and feeling mighty guilty about it, DsD3 and I went to the show. Loved it! 

There are 4 actresses who play Matilda, and the one who took her turn for this matinee, was exceptional.

Right at the year's end DH had got a special price on tickets for the Fawlty Towers Live show, so off we BOTH set to the Playhouse on New Year's Eve.
We usually drive to Alderley Station and catch the train from there...it's a building site at the moment but should be great when the renovations are finished. There will be a lift then! ( although I don't mind the walk up and over the railway bridge/steps, except for those days way back when my children were little and I had to get them and the stroller up the stairs and then down the stairs!)

 

We had been warned by an email from QPAC ( Queensland Performing Arts Centre) that extra security would be enforced due to NYE. This is because the complex is adjacent to Southbank Parklands where there would be big crowds for the evening celebrations. 

Bags were checked for alcohol...and weapons too maybe??? 

I took a few photos of the part of Southbank near the theatres. 

And who could resist a photo with the cutout Basil Fawlty? 😆

The show featured a number of vignettes from the tv shows and just like the tv shows, we laughed out loud and at times we sniggered and I even cringed at times too.

The cast was very good and I particularly liked the performance from the actress who played Mrs Richards. ( the hard of hearing lady who complained about the view from her room and also claimed to have had money stolen.)
She looked and sounded familiar and during interval I checked her out on my phone. The actress was Deborah Kennedy, an Aussie actor of some note, but is perhaps most known for a Yellow pages advert she was in, some years ago. Her saying, 'Not happy Jan!' has actually entered the nation's lexicon for using when someone's behaviour has disappointed you. We Aussies are a funny lot, aren't we??? A You Tube of the ad is here...

It was an enjoyable afternoon.