Hiya everyone!
Since December 2017, we have held annual Month of Celebrations here in the Community Center, throughout the month of December.
For those of you who haven't heard of this before, here is a quick recap:
For each day of December, a different community member posts a new topic about something positive! This can be a nice story, personal experience, tips... whatever gives you a smile! Each time, we have shared some great conversations and laughs.
Last year we had some wonderful topics including @Nutth0 with A host who enriches passion by hosting an Experience and a festive look from @Helen427 with Christmas - Reflections, Reminiscing, Remembrance . So the range of things huge. You can take a look at last years' here, to get the creative juices flowing.
We have had a few of you CC'ers ask if we are running it again this year and we have decided: YES! However, as you can imagine, we are time poor so we need YOUR HELP!
If you would like to get involved, please reply to this thread letting us know which day(s) you would like to post your topic.
I hope you are all enjoy this dose of positivity whether you get involved or just enjoy reading 😄
A huge thank to every member of this CC - we couldn't do it without you!
Tasmania is something else! From Cradle Mountain to Port Arthur, to Hobart and MONA, gee Steph, it is a must do experience .
Father Daughter trip to Tassie.....god it's great to be alive!
I have had guests from Europe and the US say in their initial message...."How far are you from Mona"! .....and at first, I had absolutely no idea what Mona was! MONA stands for the 'Museum of Old and New Art'.....and Steph it is breathtaking. Some of the exhibits take you a couple of minutes to actually get your head around what you are seeing. Every exhibit is totally unique and the whole complex is fluid, it is changing all the time. There is a Porsche 911 on steroids! There is a wall of water that spells letters, there is a room of nothing but molds of vaginas', there is a room that looks like mirrors but.........nah, I will leave that one, you can't describe it, you have to smell it and see it and concentrate really hard to understand just what it is. Visitors are allowed in one at a time and are told by a guide at the door to keep their hands in their pockets and not touch anything, just let the experience overtake you! Here it is taken from above with someone trying to work out what they are actually looking at!
Crazy rooms of sculptured glass!
The galleries run over 4 different levels ......
https://youtu.be/eCkoWcDoBK8?t=469
We had just the greatest time. We walking into a pub in Hobart called the 'Welcome Stranger' one night .......had a drink or two, and in the games room was this 8 lane massive slot car racing track! I haven't seen anything like it for 20 years. Sarah and I used to go slot car racing when she was a kid and wow, did we have a great hour or two reliving the past!
Port Arthur was stunning, there is massive restoration work going on their to try and return it to it's past, when it was a convict settlement, it is sad, but beautiful.......
There is a commemoration pool and plaque where the 'Arrow Cafe' once stood where the greatest gun related massacre in Australian history took place in 1996. You can't help but just stand there, look into the water and reflect on the un-imaginable horrors that must have taken place on that day in 1996!
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There is a town on the way to Pt Arthur called 'Doo Town'! Yeah, l am not kidding!
Every house in 'Doo Town' has a name and every house name has the word Doo in it....all 250 of them.......
You just have no idea what is around every corner in Tasmania. I can't wait to go back there again, take Ade and a couple of friends with us.
Cheers......Rob
