Last week I enrolled in an Open University Australia Business degree thru Griffith Uni in Qld. My first subject commences 1st December.

Last Friday Carrical and Servants hosted a Deloitte ‘Impact Day’ event. Rather than asking the volunteers to clean windows and pull up weeds we hosted a half day for them (for the second consecutive year) whereby they shared a lunch with the resos and then heard from me and several years in an educational session at HWBC. As with last year the day was a great success and we very clearly have some new supporters as a consequence of this event.

It took 12 days from the Narrative launch to a copy finding its way into the hands of former PM John Howard. The story behind this will be posted on FB and the website in the coming days.

Boxes of Narrative continue to disappear at a great rat of knots. The feedback to the publication has been overwhelmingly positive.

All the houses are full. The empty room night for the houses combined for year to date total 26.

Plans for the Carols @ Carrical event on the evening of Monday 22nd December are well advanced now. This resident inspired idea is aimed at raising funds for Hawthorn Community Chest.

There was a Residents House Meeting last week at Carrical which was a great success – the Hamer resos have their turn in the week ahead.

The burger joint Grill’d in Glenferrie Rd, Hawthorn has 3 charities it is supporting in November – their customers vote for the charity they would like to see $300 donated to. The ‘losing’ charities each receive $100. To date Servants is winning this event by a landslide!