Friday: I spoke as a guest at the latest Boroondara Cares meeting – mainly talking about the Narrative journey. Boroondara Cares is a very interesting beast at the current stage of proceedings – quite how big/significant it becomes is anyone’s guess right now. In 2 weeks time they will officially take over Foundation Boroondara to create one bigger, presumably better charity for the good of Boroondara. Quite where this leaves Hawthorn Community Chest remains to be seen.

On Friday I dropped off copies of Narrative with the 7 student authors – their collective response was quite marvelous – including literally jumping up and down with excitement!

Friday also saw me tough base with the chap from the Tenants Union who has been representing one of our Hamer resos. I was relieved to hear the ‘issue’ being leveled against us. There is not too much to be concerned about – but it might require a trip to VCAT to explain ourselves.

The Halls are away this weekend taking a well-deserved short break. One of their residents, a particularly troubled gentleman, vacated on Saturday morning. The good news is that one of our former favorite resos, John Whelan, a reso w previously housed for 6 years at Carrical, is returning ‘home’ and will move into Romana next week.

Ticket sales for the launch are currently sitting at 110. Connie and Cheryl and I had a planning meeting for the launch this afternoon – it is going to be terrific!

The week ahead is BIG – but it should be quite a lot of fun too.