The 12 Days of Christmas? The movie 12 Monkeys perhaps? 12 Midday, the first morning of the Trent Bridge Test and Australia are already all out?

Noooooooooo!!!! 12  days since my last post to Heartbeat. A few things have happened in that time – we have had a successful AGM; the Reflections theatre season was a far bigger success than I had anticipated; we continue to ‘enjoy’ fun and games with the Carrical reso we are hoping to have removed thru VCAT;  a couple od resos have moved out of the houses at the shortest of short notice; one of longest standing and most respected resos, Big Al, he of the front cover of Anthology fame, has become very unwell and is currently in the psych ward at St V’s (please pray for him); we have received a couple of significant financial gifts in the past few days – significant in terms of who they were from rather than the $ value; I have caught up in the last week with a couple of folks from the LV WCLP visit to Servants in late July and have my eyes opened to a couple of issues – in a good way; the LV Folio group had dinner at Romana on Tuesday night, followed by a visit to see the final night of Reflections, followed by hearing me speak at HWBC – a cracking evening seemed to be had by all; I spoke at the Rotaract Club of Swinburne Uni last week and feel quietly excited by what SCH/Swinburne possibilities might exist moving into the future; Paul from Romana was interviewed and photographed in front of the new greenhouses at Romana by the Progress Leader – for next week’s front cover; Warren brought my laptop back from the brink of death and it now has, hopefully, many more months of faithful service ahead; some folks from Rotary Club of Hawthorn came down to Hamer this morning to join me and Martin in a general Spring Clean type of morning. Doubtless I have missed a few occurrences  along the way!

The week ahead looks good too. Committee meeting, VCAT, the first LV visit to Hamer and the first Community Dinner to be held at Hamer too. Exciting times!!