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Carols, fire, Melbourne and moving
Maria and I went to Carols at Candlelight at St Luke's Catholic Church in Buranda today... The whole thing was an outdoors affair with a good-old Aussie BBQ and some of the state's best classical musicians. All in all, a great couple of hours of Australian Christmas - on a picnic rug, surrounded by torches, candlelights and glow sticks.
There was a bit more action than we bargained for though: The torches turned out to be slightly less safe than assumed, so a bit of firefighting had to be carried out...
One of the torches started catching fire in places where it shouldn't. This resulted in oil leaking out of the container. Somebody moved the torch away from the crowd, onto solid surface... But along the way, oil dripped out and put some grass on fire!
Maria to the rescue! Armed with a water bottle, my little wife resolutely put out the budding grass fire! But things weren't going so swell with the torch...
By now, oil was running out of the cannister and down a gutter. Soon enough, the oil caught fire and things were looking a bit bleak! The bush hanging over the flames threatened to go up in flames...
Luckily, I found a fire extinguisher in the church, so pretty soon the little drama was all over!
Back to the carols...
It was a lovely little evening out! Quite a few people found their way to the mini-concert, the BBQ sizzled and the musicians played like they'd never played before! And it was a good chance to say "see ya" to our friend Anne Coles, who is moving to Melbourne this weekend!
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In other news, Maria and I are going to Melbourne to celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary! We're leaving on January 19, and staying until the evening of January 23.
We've booked a room with breakfast at the Radisson on Flagstaff hotel, a stone's throw from the Victoria Markets and just a few minutes' walk from the CBD.
Needless to say, we're both very muchly looking forward to going! We've never really left the state together before - aside from a few hours in Byron Bay, which is just across the state border to New South Wales.
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Maria and I will be moving this weekend! We were told the owners of the place we're in now wanted to take over the unit, so we had to find a new one!
Luckily, finding a new place to stay proved a reasonably quick affair!
After a few days of searching, we found a place in Taringa, just one kilometer from where we live now!
It's a two-bedroom unit, with a decent-size livingroom and a tiny little balcony for plant growing and newspaper reading.
We're relocating on Saturday and Sunday and will be handing back the keys to our old place on Wednesday January 11!
Call us if you want our new address! :o)
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Posted by Marius Berg Askildsen
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