Its Tidy Tuesday and it's the gigantic "Moving Day"!

Biggest shout out to Jeff and Dean from Raleigh Removals at Raleigh NSW... these guys were awesome.  So awesome in fact, they packed my handbag in the front of the truck.  Lunch time came and I looked for my bag and realized it must have been packed so we unpacked the truck to find it and there it was. 

That was just one of those funny things that day that made arriving at our new house happen at night time in the freezing cold in the dark.  It was a lot of work that day, a huge drive at the end of the day and a cold arrival but the spirits were red hot in all of us. 

Excitement was the order of the entire day.  Phoenix and Sooty were transported safely to their new home.   Sooty went with Aunty Kay in her vehicle and Phoenix travelled with us in our vehicle. Once at Guyra we stopped to check on how things were going with Sooty.  Things were pretty difficult and so we inherited Sooty our black female cat into our car as well.  She who incidentally would not move from Aunty Kay's lap the entire previous part of the trip from Urunga. 

The cleaning of the house was all done as awesome as we could.  We had done a lot of preparation while waiting to leave that made that part easy.  Our neighbors on both sides were simply amazing with their help and their well wishes. 

Ronny mowed our lawn for us as it rained right up to our leaving which made it impossible to remedy ourselves and so that was a blessing indeed.  My friends all pitched in to help on last days.  Suzie taking my largest crows nest that was simply huge and Ian taking all of the others home to Kathy made that easier for us.  Easier for me to part with them to friends too.

 So we arrived at our new home and I slept in the tent again in the lounge room and Aunty Kay on the camp stretcher and Brice in the chair.  It is a wonder we didn't freeze right there and then (jokes).  We all arrived to our destination safely thank the mightiness of the stars above us.  

Aunty Kay was an absolute legend from start to finish with keeping us all on task and continuity of work for the entire day from 5am this morning.  I was touched to see Gail and Shelby and for Shelby to see the truck filling up so she knew I had moved house and not run away from her.  Gail gave me a lovely present with the cutest little notebook with tiny pen...  I loved this and I was sad to say farewell to our many years of fun together in Urunga.  Our Christmas's every year together since we moved down there from Bellingen.  Playground fun with Shelby and her first swim at the beach are the things that will tug most at my heart strings.

My own children are grown up now.  My youngest Montana-Star visited with her partner Anaan last evening for a few hours and I can barely put down here how much I will miss being only ten minutes away from them.  Life goes on and they will probably head out into the great wide world themselves at some stage like most of the young guys do,  like we did also.  

So ended this big huge gigantic day for Brice and myself as we left our home for the last few decades.  This is a huge change and we both needed this for us to move on from the sadness of the past and the loss of so much.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

Today is a special day... For Montana and Anaan.

She is the last one.  Jesse has lived with a couple of girls now and so has Matilda lived with a couple of guys and this is the first time for Montana and maybe it will be the only time.  Love can do that to a person.

Today Montana moved into her own place with her long time friend and boyfriend Anaan.  They moved into the little flats in North Bellingen.   I am so excited for them both.  I hope they still want the stuff we have here for them for when they did eventually get their own place.  Toasters and stuff.  I called it the Glory Box.

Anaan and  Montana

Congratulations on this special time and I am glad that you both are together.  I just love that part the best.  Moving in together is a scary time and and exciting time, and a time of very high tension for some.  I hope they are enjoying this time and I hope she took photographs for later on.

Images @ Eminpee Fotography

The Use of Homeless Spikes

Homeless Spikes! I had never heard of them and I was horrified at such a lack of humanity.  I could barely believe what I was reading and the attitude people have toward those who have fallen on hard times in life.

The image was widely shared on Twitter (Andrew Horton/Twitter

From the Telegraph

Homelessness charities said the use of metal studs to prevent rough sleepers is widespread and they have been installed on ledges and in doorways for more than a decade.

I am going to keep my eyes open for this happening here in Australia.  I would not put it past Abbott and his heartless cronies to bring in such a law.  Perhaps they have already and I don't know about it yet.  Its like they bring in new laws now faster than any of us can keep up with.   I tend to think that even the most law abiding person would break the law these days unwittingly, its just that legislated.

Security spikes protect a gated community in the East End of London. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Its hard to believe that the world can treat their fellow man in such a degrading humiliating way in front of their peers by their peers for what?  Being poor?

Sydney has many homeless people, I respected their dignity and didn't photograph them.

 

Images @ Eminpee Fotography