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Travel – Being a tourist in our own backyard.

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Travel – Being a tourist in our own backyard.

Travel is one of the things we love to do but sometimes like everyone we forget to look close to home. For many years we have seen highlights of the Jumpers and Jazz Festival in Warwick, a town about 90 mins travel from our place. Every year we say ” we should go to that”. Well this year we did and had a fantastic time.

What is Jumpers and Jazz?  The festival was initially created as a positive community response to a major CBD streetscaping project of Warwick by the local council. It was a fun way to bring in tourists and increase particapation in the arts. Now lots of groups create some beautiful trees in the main street.

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As well as all the amazing trees, they have lots of Jazz performers up and down the street. On the weekends there are a couple of stages set up with performances most of the day.

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Everyone can join in the fun with a full programme including many classes where you can try all sorts of craft. One of the many activities available was the heritage train rides. Ron has always loved trains especially the old ones so this was a must do on our travel list. The only one with tickets available was on the Friday night. We started with drinks and nibbles on the station platform and watched as the train arrived at the station. Once on board we settled in for a ride to Hendon and back, about 90 mins. While enjoying the ride we were entertained by a couple of singers playing some great music. We also had one of the volunteers telling us all the highlights and about the trains history.

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Ron and Sue

Healing Garden – A visit to The Carnival of Flowers 

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Healing Garden – A visit to The Carnival of Flowers  

Healing Garden – Last Thursday Sue and I took some time out to smell the roses, so to speak. In this case literally! We stopped what we were doing and had planned for the day to journey up to Toowoomba for The Carnival of Flowers where we spent a most enjoyable day in the parks and gardens.

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This was also the hottest recorded September spring day for Queensland, so it was a great day to be in Toowoomba’s elevated atmosphere. Tribute must be paid to the gardeners as their work was very well presented considering the wilting heat. Colour and fragrance were abundant as all about you could see the care and attention that had gone into creating a magnificent show.

Walking around the parks and gardens we could feel ourselves becoming more serene and centred as nature did her revitalizing and nurturing work. In fact spending time in gardens is one of the best healing and re-energizing exercises we can do for ourselves and it’s free!

I am sure my crystals made the most of the day as well. When I removed them from my pockets and took of my ‘medicine pouch’ at the end of the day, they felt enlivened and brighter, as though they too had cleansed and refreshed their energy from the abundance available in the gardens.

Nature and mans work come together in gardens to offer a kaleidoscope of beauty, colour, smell and touch that can invigorate and lift our senses providing a free healing equal to the best any professional healer may have to offer for a fee.

Never put off taking pleasure in ‘life rewards’ like visits to parks and gardens. I must admit that before setting off on our day’s escapade, I had a pang of guilt as I thought about our business responsibilities and the tasks that needed to be done, but I am so glad I chose to ignore it.

Now its a couple of days later and nothing seems to be amiss, and as a bonus, while I was sitting in the rose garden a simple and easy to use solution to problem that had been perplexing me popped into my head. This has since been employed to great satisfaction.

Ron and Sue

A Simple Haircut – A true story of business relationship

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A simple haircut – A true story of business relationship

A simple haircut – is it really? Perhaps the value of “relationship” marketing can be seen in this story. Let’s face it we all put a lot of faith and confidence in our hairdresser. Primarily to make sure they keep us looking at our best. Also we don’t want them to muck up our appearance by slapdash craftsmanship.  And we definitely don’t want them to ignore or not listen to our requests. For a small amount of time our continued or chosen appearance is in their hands.

About a year back I changed my hairdresser because I was unhappy with what was happening. She was cutting my hair far too short for my liking. It often looked stepped because my hairdresser had taken to using numbered combs on the hair clippers. While this was quicker and easier for her, it was not so good for me. Although she was friendly, I got the impression I was just another customer. Really nothing more than another turn of dollars into the till, just another daily number in her hairdressing business. Just another simple haircut. (more…)

Ron and Sue