Check-In Post February 11th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: Whereabouts in the world are you located?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[medievalrosalie]

I'm in a little suburb called Stones Corner in Queensland, Australia! We are enjoying summer right now, so it's really hot! I'm delighted to see people from all over here!Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Yay! I know of at least one other Aussie member!

[m_findlow]

*waves* ha ha, yes that's me, here in Melbourne. :)

[badly_knitted]

Other side of the world from me *waves back*

[medievalrosalie]

Oh Man! Lockdown weekend for you AGAIN! I saw the shops stripped bare again. Hopefully you guys will be out and about again. Our Queensland hospitals aren't so bad, but we still have to PPE up for every single patient who has crossed the border or has friends who has or has a temp and that's... pretty much everyone. I used to live down in Melbourne and I miss it so much. Brisbane is ok but Melbourne is great. Have you seen the Jimmy Rees "Meanwhile in Australia" Covid clips? Hilarious!

[m_findlow]

Haha, yes, lockdown again but hopefully not for too long. Hard to believe we were out at lunch just a few days ago and now back to working from home (not that I mind it, I get heaps done). I'm very much a homebody, but I do miss the odd day of heading into the city to wander around all the little arcades and laneways with all their odd little shops and cafes. I like taking photos of everything so people must think I'm a tourist!
Whereabouts in Melbourne were you living? I rarely ever meet anyone born and bred in Qld, they're all Melbourne expats headed north for some warmer weather!

[medievalrosalie]

I was born and bred in Melbourne too, sorry! My grandparents retired in Queensland and we bounced a little up and back to see them and stay a bit. I lived at East Ivanhoe behind the Boulevarde (because who could afford to live there in the 1980's). Back then it was leafy footpaths and great shops. I have family at Ferny Creek and out in the Dandenongs.

[m_findlow]

Haha, well there you go, just proves the theory! I'm in Nunawading so not too far away. My family ran a TAB in Ivanhoe at the top of Upper Heidelberg Rd for years so I spent most of my childhood weekends commuting there and back with the folks. :)

[medievalrosalie]

Wow! I know where that is. Nunawading. Pretty sure I had a cousin there. Small world!

[smallhobbit]

*Waves* lovely to see someone from the other side of the world!

[m_findlow]

Isn't it funny how it never feels like the other side of the world. We're all doing the same kinds of things. I love it when people post photos of their everyday comings and goings because it's like "yeah, just like here too!" though I adore spotting the little cultural nuances.

[smallhobbit]

Yes, I have several friends in Australia and enjoy sharing all the same activities. It's the seasons and the school year which I notice.

[badly_knitted]

I love the way we can talk to people and shares things over thousands of miles with hardly any time lag, as long as we're both awake at the time. The internet has made the whole world one neighbourhood. =D

[medievalrosalie]

Exactly! Same same but slightly different!
I'm enjoying low loads of people in lockdown are sad but my re-enactor friends the world all over are like ... MORE TIME FOR CRAFTS!!!!!

[m_findlow]

I had to look you up because I wasn't familiar with the suburb but now I know you're just in the south of Brisbane.

[medievalrosalie]

It's fairly close to the city but a little pocket of funky op shops, parks and cafes. I'm renting, but I love it there. I'm right across from a park with huge trees so it's a nice outlook!

[m_findlow]

I love those kinds of suburbs with their slightly hipster feel.