Annie's Blog

Come and have a look around Toowong...an inner suburb of Brisbane the lovely church on the corner with great reflections in the building next door... there is a mix between the old and the new... even jacarandas, and poincianas down the main street... a very old hotel.... a traffic box, been painted by someone advertising the battle against depression... cafes on the corner... handy on the train line to the city... and on the banks of the lovely Brisbane River with views to the city (from the building I was in)...those funny white sail type things right in the middle of the photo is a new bridge that has just been built.... and outlook to the nearby Mt Cootha. life in the sub tropics... For more vews from contributors around the world, please click on the MY WORLD icon in the sidebar over there STOP PRESS...It is RAINING in South East Queensland tonight. This is the first rain we have had for four months. It has been so dry dry dry...with very stringent water restrictions....only water...

On my visit to Toowong, I had other business to conduct there after I had been to the dentist on the way home, and I noticed this NEW building over the road...and a wonderful reflection in it of the church next door. I am thinking of Joni and the homeless when I look at this church, as for years and years...at least twenty I think, there was a gentleman who preferred to live on the street outside this church, in full view of all the passing traffic on it's way to work in the city or at the university every morning. He was surrounded by all his possessions in plastic bags, and even though many people tried to help him, he never wanted to be anywhere else. Until a year or so ago, when the council announced that they had found another park for him to sleep in...hopefully it may have included shelter for extremely hot or cold or wet days! Of course they never said where it was! I think it was getting dangerous for him to stay where he was and he may have encountered some not very nice...