When the Cheshire emerges...

I had a bit of an Antiques Roadshow (English version) moment on the weekend, attending my first-ever antiques and collectables fair.

Dubbo's fair is predominantly hosted by Rotaract, which I've been a part of since the start of the year, so we were there doing our bit by selling entry and raffle tickets. It's Rotaract's biggest annual fundraiser so I was sure to do what I could on my one day off. Rugs were needed underneath the tables for the constant breeze coming in but everyone was in good spirits.

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I'd decided to get an early interview done to have for the week at work so while waiting for our weekend photographer to rock up after my Rotaract duties were done, I went in to have a look.

I had $35 in my wallet and I spent all of it.

But it was on a few things! Two lovely floral cake plates for $10 each which will go nice with some white coffee cups I bought from the auction at my soccer club's trivia night, a pair of love heart mosaic earrings for $10 and a necklace with a mother of pearl pendant for $5.

Both jewellery pieces were from the same stall, a company from the Gold Coast. He claimed most items were 50 years or older - while I don't know if I believe that for the earrings, I do for the necklace. It makes me think of faraway places with the palm trees, I love it.

Have you ever found any antique bargains?

How stoked am I?! For the first time in... probably a year to be quite honest, I will be up to date with the latest film news, interviews and reviews from the wonderful and witty team at Empire after I renewed my subscription. This has been a long time coming (like many other things in my life, *sigh*).

I'm just as excited that it got here when it was meant to and not late like most of my other letters. Problems with getting the post were seemingly rectified until I got rubberbanded deliveries conspicously before 7am last week... but perhaps I'm good now. Either way I'm going to promise myself NOT to fall 8-9 months behind like I did before going to Europe. But I have much less to do here than in Adelaide so with any luck I won't have to try too hard.

Speaking of extra-curricular activities, here's one that's exciting me to no end. There's a FILM SOCIETY here. In Dubbo. With 300+ members. Their AGM is next week and I've initiated contact about becoming a member... truthfully, I think I would be great one step higher as a part of their committee, but I'm worried I've just missed out on applications ahead of the meeting. What a total fail that would be - you would think my experience would be a total asset for them. Just sayin'.

I'm also attending a Rotaract dinner/meeting tomorrow night. Rotaract? I'd never heard of it either, but it's a Rotary group for 18-30somethings. Figured there's no harm in checking out what they do... look at me attempting to assimilate in the community!