The Chambers

not much on the horizon for this weekend. the savings for the us holiday continues, so we won’t get up to anything too dramatic.

We’ll go and see Kazu. Kazu and his family arrive to stay with Kylie’s mum and dad this weekend. Kazu stayed with Kylie’s family when he came here from Japan on an exchange program when he was younger. They are here for a week or so, which I am sure Jackson will love as he will have another play friend in Kazu’s little girl. Whilst here they are going to go to tangalooma resort and off to a horse riding place.

We’re off to montezuma’s for dinner on saturday night.

There’s a couple of nice Charles Blackman’s on ebay at the moment. Both are from the big Nadine Amadio auction which was held recently. Apparently, Nadine Amadio, who is a close friend of Charles Blackman and his biographer moved to Cairns and wanted to sell up all the stuff she would not take to Cairns with her. It was a major sale, with over 100 pieces of Blackman’s work going under the hammer. Would have been a nice sale to go to. I have bought an autographed catologue page from that sale, which hangs in my office at TQ. The two pieces on ebay are nice works. One is an original work and the other is a unique looking litho which I have not seen before. Not sure how I will convince Kylie to buy either with our impending holiday – but I will give it a shot!

I have started to get together a group for the NFL game I will be going to in NY. So far Grady, Ian, Robert and myself are going. I’m hoping to get quite a few of the guys I’ve met over the years who live in the USA to come over to NYC and meet up for the game.

Workwise (for chris) lots has been happening lately. The digital team has been very busy with a whole stack of activities. queensland holidays has changed a lot in the past few weeks – including a change to the navigation on the site, which now includes a whole stack of travel tools, if you haven’t looked at the site in a while you should do so now. Court and the ATDW team are in the midst of reviewing all the activities of last year and looking ahead to the next subscription period, as well as continuing to seek out operators who we have not approached. The digital marketing team will be joined, on the 20th, by Fabian who will take up the role of the Web Projects Coordinator. Sally moves to Melbourne, but will still be with the team in her editor position and telecommute. Em is off to become a mummy, as of next Friday – good luck Em! and…. we’re going to start the second round of our auction activities this weekend, have a look at our campaign site to see the 4 nights for the price of three offers available and our “Ultimate Queensland’ auction site