Leanne here. Thanks for the plant donations family and friends! My mum and dad dropped off a tub of dietes. Annie dropped off some pelargoniums and hardy pollinator plants she had nurtured from cuttings.

This week I pulled out my paint brush and some fence paint I had hanging around from my renovation at home - and gave the back fence a lick of paint. It was blue. Now it is grey to match the new pod and pergola.

And on Friday we ordered some soil and our gardeners led by Clare and Corrado started filling up the new garden beds around the pod and out the front.

And we planted.

The rush was on with birthday party bookings now coming in to make our space civilised!

So, nearly there outside. We’re also going to add in some small trees and some ground covers in the next week or so.

And … in related news Kalimna and I cleaned the office (for the second and what we hope is the final time in this renovation journey) - so we can sit at our desks … and actually find things. Hooray! 🎉

See you soon at our nearly organised neighbourhood house!

At ACC we love food and art. So we’re starting up a new lunch experience we’re calling crunch - short for ‘creative lunch’.

Come along Thursdays from 12.30pm starting on 16 May. $15 a week.

We’ll feed you hearty soups etc. for these autumnal days and nourish your creative soul with a different art experience each week.

Take a break from the humdrum of everyday and immerse yourself in an hour of drawing, painting and creating … before getting back to your afternoon of work or organising or school pickups …

Crunch is yum, creative and fun and suitable for anyone with an artistic bent. Kids welcome.

Book in here.

Crunch - creative lunch

$15.00

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What is the key to friendship?

Add your thoughts to a key tag on our fence this week.

We love quirky community art experiences … and creating opportunities for casual community interactions.

We are so grateful for the support of the local community.

And we love donations … but we do ask for you to check in with us that we need them first - just give us a call 📞 or drop them off when we are on site for a chat, 9am-3.30pm Monday to Friday.

At the moment we’re very keen on:

• stocking our mini op shop - so if you have a few quality household items looking for a new home, think of us!

• plants - we’ve got some new beds to plant out so if you are refreshing your garden for autumn think of us! We like usable things … herbs, small fruit trees, lovely cut flowers, hardy low maintenance things that will survive a lack of love over summer etc.

• 8ply+ wool for our knitters.

Looking forward to seeing you soon. And thanks.

There are a lot of grandparents and carers in the neighbourhood looking after precious bundles of joy - and we’re here to help them connect up with each other and have a great time with their darlings.

We’re now offering a structured playgroup on Mondays from 10.30am. Open to everyone, but ideal for grandparents and carers who would like us to facilitate stories, music and craft activities, along with the chance for free play.

$10 per week, starting Monday 13 May. BYO snacks! Book in here.

Grandparents and Carers Playgroup - Membership

$10.00

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