Month: March 2008

NEWS FLASH: Thelma and Louise freeze at Mt Hotham
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Louise (Jennie) and I decided to make the most of starting our Elindil’s Secret film pick up shoots again this weekend. Our first shoot was located at Mt Hotham so we decided to make a weekend of it and stayed in Bright with Colin and Andy instead of going up and back in the same day with the rest of the crew.
We spent our spare time suffering in Bright’s very pleasant eateries, sipping red wine. Sunday morning we looked at the shops in Bright and Louise (Jen) and I (Thelma) purchased some lovely bits and pieces from a gorgeous shop. We are hoping to sneak back there some day. More filming perhaps??
img_1135.jpg Andy & Colin are no longer allowed to return to Bright after shaming us in the supermarket. Jen required CONDOMS to put fake blood in for the scene on Saturday. She sent the boys to the supermarket to buy them AND a roll of paper towel. Andy announced LOUDLY, as he walked into the shop, that he needed ‘ultra thin condoms which explode on impact’. Colin very quickly found an aisle to run to so he could preserve his dignity while Andy very loudly caused quite a stir in the shop. He tried to explain that they needed it for their make-up kit but that didn’t help at all. To top it off, Luke decided they didn’t need to use one after all. At least they were safe.
img_1147.jpgThe filming started Saturday at about midday, by the time the crew arrived and got into their costumes and make-up. The weather in Bright was ‘bright’, so we figured it would be quite pleasant up the mountain. WRONG! It was bitterly cold with an ambient temperature of one degree and a wind chill factor that made it even more chilly.
Some of the filming highlights:
  • Luke asking a male hitch hiker if he was going ‘all the way’
  • An actor sliding down the hill when he was meant to be dead
  • The lovely warm soup and hot dogs in the little dark shed
  • The fake blood which had a mind of its own
  • Getting the fake blood out of the shirt which had to be used again (YAY!!)
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Spending the weekend in style, certainly helped to make the weekend fun. Thanks Jen and Andy. Thelma and Louise rock again!

Get another perspective from Louise (Jennie) on this link: Maxfactormama

    Egypt dvd finished
    egypt-dvd-cover.jpgAt last the editing on my DVD of our Egypt tour is finished!
    Blake designed a cover for the DVD today which just finishes it off nicely (see pic).
    The DVD has still photos, music and voiceovers so it was quite a job to put it together. It is still an amateur result, but I am pretty happy with it. It definitely made buying a Mac worthwhile lol.
    Now all I have to do is wait for the re-union to show it to our tour group friends.
    We might have another DVD viewing night….. just for friends and family. Tickets are cheap and the seats are comfy (if you get there early enough!).
    Belly dancing and eating Arabian bread and homous is optional.

    Sisters 4
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    Yesterday we had a random family day. It was quite spontaneous but strangely enough, there were only a few not able to come!

    At least the 4 sisters got to have a yarn, which doesn’t happen very often anymore. The only way I could convince them to have their pic taken was to allow sunnies! Margie left hers at home or she would have been in on the Mafia look too.

    It was great to see them all and the kids enjoyed themselves also. Thanks Susan (and Glenn)!

    Other photos can be seen on this link:

    http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=21330&l=63d50&id=561229505

    Car dramas

       Sophie decided not to go to La Trobe in Bendigo and do teaching this year so she is doing the Diploma of Childcare as a pathway to teaching, at Swinburne. She is at Croydon campus IN THE SAME CORRIDOR AS ME!!!! I can actually hear the class from my desk. This morning she was doing ‘activities’ in the middle of the corridor and I could hear her laughing.

    She is having a great time though and I am itching to do her homework so I am having to restrain myself. Tonight she is making a ‘sensory quilt’ and a fabric snake!!

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    Anyway………. on with the story. Today I was about to drive Swinburnes new ‘Hybrid’ car (which I have not driven before) and my colleague and I were about to get in the car when I got a call from Sophie to say she had reversed into another car in the shopping centre next door. She was fine, but upset so I told her I would come straight over.

    Easily said…….there are no ‘keys’ to this Hybrid car, or ignition to turn over, or shift to change from Reverse to Drive etc. There is also no handbrake and a lot of electronic things going on.

    Do you think we could get that stupid car going????? In the end we got there and I couldn’t figure out how to get it in park or how to put on the handbrake (which turned out to be a foot brake) so I couldn’t get out of the car to go and comfort her. In the end I left it in neutral with no handbrake on and parked at an odd angle. The guy who’s car she hit must have been thinking “THESE WOOD WOMEN NEED TO BE TAKEN OFF THE ROADS”!!

    It was so hysterical, Deb and I laughed afterwards all the way to Hawthorn. Of course then when we got there, we couldn’t get her window up…… so we had to leave it down. Shhhhhh don’t tell our boss lol.

    Soph was a bit teary and has an even bigger hole in her pocket now (its called a CAR) but her car only has a little scratch. The other car is totally caved in! Her words of despair tonight were: “but I just washed it last night!!”

    Thelma and Louise

    jen-and-i-blog-size.jpgLast night I went to Louise’s 50th Birthday party with Colin. Her name is Jennie really but our nic names are ‘Thelma and Louise’. Jen and I acquired these nick names on the way to Bega recently when we went up for a weekend movie shoot for Elindil’s Secret. It was nothing to do with us burning along in the Mazda 6 singing into the radio for the rest of the convoy to enjoy. Nor was it anything to do with having Brad Pitt in the back seat. We didn’t drive off a cliff (like in the movie) so I dunno how we managed it!

    Jens party brought home my own childhood memories. Jen is the oldest of 5 girls …no boys (I am the oldest of 4 girls….. no boys). It was lovely to see her sisters get up last night and sing a song for her and to hear the stories and experiences shared during the speeches. Being a sister has its own special parts to it. The most special, is as Andy said last night, the ability for us to hold 50 conversations at once and still know what we are talking about!

    Anyway, HAPPY BIRTHDAY Louise, you really are a trouper and I have enjoyed getting to know you on the movie crew.

    You rock!! (and so did the band last night!)