Two in one weekend!

On Monday when I got to work, our building had been broken into, the doors smashed, quite a bit of damage to filing cabinets and fixtures, but I couldn't find anything but a small amount of petty cash missing. All the computer equipment, tv, dvds etc were there. When Tuija arrived an hour later - I start at 7:30am, she arrived as the police did. We found a digital camera and a safe was missing. Stupid thieves really - we are a charitable organisation that tries to survive on miminal govt funding. We work with some of the least powerful people in our society- women with intellectual and learning disabilities. I wonder just why they thought we would have anything? Turns out the safe was empty - I didn't even know we had one, and the camera was missing the memory card. Forensics told us that the would be thieves wore gloves, and now our front door -upstairs- and the glass doors down stairs are bolted into what remains of the door frames till our landlord can get them replaced. Luckily we also have rear doors through the kitchen.

On a much brighter note we had our launch in Logan at CASV, on the Friday. Three of the women who come to WWILD volunteered to go with us and talk about what it's like to be a WWILD woman and use the counselling services and attend the group work that we provide.

WWILD is funded to cover the whole of QLD - a big ask when there are 2.5 0f us and I'm the only counsellor. But we have established the work in the Nth Brisbane area and we found we were getting quite a few people from the Logan/Ipswich area, so we negotiated with CASV, an established Sexual Assault Service in Logan, for some space and I'll be working there on the second Friday of each month. It's a small step but maybe we can show there is a need and maybe even get our funding increased to employ more staff.

Today I bought myself this book from Book Depository UK, I've just discovered them and I suspect they will be getting more business from me. Free shipping to anywhere and great prices - but I digress! I've been feeling stuck, and without time, for my quilting and I hope this will give me lots of inspiration.

There's an exhibition Quilts 1700-2010 at the V and A in London and this will be a good substitute.