Thanks for the welcome. I thought there must be some aussies around. I'm also originally from Melbourne, in SA for the past 10 years, prior to that Northern NSW! Even the Buttery in 91. I miss it. I was planning on moving to Lismore just before the last floods. I'm right near the Adelaide Hills so it's breathtakingly beautiful here, everyday I acknowledge how lucky I am. Good weather too, compared to sad grey Melbourne anyway. I'm renting with beautiful views but the owner is very old so if I'm still fit enough I'll head to Northern NSW maybe even before this ends because I'm a hippy at heart. I haven't found any in SA! I also finally found out that I'm on the spectrum at about 51. I hope that it was a relief for you. It has completely changed my feelings about being alive after 30 years of therapy etc etc. I worked in Redfern for 6 years, at the block. So lucky! But of course it involved a lot of sadness. Sorry it took me so long to reply. I get home at around this time everyday. I'm usually always up for a chat. I don't have any friends here, but It's country so there are a lot of chatterboxes around. The local indigenous people here are the saddest I've met anywhere except for maybe parts of WA. I think that affects the energy here. Really nice to meet you. Cheers.
@Outdated is near you. Yes, I know the Buttery well. My late stepfather (bless his beautiful heart) spent a year at the Buttery and I did a wonderful Music Therapy course, here in Nimbin, courtesy of the Buttery, a few years back.
Lismore has bounced back, fairly well, in many ways and continues to. It seems like a more heartfelt and community-minded little city, post floods.
I've been to Redfern! People there were good to us. Long time ago. I was in a band called "Earth Reggae" and we were involved with various indiginous musical artists and activists, at the time. It would've been in 1990, I think, that we visited Redfern. I wouldn't been a pregnant teenager, I think.
We are having a monsoonal summer here, very muggy and lots of thunder storms; a wet one.
You should come up! The more the merrier!
I hear that, very recently, a Neurodiversity peer group started up, in Lismore. Or it might be strictly Autism, I can't remember now. I heard about it at the Art&Craft group run by "peer workers" that I've recently started going too. it"s a brand new group, The Peer support group for Autists. It's on a Wednesday evening, so I can't go, coz I live in Nimbin and I don't drive (yet). Unless I find out someone from Nimbin is going, then I could get a lift, Now that's a thought. Sorry, I'm thinking aloud. But seriously, you will love it up here, if you can handle uber humidity. It's pretty awesome ( says a woman who rarely leaves her house these days) and yes, I am more than a little bit hippy (thanks mum!) I can't help that, it's how I was raised. I am working on getting more of an out-of-the-house life again, post band and post raising a giant tribe of kids.
