CELEBRATE THE RE-OPENING OF THE BIRTHING SERVICE AT BLUE MOUNTAINS HOSPITAL

Monday, September 1st at 10.00am

Blue Mountains Hospital

(Great Western Highway side)


The provision of local birthing services is vital to our community. Come along and show your support for our local maternity unit.

Enquiries to Janet Mays of HEAL Ph: 0424 720 720

Blue Mountains Birthing Unit

The Blue Mountains Maternity unit has closed the doors to birthing women for 3 months or indefinitely due to staffing issues.

Loads of upset expectant Mums joined in a rally on Monday outside the hospital.

My natal experience at The Blue Mountains Anzac hosptial for my first daughter was wonderful.

The staff were caring and professional..& in fact couldn't have be better and the facilities brand new.

The gazette tells me that regional hospitals all over NSW are closing their birthing units due to lack of staff. 

I am concerned about the many families who have moved to the mountains from Sydney to start families and what their laboring experience will be like with a 1 hr drive in either direction to give birth. I am more concerned given the current situation for birthing units in NSW about new families starting in 10 years time. 

Let's put pressure on local and state and federal governments to make sure staffing issues are sorted out promptly and we see a steady improvement and not a decline in birthing unit services.

Dinner last night

Last night the four Gussy Up Gals went out for a celebration dinner (a post-Winter Magic catch up). We headed out to the fabulous Canton Palace in Katoomba and ate EVERYTHING!

Discussion wasn't very crafty... babies, weddings, engagements, boob jobs, movies, food, colds. But it was lots of fun and I wish now that I'd taken the camera.

Kara

Carrington movie nights

On Tuesday night I saw 'An Affair To Remember' at the Carrington Hotel. It's only $10 for a classic movie and you get a plate of popcorn and get to snuggle down into the big sofas near the fire in the lounge.

Or you can get a cheese or dessert platter with coffee or tea plus the movie for $25 which is delicious and way too much! Yum!

Upcoming movies are:

Tues 29 July - To Catch a Thief - 8pm

Tues 26 Aug - The Old Man and The Sea - 8pm

Tues 30 Sept - How To Marry A Millionaire - 8pm

Tues 28 Oct - Singing In The Rain - 8pm

Tues 25 Nov - West Side Story - 8pm

Tues 16 Dec - Miracle on 34th Street - 8pm

We have booked into most of them and noticed on Tuesday that some are now booked out. It's a great night out and hope to see you there!

Kara

Unbleached Fabrics

L Bird has just finished printing on a new range of unbleached fabrics. This includes linens for Tea Towels and Hemp/Yak hair for aprons. Not only are these fabrics better for our planet, they are more practical for utility kitchen fabrics, and they look really beautiful printed up.We will be displaying them at the "Gussy Up Gals" Tent for the   "Winter Magic" festival in Katoomba come June 21st, and are avaliable through the Laughing Bird website.

Cahills Lookout

Hello There,

Had a magic afternoon on Saturday.

I've been printing up the latest lot of Tea Towel designs. Most were finished so we went to Katoomba's Cahill's lookout to photograph them. It was an awesome time of the day, warm Autumn sun and just a bit of wind. The views there are just incredible. 

There was a couple climbing the Boars head while we were photographing...so I have included them when they reached the top. And a Tea towel mugshot...

Its so handy to live in a world heritage lists park when we need to pop out and take some location shots!

Hope to go back soon with some pizza and a bottle of wine for sundown. Anyone want to join me?

XXxx L Bird

Get the ball rolling...

Last night we had our second meeting at Freedom's house and decided on a name for our creative collective here in the beautiful Blue Mountains : Gussy Up Gals. This name sums up the group nicely and now we just have to get our 'look' going!

After a bottle of red, hot chocolate, dip 'n' cheese and chocolate biscuits, we managed to knock over a lot so that we are ready for Winter Magic festival. Applications close next month and we are ready. The 4 of us will be creating a beautiful stall which we hope will really stand out as something different this year.