Choose your own adventure - November 2024

Choose your own adventure – November 2024
 
We’ve done it again! We decided that this week we would choose our own adventure. That’s two weeks in a row BUT…the team spoke, and we listened! We also welcomed Ash and Nick to or blogging team.
 
Part 2 ticket blog - Hello and welcome to part two of my blog on the issues surrounding ticketing and seating. Recently I went to Coldplay and while I got awesome seats, my friends got sold "ghost seats". For those who don’t know what ghost seats are they are seats that are sold that don’t exist within the venue. I don’t understand how can this can happen when ticket agencies are the ones who understand the venue and plan out the events and sales. This creates an absolute mess for the innocent venue staff and stress for the people involved. In this case my friends and the one of our support workers got to sit in the second row.  My concern though is that in the future, people will have to leave a concert (or any event for that matter) because ticketing agencies don’t seem to have the capacity or understanding of the event or the venue itself.
 
My other concern is that disabled seats are being sold to people who don’t need it but due to overcrowding they get sold to anyone. How can we ensure that this doesn’t happen in future? What should the policy be if ghost seats are sold? Has this ever happened to you? How does it make your feel, and how would you feel if this happened to you?
 
That’s it for another blog!
 
Keep being awesome - Ben
 
 
I am back from a good trip with my dad, we went to The Bend in South Australia for a few nights to race cars.  It was so much fun I did buy some clothes. 
 
I love go to the racing cars. I have so much fun in trying to help my dad to fix the wheels in the pit. I also put some fuel and oil in the back boot. We have pizza two nights and chicken parmigiana.
 
Next week I go to my new house and plan out for new things.  I am excited.
 
Thank you everyone - TJ
 
 
Hello everyone my name is Ash and this is my first time of blogging. I’m a huge fan of Southern Sons and I’ve met Jack Jones heaps of times. I’ve even got a hug from Jack and Peter Bowman from Southern Sons. 
 
I’m also a huge fan of Ned Kelly’s history and I find it very interesting history. 
Ned Kelly’s real name was Edward and he was one of eleven kids. The Kelly gang and Ned Kelly’s final words were "Such is Life". I have a huge interest in Australian history like Ned Kelly’s history and also Australian music.

There are a few little known facts about Ned Kelly, that he saved a 11 year old boy from drowning in the creek and he tried to derail the train from Wangaratta to Melbourne. Lastly his skull was stolen from the old Melbourne jail. It is still a mystery as to where it is. 
 
Ned Kelly’s body was originally in the old Melbourne jail ground and then they moved his body to Pentridge in 1939. His descendants wanted him to be buried in Greta with his family members and in 2022 I went and did the Ned Kelly tour. I got to go to Beechworth, Wangaratta, Benalla, Glenrowen and Greta, Avenel, Seymour, Mansfield and Beveridge. I wish I could go to Jerilderie to see Ned Kelly’s letter. One day. 
 
Thank you for reading my very first choose your own adventure blog. – Ash
 
 
Hi friends, how are you? it’s Thursday again which means back to blogging. Today's topic is a choose your own adventure and my adventure is going to be a conundrum because I don’t know what to write about today. Sometimes I have a little bit of help from my friends or support workers so I have to put my thinking cap on. 

I am a fashionista, and for those who don’t know what it is it is where you dress up.  Like today. A fun fact about me is that I love to spend money. I find it difficult because I don’t buy things online I buy things that are in stores.  Although I do like Temu. A fun fact about the concept of fashion and what’s considered fashionable first started in 1858. Can you imagine what the clothes must have been like back then?  Another fun fact is it takes 700 litres of water to make a cotton shirt and shoes can take up to one thousand years to break down. 

Lastly, clothes can take up to forty years to decompose. That’s why I find it important to buy second hand and save the clothes from going into landfill.  

Another thing that I am really interested in is astrology/ star signs. it first started in the 19th century and it became popular for those who needed some guidance and information on compatibility. 

Thank you for reading my blog from your lovely friend Beth 
 
 
Hi I am Nick, welcome to my first blog.
My hobbies are riding scooters with my friends and I like to spend a lot of time in my shed fixing lawn mowers.

Funny story, my dad drove me and my friend to Kilcunda where they have a sand track for us to race our scooters  When I was riding my scooter my friend Dave pushed me and I fell from my scooter, and we even got it on video. It was funny and even funnier when I re-watch the video.

One more thing I would like for you to know about me is that I work at the tip in Hallam and I love working there. I always find things to discover. When we find the good stuff they can re-sell it at the shop. My favourite part of the job is that I get to break stuff and pull them apart. I think it's fun and it doesn't matter when I break things.

Thank you for reading my first blog.
 
 
Dear readers, this week's topic is a choose your own adventure.
Let me start by telling you about what I chose to write, it's a made up story set in a fairytale kingdom.
 
Once upon a time in the fairytale kingdom, there was a beautiful rose garden where a pretty fairy with purple sparkly wings lived.  She was best friends with a mushroom, pegasus and a unicorn. The fairy’s name was Rose, the mushrooms name was Blossom, the unicorn's name was Cherry and Pegasus' name was Sugar Plum.

They had a conundrum: Sugar Plum the pegasus lived in another kingdom called cloud kingdom which was far away up in the clouds. They can’t see Sugar plum every day because she lives so far away.

Stay tuned for part two for my next choose your own adventure, fairytale kingdom story.
 
Written by Charlotte
 
 
 I’m seeing orange, oops I mean red. (if you know, you know)! 

Today I walk around with a swirl of feelings, and I can’t believe the reality of certain events. I'm not going to dive into the event or its results, because why waste the time on it when there is nothing, I can do to change it. As for the feelings I will touch on them briefly now, I'm confused, disappointed, filled with disbelief and there's a small amount of outrage.

I will at some point get to acceptance but that's not happening today and just because I’m willing to come to the reality of the situation it does not mean I will like it. This event has a ripple effect and will continue to do so for the next four years. There’s your clue my dear readers. 

This is what happens when I don’t switch off from social media and have endless access to Google when I probably should have just read a good book. Though I will add that while that would have been a wonderful thing for my mind, I would have eventually still have had to come to reality. Reality will not and cannot be ignored or avoided forever. It doesn't care what you're trying to hide from, it will bring you back down to earth and it doesn't care what you want or how hard you fall.

Heartless but it must happen, for our own good, I guess. I have spent probably years of my life with my nose buried in a book to avoid facing whatever it was that I didn't want to face at that time. Practicing avoidance won’t work my friends and I know because I have practiced avoidance a lot. 

Your girl (me) likes a good brain dump if you haven't noticed, though I might have mentioned it before and I hope you all don’t mind. This is how I work through things, and this is the edited, G rated and well put together version of a brain dump. Honestly if you were inside my brain right now, you’d either be well entertained or completely shocked or both. My brain is great but also there's no holding back from all the different thoughts and opinions once you are in there. I've got all the genres in there so I suppose there's something for everyone! 

I hadn't expected this blog to go the way it has, and it was a bit of a journey but once I got going and put on my angry playlist with my headphones I was on fire. I will leave the playlist to your imagination, but it is my absolute favourite for when I need to get things done and work though things.  
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As always thank you for reading,  
Your friend Shan.