The Quest of the Distant Desk
| Mission | A desk is needed. Ali and Talia were willing to go anywhere to find it. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | Ali and Talia went to a dark storage facility in a suspect suburb. They survived. |
The Quest of the water proof disc
| Mission | There was a honey drum out in front of the Southgate house. It was transferred to Grafton. There was a concern all of a sudden that it would rust on the top. It must be covered! |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | Julian, Ariel and Mother travelled to bunnings. We sourced a piece of fluted building plastic. Julian cut it into a circle and put on top of the drum. Mission accomplished. |
The Quest of the Bee on the Pole
| Mission | Once upon a time there was a wooden windmill bee. The bee must rise again. It used to be mounted on a square metal tube. The tube must be found. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | Julian, after travelling to 2 Bunnings, found a cylindrical metal pole, which he painted black. He handed it over. Mission accomplished. |
The Quest of Penketh
| Mission | Dan put a lurid pink hose reel at the front. This will make people think a woman lives in the house!!!! Ali replaced it with a black hose reel. The lurid pink hose reel must be mounted at the back to appease the Dan. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | The brave trio, Ali, Joe and Julian, at night mounted the dreaded reel in the backyard. To further appease the Dan, mum arranged various “pink” plants in a shrine to the hosereel. She named the shrine “Penketh” |
The Quest of the Falling Child
| Mission | Ali’s son did some chair gymnastics. To fix this, the outdoor cement area must be expanded. Tiles must be put on the cement area. |
| Resolution | In Progress |
| Completion | Dan has found 100 tiles for free! |
The Quest of the Wall Facing Chairs
| Mission | Bel wanted some plastic chairs to watch the back garden. But there must be a table for the chairs! |
| Resolution | In Progress |
| Completion |
The Quest of the Idol of the Garden Bee
| Mission | An AI picture of a pile of tires formed an idol to the great garden bee. This inspired a project to build a similar idol out of flower pots |
| Resolution | In Progress |
| Completion |
The Quest of the Stones of Stepping
| Mission | It began as a few stepping stones. We need more stepping stones of this exact same type. |
| Resolution | In Progress |
| Completion | Stepping stones from Grafton, stepping stones from Brisbane, stepping stones keep coming. They must join up! |
The Quest of the Disliked Stone Circles
| Mission | Someone (Bel?) formed some stone circles. She hates stone circles. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | She doesn’t like circles of stone. |
The Quest of the Unneeded Hall Table
| Mission | A table is required in the hall opposite the front door to rest keys upon and have a mirror |
| Resolution | Ali is resisting |
| Completion | In Progress. Possibly someone’s fault but this has not been proven. |
The Case of the Stolen Club Plants
| Mission | That’s a common plant, but I need cuttings. The soccer club wont miss it. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | She broke off two branches and Ali ran away in embarrassment. |
The Quest of the Side View of the Heads
| Mission | She was trying to make us turn our heads in side profile so she could inspect them. |
| Resolution | Complete. |
| Completion | She gave the back story of how she hurt the back of her head as a child and thought the back of her head was flat. She wanted to compare the back of her head to ours to see if they were more rounded. Ali tried to comfort her by assuring her her head was rounded nicely. We thought it was over. It wasn’t. She claimed victory by sneakily viewing our side profiles as we walked to the car…. HA! |
The Quest of the Double Crown
| Mission | She always thought the children inherited a “double crown” from my father. Checks were made on the “crown” status of all. Josh has a triple crown! Julian doesn’t even understand what this means. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | It turns out the hairdresser said SHE had a double crown! Therefore we may have inherited this gift from her!!!!! |
The Quest of the Playing Card Tiles (The Quest of the Stones of Stepping – PART TWO)
| Mission | You cannot have too many stepping stones. |
| Resolution | Complete |
| Completion | Some strange playing card stepping stones were discovered at our ancestral home of Woodford Island. They came from a kindergarten and were for free!!! |