The Mint Minge Motor Inn – was on the richest street in Brisbane but in the worst house! This place came about when i had my 3 weeks off over xmas and had to move in that time – well that was the Byron Bay, Heath’s wedding, Summerfield days, etc and before you know it i was down to the last day of business before going back to work after the weekend and hadn’t even thought of moving. This all hit me as we were having a great little gathering at Rod’s Yellow Banyo house and i started to panic – well the crew who were there that day all just rallied around and we had someone on realestate.com looking and this was the first one we saw. We decide to go and see it right there and then, all 6 or 7 of us! We arrive and the agent is showing all 6-7 of us the place, we decide its perfect, drove to my mums to get the necessary documents, applied for the place and were back at Rod’s in a matter of only a few hours to continue partying as we were earlier. I lived here by myself and loved it – it was painted bright green, had the smallest kitchen that was fire engine red and carpet, yes carpet in the bathroom. Someone once said to me it was like what the imagine a motel room that Marilyn Monroe OD’d and died at, to look like. What was funny is that so many people would squeeze into my tiny 1 bedroom place (you can see in some pics everyone was quite happy to jam into doorways even) . This place along with the Yellow Banyo House was where Loose Dolly will always remember and feel most at home. I’ve posted these pics cause you can see the detail in the room in the back grounds.
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The Yellow Banyo House …
I have so many memories that are from the Yellow Banyo house that was Rodney’s that i decided i needed to write about our places in general. HIs place – THE YELLOW BANYO FIBRO – I had helped him move into the yellow place from what we used to call the big house.. the big house was on the opposite side of the street and twice as big. When Rod sold the big house we decided to just move everything over the road by hand and not pack anything. 3 very rainy days later we were still going – Rod always says i proved my friendship that day and since has never asked for help moving house. This house was just beautiful and pretty – yellow paint, white on features and beautiful fuchsia creeping flora that could cover the house. We constantly changed his furniture around – bucket seats in the lounge room and all dark and ‘royal’ theme, or white leather couch and pink shag pile rug…. it was always changing in the lounge room. His kitchen there though would probably be, if i could call anything, my ‘safe’ place. Big table almost filling the room, his cabinet filled with some expensive blue and white crockery behind us, the 2 doves on the wall, the pink weird light, the bowl of heaps of coins – and just conversations and cups of tea…..Bliss! I had my own room here and always felt home in my bed there, Rod’s bed was brilliant though – he has a church pew as his bed head which is just fabulous.
Our Greatest achievement in this house was the Fruit and Veggie garden that took over half of Rod’s back yard – im devestated i dont have any pictures besides the one where you can see the start of the garden behind me and a friend in our bikinis. We had every kind of fruit and veggie you can think of growing at some point – we decided the first thing you would have to walk through was ‘corn as high as an elephants eye’ and when the corn grew to this high it was just so so cool. We used to put any randoms who had slept over after a big night out get up, get into the smallest shorts we could find them and get them to toil the earth! Many a blow up pool and hay bails were bought in next to the veggie patch in long hot summer sundays to be loose in the sun – i distinctly remember a bunch of us in the blow up pool doing a ‘Summer rain’ rendition – great times here.
Loose Dolly costumes and characters
I always knew I would make sure I captured some of the costumes or looks that Loose Dolly went out in every night the highlight has been my dear friend Diana the naughty giraffe finding an old photo of the two of us at a friends party – Loose Dolly dressed as Marilyn Monroe in white dress just looking for a subway airflow , and her as Audrey Hepburn doing breakfast at Tiffany’s. As usual we were the hit of the event, went out to Monastery (we stood out … fabulously) but why need an event to dress up and look different from everyone else – it always had a lot of people wanting to talk about why in costume, and it generally said to the other social sheep who just follow each other that im proud to be more fun than you! This carried on into more than just going out and on many a random morning I could become a character or have a style whipped up from random pieces of stuff and things around the house – now watching people’s reaction to this was also priceless as some were just not sure how to take it – other times everyone went with it and wanted to be in costume! The all time favorite that I wore out many a night was the naughty detention outfit – when I met Chris he claimed he knew me by sight from that outfit! There is army girl, marching girl, and a day I thought I was Steve Erwin wife, 80’s themes, Paris and Nicky Hilton, Rods in velvet blue jacket and cowboy hat (this was the costume for when we would sing Quando Quando Quando) Beatrice bush rise to fame in the same white Marilyn dress…. Sumo suits that didn’t survive long, and Chuggington in a Mumu. He will kill me….. with a pen! What amazes me is i hardly spent any money on clothes – the white skirt from the naughty detention was something Rod and i just cut one night, everything cost me next to nothing (except those fabulous red velvet peeptoe bow shoes – and they were so comfy!) There are to many funny photo’s for me to go into them all but all will come up again later when i get to individual memories.
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