{"id":2158,"date":"2018-09-16T16:42:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/?p=27242"},"modified":"2019-03-14T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-14T12:20:21","slug":"funky-friends-factory-has-moved-to-tasmania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/funky-friends-factory-has-moved-to-tasmania\/","title":{"rendered":"Funky Friends Factory has moved to TASMANIA!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selling our house and <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/were-moving-to-tasmania%f0%9f%8f%a0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>leaving Brisbane<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, packing up and saying goodbye to family and friends after 15 years was quite stressful&#8230; but on top of that we had to drive nearly 4000km (about 2500 miles) to our new house in Tasmania&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>WITH our CAT!!!!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27265\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/traveling-with-a-cat.jpg\" alt=\"traveling with a cat\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He did remarkably well while we were driving as I had him wrapped in a baby-sling which seemed to soothe him. He loved the caravan that hubby built&#8230; all the new cupboards to investigate. I got to take my sewing machine with me in the caravan because I was designing the next pattern for the Sew Many Funky Friends Club!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27247\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pauline-sewing-in-the-caravan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"281\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kitty got to sleep WITH us for 9 nights, something he&#8217;s never been allowed to do! He was just getting used to things on our road-trip when we hit Melbourne and boarded the huge <strong>Spirit of Tasmania Ferry<\/strong> to take us across the ocean to our new island state. The <strong>Bass Strait<\/strong> between mainland Australia and Tasmania is known to be one of the most treacherous stretches of ocean and we thought we&#8217;d hit a particularly rough night to cross when we woke up in the night literally lifting horizontally off the beds! Lucky the sea-sickness tablets worked for us BUT poor kitty has sworn he&#8217;ll never sail the seas again \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-27260\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Spirit-of-Tasmania.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"264\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And then, finally we were there and YES &#8211; Tasmania is as cold as they say!!!! BUT I think it was a sign of good things to come because the day we arrived we had&#8230;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SNOW and<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>RAINBOWS!!!<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-27259\" style=\"border: 1px solid #a8a5a9; padding: 4px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Snow-and-rainbows.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"393\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Exhausted ~ but happy to be in our new home!<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Pauline McArthur\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Pauline-McArthur.jpg\" alt=\"Pauline McArthur\" width=\"202\" height=\"196\"><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>bye for now, <\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong> Pauline<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>xxx<\/strong> <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"White-Spacer\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/White-Spacer.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"sociable\">\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling our house and leaving Brisbane, packing up and saying goodbye to family and friends after 15 years was quite stressful&#8230; but on top of that we had to drive nearly 4000km (about 2500 miles) to our new house in Tasmania&#8230; WITH our CAT!!!! &nbsp; He did remarkably well while we were driving as I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-day-in-my-life","category-blog","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.funkyfriendsfactory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}