We went to see Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Sydney Theatre tonight. A friend bought the tickets, we were just told it was Midsummer Night’s Dream. I really should have found something more out about the performance.
I like fairly challenging books: I believe that the reader should occasionally be made to work for it. I love Pynchon and I enjoy Woolf. [...]
This mega-yacht, Apoise was moored in front of the Park Hyatt at Circular Quay over New Year’s; they would have had a pretty good view of the fireworks.
Apoise is 67m long, which just pushes it out of the top 50 yachts in the world; the shortest yacht on that list is 72m. It’s impossible to tell who owns Apoise. The [...]
The Afternoon Bus Trip Home
It’s a rainy day, there’s three of us huddling under the balcony of the Town Hall hotel. The rain drizzles down slowly; the ashphalt and brick building glisten damply. We’re chatting about garbage collection in Scheme as the bus pulls up and everyone piles on. The three of us take seats at the back and [...]
As you walk around an inner city suburb with high apartment buildings, you may see many balconies with pot plants sitting on the ledges. You may also wander if those pots ever fall onto the street below.
The answer is yes, yes they do.
This is another photo from the large [...]
Across the road from our building is another old warehouse converted into apartments: one of the Mark Foys buildings. This is not the original store, that’s now the Downing Centre. This is the brownstone Mark Foy warehouse.
It’s a very large building, with a lot of apartments in it. Lots of apartments means lots of ’stuff’ going on. A recent trick has [...]
Back in October last year, we spent a weekend at Sydney’s Observatory Hotel for our anniversary. A very nice weekend; their restaurant (Galileo) is highly recommended.
Here are just some random photos from spending time wandering around Miller’s Point, Walsh Bay and looking off the balcony of our room.
Funny story: the weekend was kind of a present from me, [...]
We moved to Sydney at the beginning of 2007. This city is quite renowned for a reasonably good fireworks show on a pretty nice harbour for New Year’s Eve, and as everyone agreed that you need to spend your first Sydney New Year’s down on the harbour, that’s where we went.
We got to Milson’s Point at about 9pm, [...]
I wonder if I’ll be arrested as a subversive for posting this?
In his book The Timeless Way of Building, Christopher Alexander states that people should work where they live. I had some trouble with this at first as it’s pretty difficult to achieve. There aren’t all that many good jobs, and the chances of already living in the same area as the job are pretty low; what are you supposed to [...]
Over in Darlinghurst, on the corner of Bourke and Stanley Sts, there is an old, very run-down, abandoned terrace. Fortunately, though it is essentially a ruin, it has not been knocked down. If you happen to approach this house from the back, by walking up Stanley St, there’s a sight you can catch over the back fence.
I’ve no idea who painted it, or [...]
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