No news, just more atmospheric pics

Two weekends ago I walked the 25 minutes from my end of Newtown to the back end of the old Tooths Brewery (aka CUB Brewery) site on Broadway (a stalled major apartment building project) to attend the sustainability fair in Chippendale. The fair was held in a narrow street behind the main brewery site, now mostly demolished apart from a couple of ' ( Read more... )

I went for a walk late this morning as I just couldn't settle to any work. One of the privileges of being self-employed is the ability to take executive decisions like that. I went into a part of Newtown I don't frequent as much as my immediate neighbourhood, as I wanted to get a good long walk, & also, if possible, to check out a huge warehouse ( Read more... )

Took my family (up from Melbourne) to see the Skipping Girls last weekend, between intermittent heavy showers of rain. The notice has been edited already - the original date of the girls' creation has been modified to '96(!). 13 years is a long time for something as ephemeral as uncommisssioned street art ( Read more... )

I thought the Skipping Girls had been removed - painted over, or the fence panels replaced - during the time I was away from my beloved neighbourhood, but this w/end has proved me wrong. Hooray!

Firstly, I saw a guy yesterday,selling framed photos of Newtown street art - naturally the first that caught my eye was a shot of the girls. He also ( Read more... )

Today being a gorgeous autumn day, I actually managed to haul myself out of bed before 7am (the sunrise shines straight in my window) & walk the 2kms down the length of King St, north to south to Sydney Park. Not only that, I also walked up & down some of the bumps laughing known as 'hills' on this converted industrial wasteland, and enjoyed the ( Read more... )

Last night was Earth Hour, when almost 4,000 towns & cities around the world switched off their lights for an hour to accentuate the importance of dealing with climate change. Not in Newtown they didn't ( Read more... )

I went for an early morning walk today, intending to walk down to and around Sydney Park, an old industrial site complete with brick kilns, which has been remediated and turned into parkland and wetlands. It has had even more work done on it since I was last there 2 years ago, including, so the council tells us, public toilets! (No more going ( Read more... )

I've been back in Newtown exactly a week, & it still feels weird. Wonderful, but weird. I guess part of the weirdness is about being in the same apartment building, but not the same apartment. This one is spacious, & has a view (pics later ( Read more... )

This morning, as part of my preparations for moving, I bought a washing machine. A brand new, small, energy & water efficient front loader. What's more I paid cash - or at least put it on my everyday card, not my expensive credit card - & thus got a discount for cash ( Read more... )