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Mardi Gras Parade 2011
If you were to identify a “glory time” for Mardi Gras, in terms of crowds, you would have to say it was the 1990s. Every year, it seemed, there were claims of “record crowds”. Every year, it seemed, the number of parade participants increased, and so did the number of people watching. The parade route [...]
Chinatown Tour
“These will bring passion and romance into your life”, the bloke behind the counter said to me as I handed over my planned purchase. “That was the general idea”, I told him and we smiled at each other. It was towards the end of an “Historical and Cultural Tour” of Chinatown, co-inciding with Chinese New [...]
Bat Crap
Would it be wrong if I wore thongs, not shoes to work tomorrow? What about shorts, instead of pants? Yes, yes I know the answer to both questions. For a mid-ranking bureaucrat such as myself, it’s part of the deal, part of the shtick that I should wear always nice pants (and usually a jacket) [...]
Edge of Elsewhere
I’d highly recommend an exhibition Kate and I attended the opening of tonight, at Sydney’s 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art. It’s a gallery space which mostly features work by Australian artists who have an Asian cultural background, but often in collaboration with people from other cultural backgrounds. As you enter the downstairs part of [...]
Festival First Night
“She looks a bit bored”, my friend Kate said to me, referring to the expression on the face of Emmylou Harris, as she performed tonight at Sydney Festival First Night. I’m not a huge fan of Emmylou Harris, but I was keen to see her perform. I thought she looked more like Deborah Harry, actually. [...]
Renovation City
My two favourite foods in the world are tomato and cucumber. Combined in a salad with some cheese, and I’m in heaven. Any variation of meat from a pig comes a very close second, including pork and bacon. Even more so, when it’s my first time in the newly re-opened Cossie’s Cafe in Surry Hills. [...]
Hot in the city tonight
As I walked through the centre of Sydney tonight two things came to mind: first, how warm it was; and second, how fantastic it is to have the renovations on the Pitt Street Mall close to completion. For such a long time, the Pitt Street Mall has been under renovation, I’d all but given up [...]
Beautiful Sunday
Twelve months ago in Sydney we were recovering from the dust storm. Twelve months later it remains a topic for conversation in Sydney. And it’s an event which has influenced two of the photographs in this year’s Sydney Life art exhibition in Hyde Park. One is a reasonably straightforward representation of the storm taken on [...]
Visually Spectacular
Work is abuzz at the moment with the new twenty-four hour news channel, ABC News24 which, no doubt, you’ve read about or have seen advertised on television. And all the buzz is happening at my end of the big building. As I go up and down from my office on the second floor to the [...]
Sundry Sunday
There are some days when I sit around doing, literally, nothing. I’m lucky if I leave the house. That was not the case today, with three activities scheduled. Kate and I caught up early this afternoon with a wander around Fair Day in mind. “It’s a great photographic opportunity” , we both agreed, with the [...]
Kings Cross Sydney
“How old do you think she is?” I was asked tonight by a friend and colleague. “At least seventy”, I said, “I often see her riding her gopher (scooter) around the streets of Surry Hills”. “At first she seemed apprehensive when she was driving it on major roads, but now she seems quite confident”, I [...]
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