After the closure of the Surry Hills Shopping Village, the search for my new supermarket continues. Though it's not exactly "desperate" (as I have quite a few supermarkets within walking distance), I still haven't settled on which one I'll start using after the three year closure of Coles. It's official: the Surry Hills Shopping Village … Continue reading Supermarket Search
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With the exception of four years in Brisbane, I spent the first thirty years of my life in the country: Lismore, Bourke, Renmark and Wagga. When my career brought me to Sydney, I was really excited.
As I knew I didn’t want to live too far from work, I drew a “walking circle” (old style protractor) around Ultimo, that reached out to Glebe and Pyrmont, but I quickly settled on an apartment in Surry Hills. And even though I’m a country boy at heart, Surry Hills has pretty much become “home”.
Though we've known about the closure and the renovation for some time, the stark reality has finally hit. The Surry Hills Shopping Mall (formerly known as The Refern Mall), and variously known as "The Methadone Mall" or "The Fruit & Nut Mall" is closing on January 10. Over the next couple of years, they'll be … Continue reading Surry Hills Shopping Mall to close
"When are you going to open up a dancefloor?", I joked to the woman behind the bar at my local pub tonight. After months and months of COVID-19 social distancing, people are at last, able to stand around in bars and up to 50 people at a time are allowed to dance. Even though I … Continue reading (I’d) Murder (To Get) On The Dancefloor
I felt a slight bit of sadness today when I saw the email come through about returning to work. With the easing of the pandemic in Australia, my workplace has given the go-ahead for Phase 2 of the return to work plan. I saw the email header, sighed a little, moved on, and then later … Continue reading WFH
"This used to be a laneway that men would pee in", I told the woman I was chatting with. She works at nearby Belvoir Street Theatre, and was really interested in the gathering of about twenty people (story-tellers) in the laneway between Crown Street and Wilshire Lane in Surry Hills. "I walk through here two … Continue reading Surry Laneway