"We apologise for the delay, but we're still not sure when we can leave, after an earlier incident", the tram driver told us twice. While many others got off the tram, I decided to wait. And what a lovely experience it was. There was a couple sitting opposite with a child of maybe eighteen months … Continue reading Surry Hills Tramstop
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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”.
A couple of days ago a friend and neighbour alerted me to a new piece of public art in Surry Hills, on the wall of the nearby Bourke Street Bakery. Her post on Facebook made me somehow more conscious of the public art that already surrounds me. The bird mural on Edgley/Nickson Streets The pottery … Continue reading Public Art in Surry Hills
I'm not really sure when I started looking closely at "Development Applications" but it must have been sometime between 2005 and 2010. I was the Program Director at ABC Radio Sydney (then named 702 ABC Sydney), and I knew local council activities were a good source of news stories. Previously, I'd worked at the ABC … Continue reading Development Applications
"Did you see the excitement in the street the other day?" my next door neighbour asked me. "It was in The Daily Mail and it was on Channel 7 News", she added. She was referring to the arrest of an older couple who live across the road for alleged heroin dealing. I go into work … Continue reading Under My Nose
There's always something "scarey" about trying a new cuisine. Even though I'm fairly adventurous, by nature, when it comes to food, there's still some apprehension. Apprehension that you'll order the "wrong thing", or that you'll make a cultural faux pas. That's why I've been walking past a fairly new nearby restaurant in Surry Hills, never … Continue reading Food, Glorious Food