I’m in Brisbane waiting for someone to take my order at a Turkish restaurant. Rapidly losing my sangfroid because there is nothing like eating alone to make you impatient with waiting staff. Southbank itself is a rather lively well landscapes part of town and this Sunday is busy with people strolling along the wide footpaths [...]
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Okay I’m not really whinging. I like Melbourne. I could live here. No. Really. (Anyone want to offer me a job?) But the thing with the tram lines does my head in. I feel like a bird in an aviary. Or Truman in The Truman Show. Does anyone else feel like that? Oh. Just me? [...]
Saw the million dollar artwork for Perth yesterday. Do I love it? Am I supposed to? Is that the point of public art? I’ll give it this much… it stands out. And I kind of like that about public art. It can’t always be tasteful and classic… a statue of the great and good… usually [...]
Warning: Rant alert A foggy morning. The rain splattered against the skylight in my bathroom so I knew it was raining. Raining! Deep happiness. I walk into my bedroom to get changed and I can hear this weird rushing sound. I check to see if the overhead fan is on… or maybe the reverse cycle [...]
Gotta love Sydney. Well I do. I guess it’s because I spent a couple of months at a critical age in this fair town… and because I consider Sydney to be to Perth’s somewhat brash teenage self an… Older, gay uncle? Worldly, confident spinster aunt? Or is that Melbourne? Whatever… I love Sydney. I love [...]
So the conference is over and a better organised conference I don’t think I’ve been to. This btw is really a holding post. Written from my phone. Today my plan is to catch a ferry to greenwich to stay with a friend. Then tomorrow catching up with a few work friends before heading back to [...]
How does that saying go… It’s as pretty as an airport? Well I made it. Packed this morning so probably forgot something important. Certainly concerned that haven’t brought “right” clothes for the event. What does one wear to a bloggers conference anyway? Too late to worry about that now. Should board shortly. Do I have [...]
I don’t go into churches often, except on holiday where churches are part of the tourism circuit or, you know, for weddings or funerals, but today I popped into the Bunbury Cathedral. The new Bunbury Cathedral. The old one was rendered unsafe by a mini-tornado in 2005 and had to be demolished. You don’t see [...]
Oh I know darlings! Enough said right? I mean I don’t even defrost my OWN fridge so what the hell am I doing, the floors strewn with towels, trying to dislodge the wedged in drawers of my parents’ fridge? Good daughter things. That’s what I’m doing. Luckily it is quite warm so the fridge is [...]
Photo essays seem such a cheat don’t they? Not many words… This was the first thing I saw on arrival in Brisbane. I love the idea of citycycle. I wonder how well it works. We went up to Mt Coot-tha for the spectacular views. The amazing colours of Brisbane sandstone look as if someone has [...]
