sydney a few weeks ago, photo dump pt 2

kew houses

Walking around Kew looking at houses in a street the name of which I have a massive mental block about. It's a huge mental block because I checked it a minute ago and have forgotten it again. Begins with M. Also, Studley Ave. 

Blah, won't upload any more pictures. I am going to either add them later to this post or post another post for you. 

gillard: a post from fifteen years ago

I have to say that every time there is a piece of Gillard news I get depressed. I turn it off if I can. I think a lot of the reasons she is unpopular are entirely unfair. Some of them are warranted. But I really, really want hers to be a regime I can feel comfortable with. It's been a year now and no real sign of that on the horizon. Abbott is apparently hovering in the wings ready for the Howard Years remake. Fuck it!

wisdom of the ages

 

boundary road

These are technically North Melbourne homes by which I mean they are right at the edge of NM in a part of NM that people probably don't think of as NM at all, but that's not the point. What interests me is what is it like living in a house on a very main road, where your main interest is surely protecting yourself from the sound (and pollution) of the traffic right outside your front door. I looked at these on google earth and I now realise that they do have some kind of rear access too, but no car parking space as far as I can tell unless that's incorporated into the main structure of the houses, which it might well be. I will have to wander down there sometime soon for a look. 

 

bulli/coledale/thirroul/austinmer/port kembla a week ago - 3 the bats

 The Bats

bulli/coledale/thirroul/austinmer/port kembla a week ago -2

 

These things had some kind of function in World War 2 (although I suppose they didn't, unless it was preventative) keeping tanks off the beaches. They've been relocated to this lookout so you can have your band photo taken there. 

Ok so that was great, probably 2 degrees too warm for me but everything's too warm for me. Now zoom a few (3?) hours forward to Coledale and we are doing soundcheck for this show. I wander down to the Coledale beach just as the sun is going down (which it does early in this part of the world). 

I wandered up the hill as well - Coledale goes back into the escarpment 2-3 blocks. A train was coming in.

Here's Alec tuning up (I suppose) before we play. We went really well, I think (perhaps not quite as good as rehearsal, but whatever!!!). 

I'll put some Bats pictures up in a little while, for what that's worth. They really had the place jumping.