Month: January 2023

Sydney travel blog day 4

Wednesday 18 January 2023 Too hot to do anything Today, the news reported gleefully, people in Sydney would enjoy their first day of 30 degrees for almost a year. Hooray? The words “enjoy” and “30 degrees” do not belong in the same sentence any more than the word “enjoy”...

Sydney travel blog day 3

Tuesday 17 January 2023 Randwick Art Deco According to the handy Randwick Art Deco Walk brochure from Randwick City Council, in the 1920s-1940s, when Art Deco was particularly popular, there was an “explosion of residential building activity in Randwick and Coogee, catering for the boom in population between the...

Sydney travel blog day 2

Monday 16 January 2023 Photowalking at UNSW After yesterday’s wander around the University of NSW campus, I was looking forward to getting back there this morning and taking photos. I had about an hour and half to explore at first light, which wasn’t the greatest for some of the...

Sydney travel blog day 1

Sunday 15 January 2023 Travel blogging is still a thing Back in the days when TravelPod was a thing, I used to write travel blogs whenever I went on holiday. It was a fun way to keep track of where I’d been, what I’d done and what I’d seen....

Week 2: Window shopping

Week 02/2023: Week of 9 January 2023 Windows My house was built in 1951. It had steel window frames that opened sideways in the same way doors open. When we bought the house, the windows were one of the features I fell in love with. Unfortunately, the fames were...

The meh week got exciting

Week 01/2023: Week of 2 January 2023 The meh week If week 52 is the void week (a description I read somewhere that describes the week between Christmas and New Year for those of us who are lucky to have off when we don’t know what day it is...

Week 52/2022: It’s not the end

Week 52/2022: Week of 26 December 2022 It’s not the end I’m one of those lucky people for whom the end of the year is an enforced shutdown. My favourite thing to do during this week is to not do anything and not go anywhere. And that is precisely...