Easter Sunday. Bronte is the next beach down from Bondi [there's that fantastic 2km walk between them along the cliffs and through Tamarama]. Bronte is much better for families - got playgrounds etc.
Wednesday, March 30, 2005
Bronte cafe scene
Linda and the boys exiting after tricking me into sipping some "home made lemonade" that turned out to be tons of salt and sugar dissoved in water. Thanks!
Andrew's icecream at Bronte
Andrew with his expensive blackcurrent ice cream [surcharge at weekends!] bought from the kiosk run by people with French accents.
Dangerous current Bronte beach
The sign says it all. Amazingly there weren't that many people about on this beautiful weekend.
Nice view for Easter lunch - Bronte
This was taken from wehere we sat down under an overhang at the north end of the beach to eat sandwiches and watch the big surf [and some of the crazy surfies who were out in it].
Bronte beach closed
It doesn't look it in this picture but the sea was quite rough on Easter Sunday. One silly person who didn't obey this sign was swept out to sea and never seen again!
Bronte sea pool
This is one of our favourite paces for a swim - but not today. On Easter Sunday it was very rough [and the water not so warm now it's autumn]. But some people enjoyed the big waves!
Thursday, March 24, 2005
Nepean river
From last year. Nice isn't it?This river marks the border /start of the Blue Mountains - on the right, lowland Sydney plains. On the left - the canyons and bush of the Blue Mountains.
Monday, March 21, 2005
A guest staying the weekend
Look what I found on Saturday when I was taking some boxes down off a top shelf. This Huntsman spider jumped off the wall onto the floor and disappeared under the bed. Imagine having to go to sleep knowing that thing is in the room!
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Where I spend half my life - Strathfield station
Every day I do the timetable shuffle - gazing here at the indicator boards to see which train will suddenly arrive out of nowhere to take me into Sydney.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Ferry cross the harbour: Poul in 2005
Two ferry journeys, almost twenty years apart. I met Poul [from Denmark] in 1987 in the South of France, while on holiday around Nice.
I don't remember much about it now, except that we mooched around a bit, went to the casino at Monte Carlo and bummed around the beach with a cool New Yorker called Bernie Delgado who worked as a designer on the New York Post.
At that time Poul was training to be a journalist and I was going from one disastrous career choice (drug repping for Astra) to another (PhD back at Liverpool Uni).
Well we had a lot to talk about then, and even more to talk about when Poul turned up in Sydney this week - after a break of 18 years! We had lunch at Aqua and then took a ferry across the harbour. The weather was slightly better than it was in 87 when Poul and I took a ferry across the Mersey.
Poul now works for TV2 in Denmark.
Ferry cross the Mersey: Poul in 1987
This is Poul back in the 1980s when he came up to see us in Liverpool. The ferry cross the Mersey on a typical "good weather" day for Liverpool.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Bye Kel
Our editor of many years, Kellie, left last month to have a baby. This was the leaving do. Here you can see Lara [political reporter]; Fiona [business editor] Kel at end of table, Rob [designer]; Shaun [new reporter] Edwina [political editor] and Karen [professional news reporter].
Kellie's leaving do
Deana [new editor] gives a speech at Kel's [old editor's] leaving do at some rubbish Italian restaurant in Crows Nest. They wouldn't let me drink beer! And it was a really hot evening.
Monday, March 14, 2005
The cactus and the fountain
After a swim at Cook and Philip park and watching the St Patrick's parade we went to the Botanic Gardens...
Monday, March 07, 2005
South Head on a sunny Sunday
Lovely weather. The last of the summer - or the beginning of the autumn?
Paul in a cafe
Gloria jeans to be exact. Awful coffee - but it's the only one open on Sunday in Strathfield.
Clontarf day off
We went to Clontarf on the North Shore last week, to walk the Spit to manly walkway. This is a beach on the way.
Manly to Spit Wharf view
This is the highpoint of the walk from Clontarf to Manly - looking towards the city (and Balmoral beach opposite).
Can I have the double cone?
At Dobroyd Point, a windy place overlooking Manly and the outer harbour, we walked up the track to this ice cream van. I wonder what this exaspertaed Itlain gent is saying - Paul couldn't make up his mind!
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