Rachel Bunder

I think you can here the oasis concert on the sea eagle web cam www.sea-eaglecam.org/video.html

We should have a viewing party

I do not understand anything about baseball

Cover of “233 Celsius” by Ray Bradbury

The first (1955) Danish edition of Ray Bradbury’s FAHRENHEIT 451. Later editions did not convert the title, so this is the only SI-compatible edition! 🎢

And the was my day. There was a lot that I would have liked to see but ran out of time. Definitely will go to Sydney Open next year

Last stop was the walk way between Martin place station and Hunter street, Muru Giligu or Path of Light. This isn’t really something special for Sydney Open, it’s always open. The lights and music change depending on the people walking through

St James church. Designed by government architect Francis Greenway (he also did a few lighthouses), the church is definitely more classic government building, less church compared to St Philip’s

I really liked this side chapel with three walls made entirely of stain glass. Apparently they hold smaller week day services in this space

The crypt underneath. Not sure if Antoine is buried here, but they make use of this space for community services

Second last stop was St James Church. They also have bell ringers but they had just finished practice then I got there

The outside of Hyde park barracks

The outside of the Sydney mint

An excellent citrus lamination from the mint

I walked past the mint and Hyde park barracks. I had stopped at the mint earlier for food, they do a great citrus lamington

The college of physicians have already decorated for Christmas

I tried to see the Australasian Royal college of physicians, but you needed to book a tour which I had not.

A statue of the cat Trim, companion to Matthew Flinders, first cat to circumnavigate Australia. The plaque nearby reads: “TO THE MEMORY OF TRIM The best and most illustrious of his race The most affectionate of friends, faithful of servants, and best of creatures He made the tour of the globe, and a voyage to Australia, which he circumnavigated, and was ever the delight and pleasure of his fellow voyagers”

The state library facade. It is a big sand stone building with a two lane slip road right outside. Apparently they are reducing that road so the library can have a nice forecourt

I walked past the state library, too many things to see so I didn’t go in

George Reid was the 4th PM, leader of the free trade party and later leader of the anti-socialist party when free trade and protectionist parties had to join forces to compete against labor. He is generally considered a pretty nothing PM, just really holding the office while the other parties sort themselves out. But in NSW he was responsible for the creation of technical high schools. I remember a nice quote of his saying should support everyone to their abilities, but can’t find it now

Jack Lang was premier during the great depression. Federal gov and other premiers got together to agree on austerity measures and to prioritise paying loans back to the uk banks. Lang decided to prioritise things like war widow pensions instead. The feds tried to take nsw revenue directly from the banks to pay loans. NSW then got tax paid directly to the treasury. In the end the governor sacked Lang. He remained labor leader for a few more elections but didn’t win them. He got expelled from the labor party, so he made his own party, “Labor(not communist)”.

And more portraits. No portraits of Billy Hughes though, no one wants to claim him

I assume this is who the town of Robertson is named after, famous for a very large suspiciously shed shaped potato and pies. He was a big fan of land tax, which is simmering we still haven’t agreed on

Hansard was an actual person! Thomas Curson Hansard has a gallery named after him

Major Frederick Goulburn has an enormous forehead

Some portraits in Parliament House

The outside of NSW Parliament House. This part use to be the rum hospital. What use to be the parliamentary library for the legislative council use to be the surgeon office. At some point it got extended using a prefab metal frame that was hanging around circular quay, delivered 2 years too late to be used for its original purpose

Reflection fountain that distracts you from the brutalist tower behind. The tower is where offices and staff are

Nail inspo. It is meant to have red nails like the UK lion, but the Australian heraldry guy said you shouldn’t have the same colour on top of itself (red nails on red cross). The story is there was a debate to decide on the new nail colour and in the end it was chosen to match the nails of a woman in the chamber. I have to look up when this supposedly happened and the history of nail polish

State Parliament House: somehow I’ve never been in

That should be the Lucy Osbourne Nightingale Museum

The outside of the building. Fancy brickwork with a fancy bird fountain

The original nurses uniform. The belt buckle was designed for Sydney in particular. Apparently at the time each hospital in the UK had their own buckle

The most terrifying machine. A large magnet to remove metal from eyes

The Lucy Coburg Nightingale Museum: Lucy Coburg was a nurse trained under Nightingale and was sent to Sydney after a request for trained nurses. Now part of the eye hospital grounds

The outside of the building on Martin Place

The grand staircase inside

Inside they have new building contrasted with the original

More showing all the buildings they connected up

The Fullerton Hotel who occupies the old GPO building.

The science house on the other side of a 6 lane highway

The science house. Use to house the professional science body until they moved to Canberra. Not sure what it is used for now

St. Phillip’s is excellent. I got there when bell ringers are practicing. It is probably the only church with an open bellfry

The National trust building which houses an art gallery and cafe

A brief stop at the National trust building. They have an art gallery and a cafe which are normally open on the weekends, so I will come back another time

The observatory buildings

More observatory buildings

The north observatory. The telescope is from 2014. Not used for research anymore, just for tours. You could watch people climb on the bridge

Observatory hill is my next stop. It is an excellent place, but they could do so much more with the space. Lots of empty rooms, not much information on the things they have

The view when you come in. This is the old kitchen area

The well. It would have been hand dug, but with a metal tube to support the walls until it could be stabilised

The actual kitchen with fire place

Old marbles, mostly ceramic but some had bits of glass

Parbury Ruins was my next stop. I had no idea that this existed. An 1820s cottage that had been discovered in 2000 when building apartments above. not often open to the public.

I have so many questions. A deer head mounted on the wall of a balcony.

Bonus deer head on a balcony

Pier 8/9 where the studio is located

Metro mood boards

Why do offices use these steps as gathering spaces? Wildly uncomfortable, my current offices also has them

Hassel Studio is an architect firm that seems to do metro stations. Also in one of the old stores on Walsh bay

The actual dance studio

A hall way. It frustrated me that the hanging things did not line up with the point of the chevron on the floor

Bangarra Dance Studios has gorgeous views of the harbour and were keen to tell me about being able to hire it as a venue space

I’m pretty sure this was in between the sailors house and the metcalfe building. I like the contrast of the water slides and the buildings

Create NSW, the former Metcalfe Bond stores. I forgot to grab photos for this one. Old storehouse that has been renovated into offices. Creative NSW manages a lot of the creative venue space in the city of Sydney

The front of the sailor house

The view from the top floor. This use to be divided into small sleeping spaces

An excellent black chandelier

Next stop is the Former Sydney Sailor’s home, a place where sailors could stay when not on board. It was used until the 1970s, then it was an arcade, now an event space

The front of Gannon house

The view from one of the windows

Next up is Gannon house. Built by a former convict, then builder it is in the rocks area and now a gallery.

Outside of the museum of contemporary art ( the old part)

The foundation hall with lots of green marble

An excellent chandelier that kind of looks like an upside down pine tree

Sydney open today! First stop if Sydney museum to pick up my wrist band, then on to the museum of contemporary art foundation hall.

A middle-aged white man in a dark suit seated next to Cookie Monster. They are both wearing poppies for remembrance of WWI. I believe that Cookie was a key advisor to Field Marshal Haig.

As November approaches, never forget that the BBC pinned a poppy on Cookie Monster.

"YPRES MAKE COOKIE MONSTER SAD. NO COOKIES AT SOMME."

This is just to say
I have stolen
the jewels
that were in
the Louvre

and which
you were probably
planning
to display for centuries

Forgive me
they were exquisite
so sparkly
and so priceless