Alison Lyons: August 2008

Palmiers

La Promenade Patisserie makes these mini Palmiers every Thursday morning. We go there for coffee on our way to work for an Almond Croissant and a Cappuccino. Sometimes the aroma of burnt butter is too seductive and we have to buy a box of Palmiers to go. I am having one now with my afternoon tea. ;o)

We never met

John Donne

LOVE’S USURY.

FOR every hour that thou wilt spare me now,
I will allow,
Usurious god of love, twenty to thee,
When with my brown my gray hairs equal be.
Till then, Love, let my body range, and let
Me travel, sojourn, snatch, plot, have, forget,
Resume my last year’s relict; think that yet
We’d never met.

:: BONDI ::

Stan

Air Traffic Control Tower

Delphiniums blue

SAD THINGS

Object #16

Object #15

Object #14

Object #13

This pair of statues originated in Africa during the Boer War. They were brought to Australia and purchased about 30 years ago. They are close to 100 years old we believe.

Object #12

The Argyle Cut

The Argyle Cut was hewn by convicts through the sandstone ridge of The Rocks to connect Sydney Cove with Darling Harbour and Millers Point. It was started in 1843 by convicts with hammers and chisels, and completed in 1867 with the help of explosives. For some time until 1900 it was the underground home of thugs, petty gangsters and rats.

Later, as part of the building of the Bradfield Highway in the 1920s, the Argyle Cut was widened and construction was completed in 1932. The Bradfield Highway forms the approach to the Sydney Harbour Bridge over Argyle Cut.