Saturday 22 January 2011

Sydney or the bush?


A bucolic scene right at Thames Street ferry wharf (on Sydney Harbour) in Balmain.
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4 comments:

  1. Kate22 January, 2011 13:36

    During our summer, the greenery becomes so commonplace, but now during -15 degree weather, I long for a scene such as this!!

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  2. Hels22 January, 2011 16:33

    Up until the 1950s and 1960s, when people didn't know exactly what was going to happen but they launched into the activity anyhow, they always announced "OK, it is Sydney or the Bush!!"

    I don't hear the expression these days, but I wonder where it came from.

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  3. Julie23 January, 2011 20:51

    It is the two extremes of anything and started by acknowledging Sydney to be urbane and sophisticated, whereas the bush was hicksville.

    You would probably get a blood nose it you used that connotation nowadsys.

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  4. heidi24 January, 2011 09:15

    So beautiful! Keep up the wonderful photos. It brings hope to those all embedded in the cold winter in the northern hemisphere.

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