Sydney Hobart Yacht Race

It was a beautiful, windy day for the start of the annual Sydney to Hobart yacht race. In a very fast time of 5 mins from the start, supermaxi Wild Oats XI (left) was out of The Heads, followed not long after by Ragamuffin Loyal (right). The entire fleet had rounded the buoy and were headed south in 17 minutes.

Television

iphone 4S 17 Dec 2012

Back in "the day" (well and truly before my day...) people used to gather in front of electrical shop windows to watch that marvellous new-fangled gadget, the (cathode ray) television.

TV came to Australia in 1956, in time for the Mebourne Olympics. Colour arrived on 1 March, 1975. In 2012 there's a whole new world of web-integrated TV, HD, LED, LCD, SmartTV, Blue-Ray, gaming, WIFI.....

And ion the 6th floor of the Myer department store in Sydney, you can settle back on a comfy leather sofa to contemplate the cricket, and your next purchase.

Crazy tree

I can't remember what this tree is called. Any help gratefully received!

Oasis

A sunny little park in Surry Hills

Back lane, Surry Hills

Arncliffe station



A splendid piece of Victoriana in Sydney's inner south

 Taken on iPhone 4S

Janet and James



Taken on iPhone 4S



Two of my favourite Sydney-siders play and sing jazz together tonight.
James Valentine: radio broadcaster, musician and writer, and Janet Seidel: singer, pianist, teacher.

Theme Day - My Street



Taken on iPhone 4S 11pm

 Completley forgot about theme day, so I rushed out into the middle of my street a moment ago. It's a pretty non descript suburban street - individual cottages, some trees along the nature strip, cars parked outside house. The best thing about my street however is the corner shop....so many places have lost their all-purpose corner shops, or never had them. Feel a chocolate craving at 9pm - corner shop! Need milk for breakfast - corner shop! Forgot an ingredient for tonight's dinner - corner shop!