New  building on the corner of Stewart Avenue, fan shaped it suites the fan shaped corner.  Signs point to a car wash but that can't be correct! Although a poppet head was installed there as a reminder of the past then we moved on again.  

Peoples Climate March near you next weekend 

We are surrounded by windy stormy rainy weather.
 Never before have I heard of as much destruction in the Hunter as regards uprooted trees, downed power lines, loss of power supply, loss of phone services, roof and fences, schools and institutions closing their doors but no real flooding in the suburbs but flooding of the towns and roads of the hinterland.  
A dreaded east coast low, a Pasha Bulka storm, quite a change from the benign.
Council workers and chain saws soon opened the road again.

Digging up the Road lead to a detour yesterday. It was all go as the house on the corner was under renovation as well. They're digging a hole in the road  is another likable song for children from ABC media.
  Now, the dialogue in Peppa Pig, for instance, is from real voices that have good enunciation even if they have a nice distinct accent.
 Why do most other cartoon characters on TV sound stupid and shout?    How do the neural networks under formation in a tiny child process the bizarre offerings ?
 Shock horror.  Peter Rabbit on you tube bereft of UK English. The very essence of a show is lost in any remake.
Thankfully we are adaptable to offerings from all over the world and don't need remakes.
Bananas in PJs has become unaustralian in the hands of overseas artists, the outdoors do not reflect our scene at all, the cartoon has simply gone generic. 
Hope we don't eventually dumb down on a generic diet.

Last photo is of random drug testing unit.   

What does this say in words disguising a Pasha Bulker image?  That is one interpretation. Took some time to even get this photo.  

Inspired by the Pasha B - in a street in Wickham , aground in a forest with details.
This morning, ABC radio played the wonderful hit, Vespers for the Blessed Virgin by Monterverdi. Hear a good version on utube.
What is left to inspire a composer these days? Old beliefs are out. What will they glory about or strive to reach the heights of expression? Some say its all been done. Thats it.     

Getting on towards spring time? See the dandelines all around unless the council mowers get there first. Outside the fish markets Wickham area.

 Again in the precinct of Wickham. More trees less coal.

 Yet another coal mine is given the ok. A proposed fourth coal loader is loved and hated and feared by citizens.

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 In the mini suburb of Wickham
What would I know about the federal budget?

Pass the budget or else, we hear. Higher taxes are threatened.  Instead, the solution is to fix the budget and present a budget that is fair.  It is not either or.

 Union Steam Ship Company Watt Street Newcastle. Of course, that company has gone finis.
Low-Rise. Newcastle won't be in the running with Dubai and the like - and that's AOK.

Court Chambers on King and Bolton streets.

This could be a  perfect day for airing and washing doonas and blankets. Brisk and chilly but sunny. Could have prepared for winter before this - better later than never!
Spell check on this site can't deal with the word doonas. What's needed is a local edition of spell check.

This corner of Hunter street looks terrible.  The tennants will have to do better than this right at the entrance to the mall.  And the hugh marbles have been removed from the mall.

A closer look at a windmill  and a unique shelter in main street Charters Towers Hughenden. Queenslandicius.  The horse trough is another feature.

King Street Newcastle

Ich bin ein Novocastrian.
Cooks Hill street.

 Sunday Sunset

The ocean drive remains closed to traffic as it has been for an eternity. Falling rocks.  Strangly, it is good enough for cyclists and joggers and that's nice. Forget about unlimited access – it is not going to happen.

In a similar spot down the south coast, a stretch of road out over the rock platforms is very trendy.

Another project to shore up Elizabeth Street Tighes Hill was completed in record time - once it was started which had been looking doubtful.

Rome wasn't built in a day. For years, Newcomen Street was half closed-up along an old fence line that probably became unstable and required sorting out and, at long last, a new fence has been unveiled. A remnant of brick work, unearthed during a building project, part of a very old structure, is displayed on the corner. Perhaps the new bricks match up with the colonial bricks. Hope this government property is not ready for a trade off with the developers. 

It just doesn't do to hear mumurings about the world's greatest democracy (yesterday comment) or revelations about what's behind all the razzamatazz. We hadn't noticed! Just imagine, all that and more is possible when we become a republic.

City lane.

 'Bin there done that.

Vocab: Bin...rubbish bin...trash can....garbage bin...wheelie bin.

 Regulatory photos from Civic park towards Laman Street.

 Surely this is the architectural style that is enjoying a reappearance.  This type of entrance with the rectangular structure to the fore is seen everywhere.

Towards Laman Street post fig trees, today.  Seems ok without trees planted as an avenue  The division of Laman street from the park below, by a line of trees, may be undesirable, when the area could be continuous using wide, broad, cleared steppes sweeping up to Laman street.  Would that mean more use of perpendicular lines?
  

Mighty trees line one side of Maitland Road, Islington, while on the other side much younger trees grow in a shape that nicely suits the situation.  With leaves that fall in summer along the edge of the park the trees make an impressive line up although all that litter is probably a bit of a problem for some people nearby.

Apart from this, the giant mature red cedar tree is buttressed like these when seen in the few specimens that remain and is one of the few indigenous trees that are deciduous. Aparently cedars can be grown easily enough.