Bond Store

Earp Gillam Bond store 1888 Newcastle East. Another from Frederick Menkins.

Word play

Ineffable: unmoved when confronted by bad language.

Sincere: truly burn in hell.

Insinuate: to eat while making love.(SMH)

Blackbutt

Simple scene but it stops you in your tracks. 

Words. Buffalo: a nudists' greeting.  Syndrome: very large brothel.(SMH)

Footie

Grand Final night. Panthers v Rabbitohs  . Two Sydney Rugby League teams meet in Brisbane because of a lockdown in Sydney. Restrained celebrations are envisaged. Panthers is favourite. Close game.

Sponsor advert: "T Australia is why"  ??

"Not happy Jan" was an old ad from Telstra.  Look how far we've come with the "why" ad.

Panthers advertise Oak Dairy which originated in Hexham near Newcastle. The latest owner is a French company.

Red bellied black snake was run over and was unlikely to survive. The snake's bite is rather troublesome. No fatalities are recorded. Is said to be unaggressive unless provoked. 

Down to the wire

Bridon and Bekaert, Mayfield East. A global manufacturer of wire rope for multiple industrial purposes. 

A noteworthy brick construction with a saw tooth factory attached. 

 Wire making began in 1925 and BHP, OneSteel, MolyCop are roughly a succession of connections in Newcastle before now.

 The present day company of Bridon has links with an institution in Ontario and WRI has HQ in Montreal while Bekaert harks back to Belgium and the UK.

 Lost track of identification of any local owners.

State of politics

 

Gladys Berejiklian visited Hamilton during her time as Minister for Transport. For years she served the state and became a significant leader that was way ahead of most other leaders.   She strove with determination to 'keep us in line' during the pandemic.

Harbour side

Next time a casual photographer gets near here it will probably have a high rise.

Birth

The ship's berth is way ahead and into a channel. A rainbow is a welcoming sign. Akin to a birth the ship rotates as the tug boats push and pull it through the limited space.

Pan Margaret has a length of 292 metres and carrying capacity of 180705 t. Coal is loaded during a 24hr visit. It took 14 days to sail here from South Korea.

Even Keel

A fisher a paddleboard and a bulk carrier Pan Margaret.  Do we like to keep on an even keel? 

The Koel has returned this week. A loud persistant call annouces the arrival of the bird from S E Asia.

Bounty

Yellow cauli and companions at the market.

Universal energies

Behold creation!  As in sacred scenes of old, rays of heavenly light transformed our view, after all it was Sunday morning! Brooding and glorious. 

Acknowledgment of country

Freight

Stop press stop press.  Josh said "Climate Change".  

Scomo is O/S.  What will Barnaby say?

Freight-unpleasant emotion experienced by a posh matron

Sun-shiny shower

Ignore what's behind you and avoid what's ahead. (On a hired motor bike overseas)

TALIBAN - radical organization advocating the outlawing of statistics.

Bigger Picture

Earthquake currently recorded in Victoria as the rousing Zadoc the Priest by Handel accompanied the view this morning. Can't complain about that. Thanks ABC radio. Rivalled by Vaughan Williams. Then the mood changed with Katheen Ferrier who brings a cloud. 

 A lot of white water and rough surf was seen along the string of beaches, breezy, cool and one board rider while exercising was very popular.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood...

Besides the harbour....

Customs House clock tower. Opposite end has a railway shed as a useful shelter.  Imagine a big old smokey power house nearby. Imagine a railway shunting yard all round here. Shock horror, cars drove over the rail lines almost how they liked. 

        We cant live in the past but the past lives on in us 

Harbour for sure

Photo 2 of same area has Zaara Street Power House in the distance. It can be seen with imagination!  The tug boats are berthed.

Sabbath

 During the week, it was announced that Bishop Bill Wright of the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle, is dying of lung cancer.  He is always a thoughtful and moderate spokesperson.

Out of our Depth

 

Rainbow Warrior II in Newcastle

The position is aired that Newcastle is a nuclear-free zone. 

 The die is cast over the defense alliance with the US and a new fleet of submarines with nuclear power.  French suppliers were shunned. Recall with fear, sacrebleu, the sinking of the original Rainbow Warrior in Operation Satanique by French operatives in New Zealand. The Greenpeace vessel was on a mission to protest against French nuclear testing in the South Pacific.