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Women in the distance on Murray's Beach, Jervis Bay

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Tag: glorious sydney

Posted on July 7, 2025July 6, 2025

Sydney in winter

June 2025

A work virtual walk-a-thon, combined with many many early morning meetings, was a chance to see Glorious Sydney in winter:

Sydney dawn from Pyrmont Anzac Bridge at sunset Barangaroo before dawn, from Pyrmont Dew on grass, Roxelle Parklands Dew on seedheads, Rozelle Parklands Early morning sun on palm fronts, Rozelle Parklands Clouds above the Bay Run Pyrmont and Barangaroo at dusk Crown Tower windows

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Posted on January 7, 2024July 6, 2025

Hideous Sydney, 2023

February & June 2023

Disproportionately featuring Crown Tower.

A photograph just before dawn of Darling Island and Barangaroo, with the Barangaroo skyscrapers still lit for the night, and pink and purple clouds striped over the sky A photograph of the Barangaroo skyscrapers lit yellow by the last of the sun, with Darling Island already in the dark Photograph of a lone cyclist ascending Anzac Bridge cyclepath from the east, in front of the bridge tower and cables and the setting sun Photograph of Iron Cove before dawn, with pink clouds behind the cityscape and a single foursome doing rowing training Rowing on Iron Cove before dawn Photograph of Iron Cove before dawn, with pink clouds behind the cityscape and a single twosome doing rowing training accompanied by a coaching boat

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  • Roos
  • Tamarama to Bondi walk (Sculptures by the Sea)

Popular

  • The Ada Initiative’s sunset
  • Rideau Lakes & southern Ontario
  • Terry Pratchett's "I Shall Wear Midnight"
  • Mourning the Squeezebox
  • Sunday spam: porridge and honey

Reads

  • One Situation After Another
  • What is breastfeeding aversion and how can you manage it?
  • Have astronomers found a runaway monster black hole? | Scientific American
  • Why are there no fish in the deepest deep sea? | Deep Sea News
  • Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite
  • The Babies Kept in a Mysterious Los Angeles Mansion | The New Yorker

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Listens

  • Part One: How Jeffrey Epstein Helped Build the Modern World
  • Part One: Christmas Hero Episode: Aaron Swartz
  • Part One: How Cigarettes Invented Everything
  • Episode 152 Hemochromatosis: Ironing out the details – This Podcast Will Kill You
  • The Birth Keepers: I choose this – episode one | Childbirth | The Guardian
  • Elon Musk

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Books

  • Stag Dance, by Torrey Peters
  • Cinder House, by Freya Marske
  • The Mushroom Tapes: Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial, by Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein
  • Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
  • Assembly, by Natasha Brown

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