A Hoi Hoi

A few weeks back P and I did a bit of a tour of Historic Houses in Sydney trying to knock a few things of The List. First up was lovely Elizabeth Bay House.

The main reason why it has taken me so long to put this one up is because I didn't know what to write really and didn't think I could properly explain the history of the houses, I'll let the photos do the talking. There are great views from both houses and the Historic Houses Trust always do well with their museums with furnishing their houses and the staff are always informative.

A marble bust of Macleay in in the library, he doesn't often have a knitted rat on his head it was part of an art installation throughout some of the museums in Sydney.

 

Each room is furnished as it may have been when it was originally built, with separate rooms for Husband and Wife, reading rooms and foyer for greeting guests. Elizabeth Bay House changed hands many times and was an artists commune in the 70's where the rooms were split and squatters moved in. 

About a 20 minute drive from Elizabeth Bay House is Vaucluse House. The house doesn't have an entrance to the museum as such, you come up the side of the property and go through this little shed thing (more of a building really) so the start of the tour is from the kitchen. This is because of the way the house evolved from a small house consisting of the main living area then with add-ons to the mansion today.

 

Money ran a little short towards the end of the build. looking towards the staircase. Marble busts of Will Wentworth and his wife Sarah are positioned where the front entrance would have been, looking to the grand stairwell.

 

Main living area which was the only part of the house when originally built.

People had a fair amount of time to create elaborate things of out shells.

Two more places off The List. I'll probably go back to both houses again. We only caught a bit of the tour at Elizabeth Bay House and we forgot to see The Grotto!. 

 

Also, Macleay (Elizabeth Bay House) and Wentworth (Vaucluse House) have buildings named after them at Sydney University for the science-y type work and their houses were kind of rivals at the time. Apparently they would not have been all buddy buddy though because Wentworth was born out of wedlock and his wife was a commoner. I think Vaucluse House was better though, mainly because of the history of the building and you can see how much it changed as the family changed.

- A

Save Some For Me, It's What I Like

Firstly, really wish I did a better job of the Foo Fighters post. So many more people came over because of that post and when I read it back I realised how nonchalant I prob sounded. I think because I did have such an awesome time I thought I would sound like an idiot gushing so much. I had also spoken about it many many many times before I came to write the post. Bad form on my part. 

Have been chugging along, not really taking many photos of late. My Internship is keeping me fairly busy. I'm with a reseach company and they do some market research with food stuff and why people do/don't like certain food. I managed to score a cheap box of corn flakes that was going to take me ages to get through.

So I made Honey Joys! Look at all that sugar.The only way A can stomach Corn Flakes.

- A

Foo Fighters!

Things will forever be Before FF and After FF now. I was one of the lucky few (900) that scored tickets to the Foo Fighters secret show at the Manning Bar at University of Sydney on 25th March. It has taken me more than a week to put up the photos from the Foo Fighters Manning Bar secret gig and I still can't believe that it actually happened.

I found out about the secret gig about 15 mins before they went on sale which was lucky as I was only down the road from one of the two places which were selling the tickets (HUM). Only had to line up for about an hour but the whole time I was stressed that I was going to be the first person to miss out.

Dave calls out my friend Fi for yawning during one of the songs off the new album. He says maybe if he can pleasure her with his mouth she will be able to stay awake. Then sings Up In Arms.

It was a fairly epic day. I had worked in the morning (4am to 9am) so was pretty tired when I found out about the tickets sale and then had one of those odd sleeps where you don't know if you dreamt or if you did do the things you thought.

I intended to write this huge story of how fantastic the gig was and everything but the words don't really seem to be coming. Almost like what I am saying about it is kinda 'meh' but what I'm intending to say is more like 'Whoa'.

I got to see Foo Fighters play for 2.5 hours in a Uni bar with only about 900 other people and stand 5 rows, don't know what else I could say beside a combination of a Keanu "Whoa" and Joey a "Whoa".

- A