lazy sunday..

[darren_stranger]

A relaxing day today.

After finishing the washing to the sounds of Rancid and Mighty Mighty Bosstones (lamenting the lack of real ska and reggae in my CD collection) and rearranging concrete statues in the back yard, i wandered down to Brunswick Street where i sat around outside a cafe for a bit, listening to a jazz band who were playing inside.

Then i went for a stroll along Greeves Street, looking at the delightful old buildings along there (definitely one of my favourite Fitzroy streets). All that fussing about with concrete statues made me notice and appreciate all the spheres, faces, urns and other ornaments of that period even more than usual. A little longer sitting at Brunswick Street, checking out the buildings more than the people, then it was time to come home and do some letterboxing, with still more opportunity for perving at gorgeous Victorian houses.

God i love this part of town.

Comments

[hestia.livejournal.com]

I love it too. God I miss living there.

[velvetclaw.livejournal.com]

Living in Footscray now, I say nooothing! (*sigh*) Miss the inner city something shocking. I am living beyond the tram network for the first time in my life! (since coming from the country at 12). It's the one things I really don't like about living here. (The plus is all the birdies and resultant song and chirpings around here)

I'm lucky enough to have an architect for a friend. - Rohan - who I was going to spend a gay boy's New Year's Eve with, when I saw you guys on the tram on N.Y.E??? National Trust. We walk or drive anywhere, and I get a running lecture on anything interesting we pass. I just wish I could remember it all! oh boy, he gets rude about those "1990's type" geometrical and coloured apartments that have gone up around the Fitzroy - and other inner city - areas. He's weird tho., He likes 1960's architecture!

He's just published "200 historical sites in Melbourne CBD" (or similiar), available through the National Trust, launched at the Town Hall just recently. I'm glad it's finished, coz he was doing an awful lot of swearing about final editing, and getting all the photos in the right order for the last few months! *grin* Poor thing - he couldn't see the final copy before the actual launch, coz of the printers' timing, and was a tad nervous! - 3 years work! And with CFS!

Not that I'm flogging a friend's work, or anything.
But you might find it interesting.......

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Sounds interesting. Even after 15 years in Melbourne, i'm always noticing gorgeous old buildings in the city (though to date nothing has topped the old City of Melbourne building on Elizabeth and Little Collins as my favourite). Just Friday i noticed for the first time how ornate the old CAE building on DeGraves and Flinders is. i'd never spotted the huge classical statue and other details at the top before - always rushing across the intersection to get home or to some shop.

I'd love to have time to delve into the history of various older areas of Melbourne. A few months back i went to the Museum with my folks and was fascinated by a display they had about the Little Londsdale Street area which was the slum / red light district back in the mid 19th century (?). It's hard to think of what's now the CBD once being a city in its own right, complete with 'good' and 'bad' neighbourhoods. I imagine Fitzroy would have quite a colourful history, being Squizzy Taylor territiry and all.

Oh, for the time to sit and read up on all this stuff (yeah, i know, careful what you wish for).

[strang-er.livejournal.com]

Is it Preston you're in now?. Guess you can still wander around and look at the older neighbourhoods - just have to go there especially, maybe as a suburb you visit for pleasure, which is what St Kilda and Prahran are for me.

If and when we have to move out of this house, we probably won't be able to afford another place in this suburb, so it'll become a visiting spot for us too. Hope it's not for a long time (touch wood, touch wood) because i like the house we're in, as well as the idea of living in my mum's old neighbourhood (we're right round the corner from where she used to live, though that house is long sonce gone).

[hestia.livejournal.com]

Wow. Growing up in that area must have been a trip! I'd like to provide that for William.

We live in Resevoir now. It's closer to La Trobe Uni, and since we know the landlady we've got a good deal in that I doubt we could get a house with a position like this right next door to Edwards Lake if it were offerred through a real estate agent.

The area is okaaaaaay, but Heath keeps getting "Fag!" yelled at him from teenage hoons. It's funny but inspite of being mugged in Fitzroy I'm sure he feels safer there than here.