Yes, one big block to finish this series!
23. At Surry Hills Shopping Village — December 2009
24. Passing Parade, Surry Hills — March 2009
Monthly Archives: December 2009
My favourites from 2009: 17 – Sirdan’s party
Taken at Rosebery in August, published 30 October.
My favourites from 2009: 16
This seems appropriate for Christmas Day. It’s from 28 December. The shop is in Baptist Street, East Redfern.
In 2009 people came to Floating Life after searching for…
- angels 2,619 visits
- english tests with answers 2,083
- serenity prayer 1,357
- conflicting perspectives 504
- english test with answers 458
- migraine aura 409
- nude children 369
- wilhelm von gloeden 269
- golf polo 260
- most interesting blogs 254
- orientalist paintings 251
- von gloeden 246
- young lesbian 221
- conservapedia is a joke 207
- how good is your english 202
- felix mendelssohn 188
- orientalist art 176
- angel kiss 173
- kiss 166
- bill henson 144
My favourites from 2009: 13 – Aunty Beryl
“Aunty” is a term of respect for an Aboriginal elder. I interviewed Aunty Beryl in October for the South Sydney Herald. Hers is an inspiring story.
My favourites from 2009: 12 – Winter Solstice
Taken from near Museum Station, looking south.
Looking north.
Elizabeth Street runs from near Circular Quay south. It is one of three main north-south streets, the others being Pitt and George.
Summer Solstice – transitional doublepost
Frequently Unasked Questions
1. What does that title mean?
Well, that’s the date here in Surry Hills, and it marks the turning of the year. It’s transitional too between Floating Life and Neil’s Second Decade. It’s a doublepost because it appears on both blogs.
2. Why are you starting yet another blog?
Reviewing the decade of blogging for the twelve Blogging the Noughties posts several things struck me.
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I found myself re-presenting personal posts in the main and decided future blogging might be lighter than Floating Life has sometimes been.
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A decade seems to have a kind of shape to it; ending Floating Life now seemed better than just going on “forever”.
3. So the new blog will be trivial?
Not entirely. Just lighter.
4. Aren’t you assuming something in the new blog’s title?
It’s true I reach my three-score and ten in the coming decade. Who knows what the future holds?
5. What can we expect on the new blog?
Who knows? Book reviews, of course. I am tossing around a Mary Mackillop post at the moment.
6. What about the National Library?
As some of you know, Floating Life is now archived at the National Library in Canberra. Whether the new one is remains to be seen, but the link to it will be archived at least.
7. What should your regular readers do?
Adjust their links and feeds, I hope. 🙂
8. What have you done to coordinate your blogs?
The only public blogs that will be ongoing are Neil’s Second Decade, Neil’s Sydney Photo Blog, and English/ESL. The first two will have a feed each to the other prominently displayed in their side bars. They also have matching “skins”. On Neil’s Second Decade (which has only two extra pages) there is a page listing all my blogs back to 2000 with month-by-month archive links.
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