See also Some non-fiction read recently: 2a.
This goes back to 2005 and a particularly interesting if controversial event. On the day I was not there, as I had to attend a meeting of ESL teachers at Erskineville – or was it Arncliffe, one of the last such meetings for me as I retired the following [...]
Archive for the ‘Salt Mine’ Category
20 Apr
Some non-fiction read recently 2b – the personal component
14 Apr
50 years on – 1: a classmate’s story
While looking for a photo from around 1960 for Memorabilia 17 – Sydney University: Fisher Library c.1960, today’s post on a reviving Ninglun’s Specials and Memory Hole, I came upon a classmate from the class of 1959 at Sydney High. (See also Memorabilia 16 – 50 years on.)
Peter Deli and I were in a number [...]
27 Mar
Revisited The Mine, after a senior moment…
Yesterday I went to The Mine, partly to borrow a copy of Equus. Unfortunately (the senior moment) I ran off with the English Department’s book room key, which I have now returned.
Out in Moore Park was one of those multicultural sights that warms the heart – mine anyway. There was the brass band (non-cadet) marching [...]
24 Mar
Strange and sad
Such were my feelings as I watched this last night:
Back in 2007 I had mentioned the key events before: Sydney Boys High School 1955.
The god-like Fifth Form students — High School only went to Year 11 then — included quite a few who became, well, god-like figures…
One of THE most god-like to us in [...]
25 Feb
Fifty years on – guess what, nothing is for ever!
There’s not much wrong with sport over all at my old school (class of 1959) and former work-place, as a glance at the current High Notes shows. But guess what: sport isn’t everything, and I know the English Department was rather chuffed when SBHS outperformed Sydney Grammar in English in the HSC last year… [...]
26 Nov
And that is as far as you get…
Called over to M’s this morning…
…and this is on his door, but that is as far as we go.
Then I went to SBHS, not far away, just as a social call. But I thought I would collect something for Jim Belshaw…
I also caught a bit of Old Sydney for Ninglun’s Specials, but you [...]
29 Jun
Papal Surry Hills July 2008
Residents in Surry Hills — World Youth Day Co-ordination Authority: the map (PDF) and details arrived in our letter boxes this morning. I am thinking of setting up a stall for my holy relics…
Which reminds me of an earlier Papal Visit in 1986, a scene from which you may see here:
1 Apr
australian daily: Such a disappointing day for High today
Is this what Delenio had in mind with that question at Yum Cha?
17 Mar
The Mine and the Islamists: cause for concern?
This back link to last year is vital background to what follows. Naturally the links therein to Diary-X no longer work, but I will shortly post the relevant items on my Angelfire blog and reset the links.* The gist: the article above discusses the visit by some interesting people to my former place of work. [...]
4 Mar
Mardi Gras
Too old and tired to bother much this year, so let’s recycle a bit of the “lost” diaries:
February 10 2001: Mardi Gras Reflections Part 1
Last night Mardi Gras was launched at the Sydney Opera House. I did not go myself, but many did. In Chinatown today I could not help noticing the tourist wave has [...]
28 Feb
Mitchell Seow
There are still people coming here looking for information about the Sydney High student Mitchell Seow who died suddenly on 14 January 2006: see my January 2006 archive. Mitchell was in the debating team I supervised in Years 7 and 8. High Notes that reprinted a lovely article that appeared a short while ago, though [...]
20 Feb
Today Tonight on 7: Shock Crisis Scumbag Betrayal of OUR Kids Horror
The Shock Crisis Scumbag Betrayal of OUR Kids Horror of the moment on this flagship of manifestly declined standards in Australian television “journalism” — the mix of microstories tonight was as bizarre as anything on Frontline — is an education panic story tantamount to an infomercial (is that the correct spelling of this nonce-word?) on [...]
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