Tag Archives: Vivid

Vivid 2018: …and there are lights!

May 21, 2019 · by · in Australia, New South Wales, Sydney Diaries · 3 Comments

As my wife and I trained in Bradfield Park our eyes were fixed on the familiar sight of the Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay, an almost 5 year fixture in our lives. Except tonight it was shining a bit brighter than normlal…oh crap it’s May -> that means Vivid Festival is here. Billed as […]

TBT: Sydney Vivid 2017

December 21, 2017 · by · in Australia, New South Wales, Sydney Diaries · 8 Comments

Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera:a mystery never fully explained. We are told, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. Our workshops have repaired it and wire parts of it for the new electric light Perhaps we can frighten […]

Let there be Light!!!

August 1, 2015 · by · in Australia, New South Wales, Sydney Diaries · 2 Comments

“Perhaps we can scare away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination, gentleman!” Every May the entire city of Sydney gets out the step ladder, goes up into the loft and opens up an old cardboard box marked ‘lights’ and then drapes itself in them. I am of course referring to […]