Sunday Selections

I'm joining in with River and others for Sunday Selections.

The French are revolting and when the French revolt, they do it with style. This barbeque can run on tram tracks and therefor can be easily transported from one protest group to another. Feed them sausages, not cake. Photo by Juan Buis.

Fake I hope. How awful to be deprived of beer.

South Melbourne. Liver pills, liver salts. What was that all about? I've Googled and liver pills cured everything. Carters was the dominant brand it seems but I don't remember that brand here. My grandfather used to take Ford's Liver Pills. 

On public housing land someone or more than one person has made a little garden. It's not grand but a good effort.

The floral clock was gift to Melbourne from the watchmakers of Zurich. I've no idea why. The clock is problematic. Plantings have to be below the sweep of the hands and people keep interfering with the hands. You never know if it will be working or if it hands missing. At the moment the second hand is missing.

Sir Edward 'Weary' Dunlop was a surgeon captured in Singapore by the Japanese during WWII. He saved so many lives in the camps where the prisoners of war were so brutally treated by the Japanese. He was a great man and the sculpture is worthy and deserved. In the background was a Latin festival. I've never thought of Latins being boring, but the festival certainly was; more a gathering of food vans than an exhibition of culture. 

Who kicked the cop car door in?

Remember the 'dangerous' playground? The rocks are real.

Quite a good job really of making what was once a traffic sewer into a much more pleasant area.

How many cockatoos does it take to make a flock?

This green slime rubbish atop Storey Hall has been there for years. It really need to be removed.

Last Sunday was (gay) Pride March. Trams in Fitzroy Street where the march happens did not run for several hours with the exception of the not in service Pride Tram. I never knew what a moquette was until a few years ago. It is the patterned and tough fabric used for public transport seating. This drag queen dress is one of the moquettes used in one of our tram models. Photo by Yarra Trams.