At the Mall this August

The camera batteries are being recharged!

Have you noticed this at the mall?

One of the vacant ground levels stores now has APPLE on the outside.
Is Hornsby finally getting a APPLE store!?

New cupcake store on the basement level!
Lovely store design!

The magnolia season is over! Petals are shedding and being replaced with bright green leaves!

Shingle Cafe Opening soon! Oh yes westfield of course the mall needs another cafe especially in a spot where once there were FREE seats for tired shoppers who didnt feel like buying coffee!

Be interested to see how long they survive the competition with Tea for Two being next door?!

Finally what's unsettling the local burra clan?
My avian visitors keep sitting on hte railing and staring into the distance.
Is there an impending turf war for spring nesting sites approaching?

Dear Bruce Lyon

Dear Bruce unfortunately your family name is not Wayne otherwise you'ld probably being doing the right and philahthropic thing and donating a certain patch of land? Which piece of land? Yes Bruce I'm talking about that over valued vacant lot in Dural street that you or some one you represent owns and has left vacant for a couple of years now!

Yes readers the developer behind Inspire Planning and Dural Nominees appears to be Bruce Lyon.

see http://www.brucelyon.com.au/

his office is in Epping and his firm has Facebook and Twitter sites!

Apparently though he has no female relatives in the CWA?

Bruce I seriously doubt a couple of cafes are going to create a lot of employment opportunities and regarding housing ... yes another 22 storey strata title building may possibly create housing for people with upper middle classes wages but not for actual workers?

Unless perhaps you were going to donate some of the tower space as affordable housing?

Bruce after this week's stories in the Advocate and the Bush Telegraph if you really still want this development in any form I suggest you

a) donate floor space for a new home for the CWA and other community organizations

b) donate another vacant property for a temporary home for the CWA and other groups

c) reduce the height of that tower block

d) be very very very polite to the CWA  remember all of them and the many other groups who use that building have many friends and relatives living in the Hornsby area.

Tiny Citizen

Today the sun is out and if unlike me you don't have to tend to drying clothes washing perhaps you've gone for a walk and spotted some of Hornsby's tiniest citizens sunning themselves? Enjoy!

Absentee Landlords

Absentee Landlords.  Like Dural Nominees?
Is this what is behind the Westside problems?
And the several vacant properties I've seen in Hornsby?

Hornsby residents who read the Advocate hopefully noticed the page 3 story on Inspire Planning and Dural Nominees.

Well I googled them. Dural Nominees are registered in WA?

I wonder who really owns them and how many other vacant properties they own in Hornsby?

Much as I would like to see buildings and housing in Hornsby not built by Meriton I'm sure a 22 storey building right next to Hornsby Park doesnt solve anyone's problems?

This plan certianly explains why there's an entire ART DECO style bank building that could be converted to a shop or gallery or a community arts centre near the corner of Dural Lane.

Have Heritage buildings converted for community use such as a new home for the CWA?

Nah not when over priced condo units with high rentals could go there and add to the impending destruction of large chunks of Hornsby Park!

Shame on you Dural Nominees!

Look down at Your Feet!

Do you ever look down at the footpath? Obviously don't do this in rush hour but take the time if the footpath's not crowded to look at the cracks and crevisses and the contrast between the plants and pavement? sometimes you'll just see weeds. Other times maybe a moment of beauty?

My entry for the digital photo competition recently held by Hornsby Council.

Burrawatch

Ever had that feeling you're being watched? Well it may not be a magpie with nesting psychosis about to swoop down on you ! It may be one of the local Burra Boys! They love a high vantage point!

The Burras have gotten used to my attempts to photograph them and will let me get within 5 or 6 feet!

Enjoy!

What Dural Lane Access?

Some People seem to be under the impressions Dural Lane runs all the way to the swimming pool?

Sorry folks but that's NOT a solution not unless Council owns this vacant lot and can include the cost of draining and leveling this area ?

Anyone know who does own this piece of land?

Whatever option is used part of Hornsby park will have to be destroyed !

Let's just hop the CWA is rehoused in a decent office / room while the rebuilding goes on!