Media thread - 21 September 2023, 11:13

A wide-angle photo taken from George St in Sydney. There's tram tracks running down the street, tall buildings on either side, and a nice big green tree at the left. It's delightfully sunny and the sky is blue.

I'm in the city today for the first of SEVEN consecutive weekdays. This is going to be weird!

(We've got a full org-wide team event where we've flown everyone in from all over the globe.)

Posted on 21 September 2023, 11:13

A photo of a bowl of laksa in a white takeaway food bowl. The broth is thick and rich and it's got slices of barbecue pork sitting atop the noodles.

First lunch of the office week: laksa. 😎

sydney work food portrait mode laksa

Posted on 21 September 2023, 13:29

A photo of a big lazy susan with all sorts of delicious Chinese food on it: dumplings, pork buns, noodles, chicken feet, etc. (I did not have any of the chicken feet.)

Day two lunch: work-paid-for yum cha.

In related news, I am VERY full right now.

sydney work food yum cha dumplings

Posted on 22 September 2023, 15:35

A photo of the spiced halloumi pizza, which is actually Turkish pide with a tomato sauce inside it and strips of halloumi and what I think was sun-dried tomato.

A photo of triangular stand in the middle of the table, with three levels and little nibbly desert things on it. There's some Turkish delight, some pastry thing, a couple of little bits of cheese cake, and a piece of chocolate something or other that I had and was delicious.

Nothing exciting to report food-wise yesterday, but today's paid-for-by-work food was dinner at Meccah Bah at Darling Harbour.

Because there were 39 of us all up (!) we did the $79 set menu. The starters were the bread and trio of tips, falafels, lamb sigara boureks, and North African meatballs, we could choose which main we wanted (I got the spiced halloumi pizza) and then we got a selection of desserts to share.

The whole meal was absolutely incredible and I am stuffed to the gills right now. I also had my first margarita because several people expressed surprised that I'd not had one before. It was... fine, but definitely reinforced my stance of not paying for cocktails if I'm paying for it because MAN are they not worth it. 😛

sydney work pizza food portrait mode

Posted on 26 September 2023, 21:08

A photo looking down a lawn bowls green (very short, well-manicured grass, similar to a golf course), with a person bending down mid-bowl and a bunch of the balls already at the other end of the green close.

Today we went for a walk from Bondi to Clovelly and then played lawn bowls! I haven't played lawn bowls in so long, definitely well prior to COVID hitting. We were a bit iffy on the finer points of the scoring but I THINK we won. 😅

I also took a handful of "proper" photos on the walk and posted them to Flickr.

lightroom work people clovelly lawn bowls

Posted on 27 September 2023, 20:31

A photo of a sesame bagel sitting in a cardboard takeaway container with some cheese and sauce visible through the hole. It's hard to see in the photo but the piece of chorizo was nearly as large as the bagel and probably would have been close to a centimetre thick.

Today is the last day in the office, finished it off with a chorizo, cheese, and pickle bagel from the A.P. Bakery that opened up right around the corner from the office, and hot damn was it good. I got a croissant to have with my coffee and that was delicious as well.

work food portrait mode chorizo

Posted on 29 September 2023, 15:11