A couple of months ago, we passed this pre-loved wooden tricycle near the corner of Rosebank Street and Farrell Avenue, Darlinghurst.

Today I spied it with the garbage bins a hundred metres down the road, outside no. 2 Farrell Avenue.

My guess is somebody took it home, but it didn’t work.

You see some odd sights walking the streets around Kings Cross.

But McElhone Street has a couple of lovely surprises on the side.

The laneway garden above is on Windeyer Street.

This one’s at the end of Rae Place.

These gardens remind us a lot of this one in Thomson Street.

Street proud residents, lane way love.

We saw this odd street art on Kells Lane, Darlinghurst, today.

An off-kilter unicorn and a snorting android, paint peeling, with stars sparkling.

But tacked on top of the unicorn’s rump is this message.

Remembering “Lani”
Please boycott
Tim Tams
African slavery
Art by Invisible Man

Is it a reference to Lani Guinier (Clinton’s aborted nominee for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights in April 1993)? Or something else, and who is Invisible Man?

The car wash between Victoria Street and Darlinghurst Road is home to a veritable stencil gallery, but it’s been quiet for a while.

It was shut for a couple of months over summer, and the latest car wash business to step in to the space – Star – might have dampened enthusiasm. But this week, we spotted some new activity.

Looks like the artist, ZAP, might have done a large scale paste-up to get around the proprietor.

Two dinosaurs rapping? Hip-hop gesticulation?

A month ago we blogged about our favourite local French cafes serving takeaway coffees in styrofoam cups.

At Strawberry Cream, on Victoria Street, today – looks like the message got through!

A couple of years back, the Pop Shop, on Oxford Street, shut its doors.

I noticed the familiar faces of owners Angelo and Robert in Blueprint, on Macleay Street, earlier this year.

And then today, walking down Crown Street, between Campbell and Albion Streets, I noticed this:

They’re back!

Our occasional contributor BT picked up on one of these quaint (and informative) chalk pieces on the wall of a house on Oswald Lane, Darlinghurst, in May.

Two months later, there’s more. This time on Liverpool Street.

They’re taken with a phone, so the resolution isn’t great.

Pretty charming stuff, I’d love to get photos of the whole alphabet…

We’d also love to know who’s behind these adorable chalk pieces of graffiti. Keep them coming whoever you are.

Someone is feeling really sick today. A hippie of Jim Beam, pre-mix Jose Cuervo and a drum of vegetable oil.

Perhaps this is who was responsible for the vomit.

The Cross is probably at its most grotesque at 7 in the morning. Especially on a Sunday morning.

Fights are still breaking out and the ground is absolutely littered with trash.

And vomit.

Sometimes the vomit stains the ground for months, maybe years to come.

Fortunately, just moments after this shot was taken, the Karcher boys were heading north down Macleay Street.

This picture was taken from the fourth floor of the new wing at the Australian Museum, which we visited last weekend.

And this one is from the top of William Street two Sundays ago, just before a massive storm broke.