Wes's Window on Life

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  • Wes’s Window on Coffee, Stone & Sydney

    Wes’s Window on Coffee, Stone & Sydney

    by wes I’m sitting in a new coffee joint in an alley just off Oxford Street called Mecca, drinking my coffee and watching a barista perform on this giant monolith of a slab of stone that is their stage. It is dramatic, slightly ridiculous and very Sydney. And I suddenly thought, bloody hell, I really…

  • Wes’s Window on Tiffany & Co

    by wes There I was, standing in a queue just to get into a shop. A security guard stopped me at the door. “Do you have an appointment?” I took a deep breath. Two years ago, I was given a silver dog tag chain for my birthday. It’s one of those pieces of jewellery you…

  • Wes’s Window on Layering

    By Wes I checked the weather last night before packing my gym bag and saw 20 degrees. To me that means temperamental weather. Maybe a hoodie. Maybe a light jersey. Something that says “prepared” and “mature adult making sensible choices”. Yet here I am at 11am sweating through my soul. Part of my nightly routine is…

  • Why Inner City Prices Could Heat Up This Winter — Even if the Weather Doesn’t

    by Wes, You can almost feel it in the air—the kind of early winter chill that sends people reaching for coats, pulling out heaters, and, if they’ve been watching the market closely, leaning into the Inner City real estate scene. Now, I know winter isn’t traditionally the season we associate with big moves. It’s the season…

  • Now That the Dust Has Settled

    Now that the flags have been folded after ANZAC Day, the last of the chocolate eggs have been eaten, and the campaign posters have finally come down, there’s a moment of quiet settling across the Inner West. A sense that the year, at long last, is actually beginning. It’s a strange time, this post-festivity lull. We’ve…