by Jessica Tapp.
This month's theme Going local - city, kiez, suburb really made me think about how I relate to my (new) neighbourhood.
I don't have just one though. I move back and forth between my new home in the city's inner west, my parents' home in the south, my boyfriend's place in Sydney's south-west and everything in between.
This month I was going to bring you Australia Day celebrations, Chinese New Year, graffiti artist James (who raps his conversations with people) and the
perfect Sydney Blue Sox baseball game against the Adelaide Cardinals.
Technology malfunctions meant I bring you this instead, along with my experiences exploring my neighbourhood.
Every day as I walk to and from work, there are always old Cypriot men sitting outside on the plastic chairs, smoking their cigarrettes and drinking their espresso coffee. This is a photo of Con, who was nice enough to take me inside the club and tell me all about the souvenirs on display inside. I think little old men like this exist in every country.
When I came across Sergio Redegalli he was updating his mural after it was
vandalised yet again. The mural has
undergone many transformations because of graffiti, but he says he likes the way the vandalism looks and he's trying to include it in his mural to show that everyone can have a say.
This busker was making the most beautiful music with his Vietnamese horse fiddle. The people that perform outside the Westpac bank in Newtown tend to be very good.
I think it wasn't until I got further afield that I came across unfamiliar territory and felt like a stranger in a stranger land. This photo was taken inside one of the sails of the Sydney Opera House. The off-kilter nature of the photo perfectly reflects how I feel. The architecture is fantastic, but I think that we take it for granted because we're so used to seeing the Sydney Opera House.
All those feelings of being a fish out of water evaporate when you see someone as blase about the icon as this man.
Serenity. 
