For two years our street has been a bit like a ghost town… some would prefer to say serene and quiet. It is only four weeks away from the second anniversary of the Sunday afternoon fire that took out the shopping centre – all eight businesses including the supermarket that had just had a multi-millionContinue reading “Our streetscape is changing…”
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Wembley Downs shops nearing completion
Mostly of interest to Wembley Downs folk who have been missing their local agora for almost two years. The proposed al fresco areas seem to be marked by the low curving balustrades to the middle and left. My church office being just across the road, I can see me setting up my laptop there andContinue reading “Wembley Downs shops nearing completion”
Faith – the evidence of things hoped for…
After many delays, work on rebuilding the shopping centre has begun. This calls for a haiku of celebration: yellow dragon growls she eats weeds and flattens hills rests now, day’s work done.
Wembley Downs shops. Signs of things to come…?
One year and one month after the fire that took out our local shops, and 13 months after expressions of an anticipated rebuilding and re-opening for this Christmas, the site is looking pretty bleak. The tremendous welling of community support and comfort for those who had lost livelihoods and a community meeting place haveContinue reading “Wembley Downs shops. Signs of things to come…?”
Wondering Pilgrim 