Busy Sunday in Lower Fort Street

Woken at 4am by hammering on the Bridge - dozens of workers and lots of machinery doing essential track maintenance the only time it can be done, so this is OK.

The bridge paint sucker underneath was also going flat out, making a high-pitched noise just short of painful. Unusual this is going on a Sunday.

Didn't seem to diminish the number of people walking through Tarra Park, then weaving along Parbury Lane beside the house 'Tarra', or down the beside the other half of the pair, 'Mascotte', then along the alleyways and other walks that weave through Millers Point.

Visitors might have noticed that the 1980s pyramid atop the Park Hyatt lift shaft has come off. There is something afoot here. Are they starting on their rooftop extension already? Is this a fight lost before we have even begun to respond?