You just have to stop and engage

So i'm walking back home from a day at the beach along Victoria street and i clock Jim (above) wheeling a milk crate full of honey. A rather odd sight in inner city Darlinghurst and one sure to grab my honey loving eye! I almost walked past Jim, but then remembered my pledge so i backtracked and approached him to ask about his booty.

As it turns out Jim is a bee keeper from Bathurst in the Sydney Basin! Every fortnight Jim visits the inner city and sells his Bottle brush honey door to door for $10 a tub! (about half the price of the regular stuff).

Luckily i had exactly $20 on me so i grabbed two from him right there and then and after chatting about the state of bee keeping, his sales method and the benefits of honey on your health we went our separate ways.

Saying hello to the arts

I met this lovely actress in the street looking for the Griffin Theatre, so i gave her directions and struck up a fantastic conversation as you do when living local.

Jim returns

On a roll i stopped by to say hello to my barber Maria and the girls at Grand Royal. The conversation quickly turned to my bounty of honey and i ended up giving Jim's honey a bigup to the customers when what do you know - Jim shows up to sell a few more tubs to the punters and staff! After a while i headed back to my apartment, but in true live local style i dropped into my neighbours Simon and Melinda (see Rooftop experiment) and shared the love by dropping a tub of honey off. It's funny but i got home two hours from when i hopped the bus and felt like i'd had another day's worth of experiences.

Happy with my first live local pledge i vowed to do it again next week ..