On the fringes of Sydney, where patchy pieces of bushland and paddocks jut up against the sprawl, the pristine, still empty cul-de-sacs of a new housing development arch over a grassy ridge.
Wallace Shawn's Aunt Dan and Lemon is a patchy, garrulous, disagreeable piece, set in England but with its eye on America.
It's also why, despite moments of greatness, it remains a patchy, rather careless-sounding piece of work.
However, Empire magazine only rated it 2 stars out of 5 (poor), concluding "this is a very patchy affair - while some of the animated pieces work, others come across as downright insane".
Investigators piecing together patchy data from military radar and satellites believe that minutes later the plane turned sharply west, re-crossing the Malay Peninsula and following an established commercial route towards India.
City planners, elected officials and emergency-management types must deal with the city as it is, and on Monday evening everyone knew that a couple of inches of snow were about to fall on a region with patchy public transport.Earlier in her piece, however, Ms Burns makes a valuable distinction between Atlanta, the city of 444,000 people and Atlanta the region of 6m.
Conductor Semyon Bychkov did his duty by the piece, which never really marshals its patchy material to best effect.
In short, Xyrem helps piece together what would otherwise be a patchy, unfulfilling night for a narcoleptic and then disappears from the body after 12 hours, leaving nothing resembling a hangover.
It contains a patchy array of art and artefacts, ranging from ancient Egyptian carvings to modern art pieces, bewilderingly arranged with little chronological thought.
In one of the earliest canvases, a still life of a bottle and a few pieces of fruit on a table, Cézannesque abstraction is animated by brushy gesturalism and bright, patchy color.
