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seandcLong long weekend at the moment (you may have noticed, although shockingly some places don't shut down on Good Friday), and I didn't want to be in the house all weekend (plus I still needed to get an egg - which turned out to be a Bounty egg) so I took a little trip up to Fremantle yesterday.
The day started bright and early Actually, I hit the alarm too hard, and woke up almost 2 hours later than I'd planned (which gave me time to realise that I've spent too long reading the Thursday Next books, if I'm starting to dream of fighting the Goliath corporation. And duping them. Then hiding the entire population of Perth in Bunbury...)
But I digress. Anyway, trundled off to Fremantle, handily forgetting to take a bag so I could have a peek in the upper storey of Elizabeth's Town Hall with the minimum of fuss. Nice layout (I mean, even without the many many shelves, though they can stay ;)), wouldn't mind a place of my own like that some day - just with less sun. Outside a loud re-enactment of the Crucifiction was being held (this area of High Street is a pedestrian mall, complete with chairs and tables built in), momentarily upstaged by the even louder corella flock.
Next stop - Harvey Norman (a chain of electrical superstores). Since Megamart went bust there's been nowhere to buy any but the most basic software in the central city (basic as in ubiquitous Office Suites and Antivirus, some games). After surprisingly little browsing I found my prize - a copy of Family Tree Maker 2006. Good thing I found an Australian edition, it has some extra local content (but I haven't looked at it yet). Yeah, I've been a bit distracted playing with that so far. :D
(oops, should've been prettifying this entry, but got distracted when I found some info on my great-grandmother's family about three hours ago...)
I checked out the Magpies bookstore in the Markets (well, I went into Magpies and found myself drifting out the marketside door) - tons of old books, alas too many to look at properly, even if they hadn't been in narrow shelves with people all around.
South Terrace/the cappuccino strip? So needs to be permanently traffic-free. This weekend saw the Fremantle Arts Festival for which they closed the road - being the cappuccino strip and Fremantle it's actually a very interesting mix of designs for all the permanent seating, just good luck not getting swept up by the croud! (as I was when I tried slowing down just enough to find the place I had lunch in the side-alley of one day) Pedestrian-only South Terrace would be good. Anyway, They were just starting to set up for the day's events as I was going along here popping into a couple of indy bookstores really just to look around (couldn't even get near some of the interesting shelves in New Edition). And yes, "interesting" applies to "taller than me" shelves!
After a brief wander down High Street, and I found a secondhand store which, in addition to secondhand videos, books, and tapes, has more vinyl than the three main vinyl record stores in Perth City combined. You could probably spend a lifetime and still not finish the store's stock. Plus a few of the older record players as well, 40s and 50 models. As well as normal music records they had souvenir recordings/promotional stuff on display amidst the old movie posters, like a record set made for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (although the sign said incomplete, otherwise it would've been worth double).
I thought I'd have a look further on to another bookstore a block away, but decided once I saw the range was a lot bigger than I remembered perhaps it would be best if I didn't go in, I didn't want to stick around all day! They did have a display of their range of old Rudyard Kipling books though, including some pre-war editions.
After all that, I didn't even get into Dymocks, or into Target to check a couple of things out (including perhaps a new chair) which was kind of the point of going to Fremantle in the first place, not just the bookstores. Heh, easily distracted, I almost forgot to look for Making Ghostbusters in Elizabeth's, which I'd been meaning to do for months. I also fried the multirider machine getting on the bus, go me!
Must remember to get on computer earlier tomorrow - I must improve on this "finishing post tomorrow/early the morning after" thing.
But I digress. Anyway, trundled off to Fremantle, handily forgetting to take a bag so I could have a peek in the upper storey of Elizabeth's Town Hall with the minimum of fuss. Nice layout (I mean, even without the many many shelves, though they can stay ;)), wouldn't mind a place of my own like that some day - just with less sun. Outside a loud re-enactment of the Crucifiction was being held (this area of High Street is a pedestrian mall, complete with chairs and tables built in), momentarily upstaged by the even louder corella flock.
Next stop - Harvey Norman (a chain of electrical superstores). Since Megamart went bust there's been nowhere to buy any but the most basic software in the central city (basic as in ubiquitous Office Suites and Antivirus, some games). After surprisingly little browsing I found my prize - a copy of Family Tree Maker 2006. Good thing I found an Australian edition, it has some extra local content (but I haven't looked at it yet). Yeah, I've been a bit distracted playing with that so far. :D
(oops, should've been prettifying this entry, but got distracted when I found some info on my great-grandmother's family about three hours ago...)
I checked out the Magpies bookstore in the Markets (well, I went into Magpies and found myself drifting out the marketside door) - tons of old books, alas too many to look at properly, even if they hadn't been in narrow shelves with people all around.
South Terrace/the cappuccino strip? So needs to be permanently traffic-free. This weekend saw the Fremantle Arts Festival for which they closed the road - being the cappuccino strip and Fremantle it's actually a very interesting mix of designs for all the permanent seating, just good luck not getting swept up by the croud! (as I was when I tried slowing down just enough to find the place I had lunch in the side-alley of one day) Pedestrian-only South Terrace would be good. Anyway, They were just starting to set up for the day's events as I was going along here popping into a couple of indy bookstores really just to look around (couldn't even get near some of the interesting shelves in New Edition). And yes, "interesting" applies to "taller than me" shelves!
After a brief wander down High Street, and I found a secondhand store which, in addition to secondhand videos, books, and tapes, has more vinyl than the three main vinyl record stores in Perth City combined. You could probably spend a lifetime and still not finish the store's stock. Plus a few of the older record players as well, 40s and 50 models. As well as normal music records they had souvenir recordings/promotional stuff on display amidst the old movie posters, like a record set made for the Coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (although the sign said incomplete, otherwise it would've been worth double).
I thought I'd have a look further on to another bookstore a block away, but decided once I saw the range was a lot bigger than I remembered perhaps it would be best if I didn't go in, I didn't want to stick around all day! They did have a display of their range of old Rudyard Kipling books though, including some pre-war editions.
After all that, I didn't even get into Dymocks, or into Target to check a couple of things out (including perhaps a new chair) which was kind of the point of going to Fremantle in the first place, not just the bookstores. Heh, easily distracted, I almost forgot to look for Making Ghostbusters in Elizabeth's, which I'd been meaning to do for months. I also fried the multirider machine getting on the bus, go me!
Must remember to get on computer earlier tomorrow - I must improve on this "finishing post tomorrow/early the morning after" thing.
