I quickly tired of the department stores and headed to something more to my taste ... Dymocks bookshop. I am thinking of starting a series on books and bookshops ... will have more success with that than city lines I reckon.
We passed through Bakers Swamp without noticing anything. Then reached our last dot on the map for this trip - Larras Lee and saw this. The roadside monument says: In Memory of WILLIAM LEE (1794 - 1870) of "Larras Lake" a pioneer of the sheep and cattle industry and first member for Roxburgh under responsible government (1856 - 1859). This stone was erected by his descendants. --- 1938 --- This is a repost from a few days ago. Thinking I would use this for this week’s Taphophile Tragics post I dug a little further into William Lee’s story, it’s a very colonial Australian one. William was born of convict parents, living his childhood years around the Sydney region. In his early 20s he was issued with some government cattle, recommended as a suitable settler and granted 134 acres at Kelso near Bathurst. He was one of the first in the area and did well. A few years later he was granted a ram and an inc...
It's so sad that the number of bookshops in the city have wittled down in recent years. Hopefully Dymocks is here to stay.
ReplyDeleteFortunately most of the good ones are still around.
ReplyDeleteI love Dymocks, but have never been to their coffee shop. I must admit that nowadays I mostly take the escalator down to "children's". I am prepared to buy adult books online, but hardly ever children's ...
ReplyDeleteI tried ebooks but at heart I am a book collector and ebooks just are not the same.
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