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Not quite what we intended...
Dec. 23rd, 2006 12:34 pmWell, after a nice late night of cocktails and conversation, this morning we set out in search of bricks and clay for an oven. But alas, it wasn't to be. Demolitions place was shut, so no bricks.
Decided that clay with no brick base was a tad pointless and we really should get home and work on bookcases and other furnature assembly. To degrump, paused on Killkenny Street to giggle at the porn shop and check out a second hand book place. Porn shop was neither here nor there - just like the ones in Canberra really. The bookshop however... for such a small shop in an out of the way corner, very nice. Ecclectic array with a large Russian focus. Dangerous - we wandered out with Frozen Tombs of Siberia: the Pazyryk burials of iron age horsemen by Sergei I Rudenko. Bit dated as it is the 1953 edition first translated to English 1970. But gorgeously detailed and amazing finds. Apparently we just missed a bunch on Scythian art. Fingers crossed, with the general focus, the place may be likely to get some of the books on the Novgorod excavations. Also a reasonably large erotica section, as in lots of written books as opposed to silly picture books. Z very carefully resisted the Dudley Pope, Alexander Kent collection. Definitely have to make it back there.
ABC Classic FM is having great fun with animal music and Winnie the Pooh. They also generally doing a good line in nice OLD Chirstmas carols.
Time for lunch, chairs and bookcases.
Decided that clay with no brick base was a tad pointless and we really should get home and work on bookcases and other furnature assembly. To degrump, paused on Killkenny Street to giggle at the porn shop and check out a second hand book place. Porn shop was neither here nor there - just like the ones in Canberra really. The bookshop however... for such a small shop in an out of the way corner, very nice. Ecclectic array with a large Russian focus. Dangerous - we wandered out with Frozen Tombs of Siberia: the Pazyryk burials of iron age horsemen by Sergei I Rudenko. Bit dated as it is the 1953 edition first translated to English 1970. But gorgeously detailed and amazing finds. Apparently we just missed a bunch on Scythian art. Fingers crossed, with the general focus, the place may be likely to get some of the books on the Novgorod excavations. Also a reasonably large erotica section, as in lots of written books as opposed to silly picture books. Z very carefully resisted the Dudley Pope, Alexander Kent collection. Definitely have to make it back there.
ABC Classic FM is having great fun with animal music and Winnie the Pooh. They also generally doing a good line in nice OLD Chirstmas carols.
Time for lunch, chairs and bookcases.
