out and about

We drove to Melbourne Street in North Adelaide.  Back in the 1970s this was the grooviest street and the boys were all excited about The Clipjoint - hairdresser / barber with topless female barbers.  It's not so groovy these days - though I did work briefly in a cafe there in about 2006.  Now there's some retail but it is increasingly medical / specialist rooms.  Pearl had an appointment with her sister and we waited for her at a Vietnamese influenced cafe.

Pearl looks calm and assured.  I look like a cross  between the Cheshire Cat and Rumpole of the Bailey

Lady Jayne waits elegantly

While Pearl attended her sister, LJ and I sought out the North Adelaide shop once belonging to her aunt.  As a child, the Lady would sit by the shop door and alert her aunt to the arrival of customers.  

The shop is now a popular cafe whose patrons looked very PLU

We meandered back to Melbourne Street and rendezvoused with Pearl.  Cunningly I had noticed an exhibition advertised outside the David Roche House Museum, a place I had long wanted to visited but had never been able to find.  Seize the day! 

https://www.rochefoundation.com.au/exhibitions/  The exhibition consisted of 12 huge, stunning tapestries that Arthur Boyd had commissioned to be made in Portugal from his Life of St Francis paintings and drawings.

As a reward for such cultural pursuits, we indulged in lunch at The Red Lion, once The Place to rage the weekend away.

Taking the long way home, we eventually located the house where Lady Jayne's grandma had  lived.  It would be a wonderful place to live today - close to the Parklands, old houses, a villagey feel with an edge.

The next day we were off to Tanunda to take Pearl's sister home.  This is another lovely town with a gorgeous bookshop.

I didn't buy this book but have ordered it from the library since my return.

So beguiled was I by the shop and owner that I bought a 500 piece jigsaw.  I hate jigsaws but thought, if ever I'm going to get into them, this is the one to do it.  Could be useful if I ever have to quarantine again for covid or suchlike...

Took the Glenelg tram the next day into the city.  It was Friday and The Guardsman restaurant in the train station was open!  It's not the exciting lunch place it used to be, the menu having been taken over by the inevitable improbable sounding burgers, but there's still some good choices and the toilets are as refreshing as ever.

More driving the next day - McLaren Vale and the d'Arenberg Cube.  We wanked our way through the wine tasting and Salvador Dali exhibition.

I tried to get Lady Jayne to out-impose this bronze 

but she  preferred to checkout the merch.

The Pearl got down to some serious study

and the autumn vines were glorious

Some days you've just got to agree with The Man.