Coffee time...

Occasionally DH and I treat ourselves to a coffee in a coffee shop. Today I'm going to post some photos that I took at 2 local 'haunts'.

One day recently, we went to a small shop in the neighbouring suburb of Mitchelton, in particular in Blackwood St. It has the rather interesting name of Geronimo Jerky and it is right next door to where DH and I worked last year on the state election. I didn't take a photo of this cafe though...I took photos of the examples of 'yarn-bombing' in the street.

I noticed this one first...

Then looked down the footpath towards the railway crossing and saw this one...

Close up of the 'nurse'...

This one was outside the building where DH and I had worked... when we worked there, the building had been put up for sale and Ben, the chemist from across the road had said he'd love to buy it as his shop was so cramped...

Ta dah!!

The pharmacy has moved to the old bank building :-)

The week before last we tried out a fairly new cafe that had opened at nearby Gaythorne. 

I'd read a review of this cafe in the Sunday Mail which had been rather flattering.

We chose a table on the footpath...the cafe is on a small service road just off busy Samford Rd...

This new eatery is owned by someone with the surname, Hansell.

Looking towards Samford Rd...

Our coffees came in quaint 70s mugs...

The cafe wasn't far from the railway bridge just after/before Gaythorne Station...I had my phone ready to take a photo when the next train came through...

We parked our car at the back of the block of shops. On the strip of railway land beside the shops, there were lots of morning glory vines in flower...

The next time we visit Hansell and Gretel we might try one of the breakfast dishes...they sure looked good!

The lovely street where I work....Bigger is not necessarily better!

In this post I want to share some photos of the streetscape where I'm presently working. In the early years this was the main commercial area of the suburb. Then in the early 1970s a 'shoppingtown' complex was built in a street parallel to this less than half a kilometre away. As years went by the fortunes of this street (Blackwood St) began to decline.




Building Brookside in 1970

A new way of shopping...the shoppingtown; Brookside in 1971

Below, Brookside in 1994....

Shoppers seemed to prefer the larger complex but the traders knew that many people loved their quieter precinct and actually preferred it to the busier Brookside. So it was that the community fought back and many joined forces to come up with strategies to save Blackwood St shops and businesses. The vision of those people means that this is a bustling, but very pleasant shopping and dining precinct.
Below are some photos I took last week of Blackwood St....

Used the telescopic lens here; looking towards the railway crossing

We've been working here for 3 weeks and already have got to know many  of the business owners; and delightful and helpful people they are too.