groovy shops in newcastle
actually my sister taught me that word, groovy, we used to say it whilst lounging around in our desert boots and fingerless gloves that we'd finally begged Mum to buy us; whilst watching ABC tv comedies like Australia You're Standing in It, and Newsfree Zone (Mum had strict tv rules that limited us to no more than 1.5 hours of tv per day; thanks to that I read lots of books and have almost perfect memories of abc childrens television like Degrassi High and Press Gang and James Valentine playing the saxophone). (and another divergence-my real life James Valentine lookalike, young Mr Tasman, enjoyed his final mid year uni holiday break by joining up with a ukelele night in Northcote and apparently was acting like a rock star-jumping off tables, carousing until the early hours of a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning... )
So, groovy shops. Both on Darby Street in Cooks Hill of Newcastle.
Betty and Mim-bit of homewares, a few hats, some clips, scarves, lots of baskety bags, clothes, japanese ceramics, wallpaper rolls. All stylish, simple, clean, nice.
Honeybee. Even better than Betty and Mim, but no website. You can get a soy latte, buy organic teas, let your kids do a crayon drawing on the table, mingle for tshirts, jumpers, kids clothes, grown up clothes, lamps, canvases, threedrawerdown tea towels, rugs. Then it's all wrapped up in tissue paper and secured with cardboard tags cut up from kids crayon drawings (hopefully their kids don't hold it against them). Very cool, very much pushing the hand made personally designed concept. Bought an astro-robot tshirt for young Gus, wanted to buy stuff for Asher but didn't know his size, and for Ned but his size wasn't available. Also bought the coolest tshirt in the world, a little red number, with proportions that kept it in the designer street wear, not sport wear camp, for whcih I am grateful. Ugh, enough materialism for me!
So to the movies I go!
So, groovy shops. Both on Darby Street in Cooks Hill of Newcastle.
Betty and Mim-bit of homewares, a few hats, some clips, scarves, lots of baskety bags, clothes, japanese ceramics, wallpaper rolls. All stylish, simple, clean, nice.
Honeybee. Even better than Betty and Mim, but no website. You can get a soy latte, buy organic teas, let your kids do a crayon drawing on the table, mingle for tshirts, jumpers, kids clothes, grown up clothes, lamps, canvases, threedrawerdown tea towels, rugs. Then it's all wrapped up in tissue paper and secured with cardboard tags cut up from kids crayon drawings (hopefully their kids don't hold it against them). Very cool, very much pushing the hand made personally designed concept. Bought an astro-robot tshirt for young Gus, wanted to buy stuff for Asher but didn't know his size, and for Ned but his size wasn't available. Also bought the coolest tshirt in the world, a little red number, with proportions that kept it in the designer street wear, not sport wear camp, for whcih I am grateful. Ugh, enough materialism for me!
So to the movies I go!
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