The room out back.

Last weekend on a trip up the coast, we stopped for coffee in the township of Braidwood. Thomas Braidwood Wilson was a surgeon who worked aboard convict ships journeying from England to New South Wales and Tasmania in the early 1800’s. During one of the voyages he managed to transport a hive, thereby introducing the first english honeybees to Australia. Braidwood is a small town pressed firmly down like a tack into the billowing roll of surrounding hills pretty much at half-way point between where I live and the ocean. As the car drives. Some 1100 residents currently live here. Originally it supported the local sheep and cattle farming industry, and I guess it still does. But more recently, it seems to have become a draw for artists and craftspeople. And tourists. There are art and craft shops dotting the street and some neat coffee and eating spots to be discovered. Waiting for Kelly to buy some bread from the local bakery, I wandered into an antique store for a look see. I creaked around the old room for a few minutes, amongst the smells of polish and grandparents. The usual array of tables and chairs and glass cabinets containing neatly arranged fine bone china Beatrix Potter bowls and 1970’s plastic lamps. I quite liked one of the dining tables, but it was snatched away by the sold sticker on one corner. Working my way around, I passed a slightly open door at the rear of the store. Snooping back a bit, I could see that it led through to a much larger room. The door wa...
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