Book Fossicking

MB needed some "alternate" retail therapy today so MDR dropped MB at Goulds Bookshop in King St, Newtown and then drove further out to Auburn to check out some woodworking tools.
MB was delighted to find this fantastic shopping precinct, just outside the Sydney CBD (inner west). It features quite a few second hand bookshops, lots of diverse restaurants and loads of other funky shops. It's very much like Richmond/Prahran in Melbourne.
Goulds is a huge barn like shop with books stacked up to the rafters. The guy at the counter looked like Jabba the Hutt, sitting up behind his high counter. The sales assistants on the floor were even more entrancing, with one sales assistant, complete with unlit cigarette hanging out of his mouth, offering assistance, then lighting up. To MB's surprise he was smoking a joint! Amazingly liberal down here in NSW....
After quite a bit of fossicking MB bought a bunch of books and proceeded to check out the other shops in the area. When MDR got back lunch was had at a Vietnamese restaurant, great cold spring rolls there.
Just got back to the "Forest" with 30mins to spare for a shower then off to Dee Why for a super pasta dinner at Livotti's Deli with Marcie, Nes & Dan. Missed the chef abusing some other diners... Nes told us about it as were leaving, damn!