coralsea

I took my son to the Brickworks market today because he decided to sell his old lego...it's gotten very shabby and run down which means that stall rent is low and alot of very interesting dodgy stalls have opened....the toy stalls are crammed with mutilated Jem dolls with chopped hair and He-Man toys with extra muscles drawn on with texta. I hunted high and low for mermaids and fairies but to no avail (but they did have a complete Castle Greyskull) The owner gave us a good price on the lego, part of which was used to fund a salmonella-ish meal of fucked up looking pink meat ball things from a food stall. I could only look on in horror *fingers crossed nothing has come flying out of either end of him just yet*
I used to love that place as a kid, my favourite stall had Mad Max style leather goods and Motorhead t-shirts, I would beg my parents to go there just so I could stare at the people who owned it (they had mohawks and lurid eye make-up ya see). I bought my first studded belt (pink with flat studs) from there.
We had a look at the dodgem cars and bumper boats before we left..the kids looking after those rides just sit around all day chatting (why can't all jobs be like that?), it's all faded 80's themepark stuff...
The Ye Fake Olde Lolly shop is still going and still sells warped imported chocolates with screwy names like "This is not for Girls!" (which is plain milk chocolate?!) and "Army & Navy" (which is liqorice...) but it also sells a huge range of tasty fudge like choc coated choc fudge *drool* caramel and choc fudge *nnnnnn*dribble*dribble* The fruit and veg hall had dirt cheap veges and heaps of discount stuff as well as more exotic veges...I shall return cos I liked it all nice and run down, before it gets redeveloped and turned into zillion dollar apartments for horrible fascists and their too clean, too docile, non-swearing progeny...