Hanging out in Marrickville

Post Office Cafe-charcoal and watercolour

Saturday morning in Marrickville... just like old times. This inner west suburb is  pretty hip and happening now but wasn't really so when we moved here 20 something years ago.  Moved to the next suburb along  a few years ago and it's nice to be back.
Above is the scene as I drank a coffee at the Post Office Cafe on Marrickville Road today.  It's in the original post office, a lovely big building.  There was a fire here last year so was pleased to see it open.

When parking the car in a back street I saw the view below of St Clement's church, Marrickville, seen between buildings- the back of the Chinese Restaurant on the left and Herb Greed Hall on the right ( which I haven't shown)  There was a groovy bicycle parked at the end of the restaurant's parking lot which I was hoping to put in but  cars kept parking in front of it so this part of the idea is not there.
St Clement received a new steeple a few years ago as the original one was falling down.  When walking the dog on a Saturday afternoon I loved to stop to listen to the church bells of St Clement's and watch wedding parties go in or out. Ah, good times...

St Clement's Church as seen between the Chinese restaurant and Herb Greedy Hall