On this day, in 1960, Albert Ullin opened The Little Bookroom in Melbourne. I first knew the shop in 1977 as a tiny space in Equitable Place in the city. It glowed its welcome through plate glass windows to the warm wooden shelves filled with books I hadn’t read. In 1977, I’d just started myContinue reading “The Little Bookroom’s Birthday”
Author Archives: Margaret R Kett
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus -2003
Hi! I’m the bus driver. Listen, I’ve got to leave for a little while, so can you watch things for me until I get back? Thanks. Oh and remember: Don’t let the pigeon drive the bus! On a Saturday night in March of 2003, there was an unusually severe windy rainstorm in Perth. The windContinue reading “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus -2003”
