Coburg Market

I often do my shopping at the Coburg Market. It is a small, old-​fashioned fresh food market with a bull-​nosed, corrugated iron front. The whole place is worn but clean. There is a high old corrugated iron ceiling spanning the whole market and an old pressed tin ceiling at the entrance. There is another entrance at the back of the market, the truck delivery bay, but that is not so attractive although it does go directly to the car-​park.
Today I’m shopping for a dinner party and I think that I can get everything that I need under this one large roof. Seasonally there always is something different at the market. There is a large fruit and vegetable stand where I buy grapes, purple onions, rocket leaves and baby spinach leaves. And the fish stand where I buy half a kilo of mussels. I compare prices at the two butchers, and two chicken butchers and the two delicatessens. Actually chicken breasts are cheaper today at the butchers on Sydney Road. Finally, some nuts from the nut shop to go with the cheese and to complete the meal. There is a small tobacco stand is built into the market — I don’t need any of that for the diner party.