The Bunyip Grain Store (Based on the true Pearson & Co Store, Bunyip, 1905). In the growing town of Bunyip, right beside the railway line, stood the Pearson & Co. Feed and Grain Store. A proud timber building with big hand-painted signs — Hardware, Seed, Grain Store, Timber Yard, Ironmonger — Owned by Charles Pearson and his sons, the store was always full of life, living at the store were two other creatures: Nell, the grey mother cat with lovely soft fur and the little pesky mouse. Nell liked to curl up in her little bed on the veranda. The mouse was always on the lookout for crumbs. Nell did not mind the mouse too much. Each morning, the horse-drawn carts would set off, loaded high with grain and timber; those days were very different to today. Nowadays the grain store is long gone but as you look at the mural on the west wall of IGA — the one painted by Simon white Art in 2021, you can see the grain store, the men and the horses, you might also imagine Nell there, and a little mouse running along the “Timber Yard” sign, “There was no place quite like Pearson’s Store — and no cat quite like Nell.” By Davina