12.12.2002 "with any luck..."

hopefully, this will be the last post before migration over to moveabletype. at least, fooling around with 2 different blog systems has been happening long enough...time to move on! anyway.

it's well and truly scary when someone that you reckon doesn't know much about you, knows way more that you realise. or maybe they just have that extra sense. "you should go see the gleaners" says meredith. "you'd love it!".

little does she know that we walk up to a movie about people who glean/scavenge/pick other people's stuff with 20 magazines that we found in the alleyway outside a newsagent. it's for an art project/collage thing. honest. then there's that savers (the thrift department store! 1000's of new items daily!) addiction that could well be getting a little out of control considering that in the last month, our tally is: 1 pudding basin, (just like our mums), 1 pink netball skirt, 1 groovy 50's beauty case, 2 cushions, assorted balls of lambswool and mohair, assorted vintage knitting patterns, and about 20 sets of knitting needles. opening hours are memorised.

some other fine gleaning - the "conspicuous consumption" post about halfway down on massdistraction, and our favourite gleaners of all time (sing along...) "making good use of the things that we find, the things that the everyday folk leave behind" - the wombles.

for those who have enquired - no, we don't know yet if we're into the cae for the diploma of visual arts. find out around the 15th...we'll keep you posted.

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