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Visual diary

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 Sunday 13th June Market day in Browns Bay, cold wind, heavy rain at 10am. Went out at 7am - still dark, stalls still setting up, browsers flashing torches to view the goods on display. Bought a 1930’s (?) slip-cast female Negroid head ($5), a set of glass measuring instruments ($5), three pieces of Kiwiana cutlery ($3).   Gave a new car radio (a donation), a finger-nail drying machine (found in a skip), and several old-fashioned clothes, hat and shoe brushes (collected on Op shop tours) to stall-holder Neville-the-Camera and wife Maureen - who gave me a bag of mandarins from their garden. At noon I helped Bob with the tools stall to pack up - in return he gave me a small vice, which needs restoring - a project for another wet winter day. In the carpark I found two broken pieces of plastic - a crunched orange bottle cap and a broken lid from a takeaway food container; plus a persimmon: fallen from the fruit and vegetable stall and left behind on the tarmac.     After bacon, eggs and th

The truth behind the face

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Trash Show and Tell

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Last Wednesday (15 July 2020) I presented a show-and-tell, for children, on recycling at the local Browns Bay Library; in my alias as "New Zealand's own Professor of Garbology". Below: a kete handle repaired with a bicycle inner-tube - Below: a clock from a frissbee - Below :  an apron made from a coffee sack - Below: pondering a hard question: See more of my upcycled and recycled creations at; www.trash-zilla.blogspot.com

Donald Finally Tells the Truth

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"Stick to your knitting!"

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The PM needles the opposition:

Cultural Colonialism #1

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"Nothing to see here"

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