The Adlington Post

 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...

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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

The PM needles the opposition:

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The Future:

Autumn at Browns Bay Beach:

Anzac Day 2020 at Browns Bay:

Anzac Day 2020 To mark ANZAC Day I made a wreath to hang at my front door from a circle of fishing line I found on 90 Mile Beach and some poppies thrown out by the Browns Bay RSA after the fire in 2015. See my video of the fire www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmTY9_xFjAY

Covid-20?

Some pieces from my collection of naive art:

My own resuscitator: Some time ago one of the local chemist shops had a clear-out. I found this 1960's (?) resuscitator, along with a few other handy bits and pieces of medical kit, in the skip. The problem with Marie Kondo's theory is that you never know what you may need - until you need it. So I will keep collecting junk no matter the fashion.

"A Bird on the Wire" Time for some music - watch the Leonard Cohen song "Bird on the Wire": www.youtube.com/watch?v=boMZEe9v_SA

"The Way Forward"

"The Vaccine"

Rangitoto:                                                           In homage to Hiroshi Sugimoto.      This period of reduced outside activity has given me the opportunity to trawl through some of the photographic books I have collected over the past year.      Of particular interest for me has been Michael Freeman’s “Fifty Paths to Creative Photography” in which this very experienced photographer gives 50 brief tutorials on creative approaches to taking pictures. Chapters include: “Mistrust Experience”, ‘Surrealism and the Found”, “Known Subject, Different View”.      I found a good starting point was “Homage” in which Freeman sugge...

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