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SMOKED FISH

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The other day in the city I bought some salmon bellies [$4.00 a kilo!], & someone generously gave me a fresh schnapper on Friday [thanks Kerry!]. I scaled & filleted the schnapper & marinated some of it with the salmon overnight in a mixture of 1 teaspoon each of salt & raw sugar, with the juice of a lemon, & some dill. On Saturday afternoon I set the smoker up in the back garden, with 3 handfulls of manuka sawdust inside. I laid the fish along with some fresh asparagus stalks onto tinfoil, put this on the grill inside the smoker, poured half a cup of meths into the burner - lit the meths, & placed the burner under the smoker. The meths took about 10 minutes to burn out, I then turned the fish, added more sawdust, refilled the burner & let it burn out then sit for a while. The result was delicious! - eaten with refried beans & watercress salad. The meths is a bit messy, so I have bought a small LPG cannister for my camping stove to us

COMIX IN THE DUMPSTER

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Today I did a dumpster dive in the industrial estate around the corner, & came away with a few items - notably a 3D "Viewmaster" & a dozen slides for it, all Disney cartoons: Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Micky Mouse, 1953 & 1959. I just them before the rain came down, another 5 minutes & they would have been badly soaked.

SEXY BACHELOR COOKING SHOW

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My new "Sexy Bachelor Cooking Show & Survival Guide" is on the web....activites, updates will be posted to the blog: www.sexybachelor.blogspot.com as well as the new website: www.sexybachelor.webs.com - where there will soon be recipies as well Videos of the show will be on my youtube channel: www.youtube.com/martinadlington The first two programmes are uploaded & can be found on the links below: "How to Cut up a Chicken" "Home-made Beer - the Micro-brewery"

Recycled Art Show and Tell Video - the trailer

LATEST VIDEO

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I have just posted my latest video in the "Men Behaving Badly" series - another totally politically-incorrect dating guide with lots of sex'n' rock'n'roll.....

ZINE FEST

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On Sat 14th August I had a stall at the 2010 Auckland Zine Festival in St Kevin's Arcade in Karangahape Road. Attendance was steady thruout the day, & I met some nice people as well as selling some of my altered books. See some of my collages on www.culture-jams.blogspot.com

BEACH TRASH ASSEMBLAGES

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"BBBBBBBalls"......................... "Best By" "Four Tui"..................... "Fcuk Me Shoes" "Mortagee Sale" Today I picked up some more stuff from the beach after the winds & high seas....I have been reading a new book about the surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, & was inspired to place some of my new & old finds into small boxes. See more of my  recycled, upcycled and environmental works at www.martinadlington.webs.com