Kim has collected a World War Two German Bomb fin washed from the sediment of the River Don and found by a man from Record Collector. A Star A-frame poster - saying "Priceless Treasures Damaged in City Flood". Photographs and stories. She has also collected a Kilner jar which came from Burton's butchers shop in Attercliffe which got filled with water by the flood so it's kind of protogenisised itself. (I made that word up) A Sylvester the cat soft toy with no nose washed up in the street. Half the city's social history collection has some sort of flood damage - they will make a decision on a few key items which will not be conserved: A silk satin embroidered Victorian screen with a serious tide mark will not be fully restored and there will be a few other items too.
the first use of the term Clagnut is attributed to VIZ comic circa 1986
My quote is from today which was in many ways horrible and hard work but I was trying to get a group of kids to think of a superhero with animal powers a year 1 student came up with androgenously named
"Pigeon Person who's super power was to poo and peoples shoulder" why is it always the shoulder.
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does she want the 2 plastic and one glass bottles i baled into a silage round bale today -they were washed up onto the field after floods?
they will reappear in the winter in the crew yard - im happy to save them!
Also dad and i found a pot egg [pheasant size] a potatoe sack stamp and a fat cow measure today, which we tried out on him, he was 229 lbs dead weight. The quart measure with the caked on cod liver oil which we were looking for was found although he didnt remember how it got so dinted, "must have put it in with the pigs for them to lick out, looks like they did more than licking" - my quote of the day
Kim only collects from Sheffield so anything from outside the city walls is beyond her Remit - I once picked up a stop the war poster in Manchester and told her it was from Sheffield so she would put it in the collection- when I admitted my grave error of judgement she went Ballistic. The ethics of collecting are interesting as she sees integrity of the collection as a holistic thing rather than linked to individual objects. thought of an interesting idea of extending rulers or changing feet and inches to metric sort of likre my mend series - Funtion and meaning is the area of interest - new function and recycled meaning - Canoes and Cargo.
I found this post kind of heartbreaking.
Andy Pollard thought this up one day talking of the objects in the homes in Rotherham:
These household items are visual triggers for oft-recounted tales which, through embellishment, over time, have taken on mythical status, with shared family legends, which, when unpicked, reveal a great deal about that particular family’s values and its individual members and the broader culture of which they are part.
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