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Weds 6 October

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 Today I went out in the van. First to Mairangi Bay Arts to drop off some polystyrene boxes I collected from the New World skip for a school-holiday art project they are running. (They are going to make a pond with these and a tarp filled with water for kids to fish with magnets for trash fish.
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Saturday

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Wow! Was thinking of you on Saturday when I walked outside to see this...!!!
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Men at Work

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The Council building across the road is bening gutted and completely refurbished.
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Trash show-and-tell

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Last Wednesday I presented a show-and-tell for children at the local Browns Bay Library in my guise as "The Professor of Garbology". Below: a clock made from a frissbee - Below: an apron made from a coffee bean sack - Below: a broken kete handle replaced with a bicycle innertube-  Below: the Prof ponders a recycling query - Read more of my adventures in dumpsterdiving, upcycling, recycling, and  freeganing at: The Adlington Post www.martin-adlington.blogspot.com  
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The PM gets hip!

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Below: the NZ Prime Minister models earrings made from knitting needles: "Stick to your knitting indeed!" Below: more knitting needle earrings - Below: bracelets made from knitting needles -
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3 upcycled clocks

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Kiwiana trout-fishing souvenir (Lake Taupo): "Palm" corned beef tin with fork pendulum: Metal frying pan out of a shearing shed in Taranaki:
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4 more upcycled clocks

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Electric fryingpan lid: Kiwiana paua-chip plate: Kiwiana copper bird plaque: Aluminium frying pan with Tui beer-can label:
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