Sorting Out Shelves

Covid is a right pain but sometimes all the shielding helps you focus your minds on things to do at home that have been long overdue - like clearing the shed and de cluttering generally.  Hazel found a mysterious dusty suitcase in the coal shed and I assumed it was full of old correspondence but it turned out to be out collection of old tin money boxes shaped like post office "pillar boxes".  Some nice old ones amongst them. Also some nasty plastic ones that will be off to the charity shop.  First we had to find a shelf for them which wouldn't be easy as we hate to throw anything away.  Hazel convinced me that a cull of the DVD's above my work station would be a good idea.  So with a heavy heart I went through them all and put aside the ones I would least likely watch again like the Phantasm boxed set that seemed a good idea at the time!  They look great all dusted and standing in rows looking down at me as I type this.   Also found  some tin drums that went underneath the TV next the wooden puppet elephant from India.( via Yorkshire charity shop )

Mail Art Sorting

More mail art sorting for proposed exhibition at Special Collections in 2019. Steph, who is in charge of SC came over for lunch and looked through some of what we had sorted and tried to get an idea of the task involved in looking through 40+ years of correspondence and finding out more about it. At the moment putting the regular correspodants into zip lock files. When they have outgrown them they go into a box file. Art Nahpro ( Paul Jackson ), Mark Pawson , Eric Finlay, John Evans and Michael Scott have their own box file and close behind are Creative Thing, Ed Giecek, Mark Greenfield, Vittore Baroni etc.