Yesterday I became extremely excited by the skip outside a neighbour’s house. They were having a new kitchen fitted and I watched as the day went by, large, clean wonderful pieces of flattish cardboard boxes being cast into it.
My mind raced to my former life and the things that I could make with groups of children out of this immensely valuable material resource! Thwarted by the fact I no longer have an outlet for this I put out a call to anyone else who might be interested so that I could rescue it. I talked to the neighbour who then promised to intercept the card between fitter and skip, and store in his garage to keep it clean and dry until I could get it into my car to get it to the studio.
“I’ll take ALL of it please”
“All of it?”
“Yes.”
“But there’s tons of it!”
“Yes I know, that’s the point!”
“ALL of it??”
“Yes please.”
“What will you do with it?”
“I don’t know yet, I can’t use it but I know loads of people that would love it!”
“ALL OF IT???”
“Yes!”
“But you don’t know who will have it?”
“I know that someone will, and will be as thrilled as I would have been!”
“But it’s just brown cardboard?”
“Yes, but there’s LOADS of it… which means the potential is enormous!”
“OK…”
Then this morning, as I had loaded my car, and they were reversing off the drive, they wound down the window and said:
“There will be some more card today, do you really want that too?”
“Ooh yes please!”
“ALL OF IT?”
“Definitely, yes, all of it.”
“We can’t imagine what anyone would do with it all!!”
“Just pile it up, I’ll take it away, and when someone makes something with ALL OF IT, I’ll get them to take photos and I’ll show you!”
So, Bo Jones, When I cram this lot into your car boot, you’d better make sure you take some photos of what gets done with it!
