Today I was very excited to find an old (ish) polaroid camera in my local charity shop for the princely sum of £0.95, unfortunately though something seems to be stuck inside and rather than spitting out the black protective cover from the film out then allowing you to take pictures it simply kept disgorging my precious polaroid films exposing them all. The price of these films today means that I was very sad for a while and looked mopishly at e-bay for half an hour as I wondered how long my last box of films would last me. until I spotted this website:

http://www.theimpossibleproject.com/2009

which suggests that someone else might be taking over the production of polaroid films in the near future, which makes me considerably happier, but for the moment I still have my eye on a pack of black and white 600 film from e-bay, hands off!

Inspired by Channel 4’s Indian Winter I thought I’d post some of the Indian postcards I have in my possession. The green hand on the end is actually a henna stencil, I would use it but I think it’s too nice just as something to look at, although I would love to have my hands properly painted in henna.

(Image taken from www.weheartit.com)

I can only imagine the first rule of the Southern Cavy Club is don’t talk about Cavy club. A gorgeously coloured excerpt from a poster nabbed during refurbishments at my day job in a pet shop.

(If you’re curious that is: Southern Cavy Club, 7 Russell Way, Petersfield, Hants, GU31 4LD)

Looking round Worcester Museum and Art gallery, I found some lovely examples of type on old Pharmacy packaging, I find it such a shame that packaging these days isn’t nearly so interesting or beautiful. I’m very tempted to start a collection of old bottles and packets as a reminder of how product design used to be.

Art Gallery & Museum
Foregate Street, Worcester WR1 1DT

A postcard showing a gathering of Druids at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, picked up during a recent visit to the stone circle at Avebury.

Also found in Hereford Museum and Art Gallery

I’m in the mood for posting oddities, going with that I offer a (sadly not very good) photo of a two headed calf taken in Hereford Museum and art gallery (I LOVE hunting round small scale exhibitions for weird and wonderful objects).

Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Broad Street
Hereford
HR4 9AU.
Tel. (01432) 260692. Fax (01432) 342492

Spotted in Padstow museum

I’ve spent the last week on a family trip to Rock, near Padstow in Cornwall. We spent one day driving round the North of Devon to look for the graves of my mum’s ancestor’s so she could add them to her family tree. These gravestones in the village of Lamerton certainly caught my eye, the stones are dated from the 1700’s but they look like they might have been carved yesterday. I think I’m going to conduct a little investigation into what the different symbols around each skull mean.

A colour my mum would refer to as ‘a lovely sky blue pink’ (?!!)