There's alot of urging around to GET RID OF THINGS AND SIMPLIFY life. I'm torn between my love of collecting and the idea of throwing at least a third away. Which of course means finding out if it any of it's recyclable, or saleable. One day I'll get around to the Ebay thing. Some of the objects I've gathered in my home are someone's rubbish.. precious pieces just thrown away: like this picture of a Tuscan scene which I found wedged behind a bottle bin in Casciana di Murlo (just outside Siena). It's signed 'LOBO' '87 if anyone knows the artist ?
I also found some glass wine flasks thrown away in the local recycle point which now are the big part of my Green Glass Collection. These take up more space in my already cluttered lifestyle but they also enhance it.
Finding them was like getting a surprise present. They were meant to be mine: rather like adopting an abandoned dog - a 'trovatello' ( a foundling ). I also collect egg shaped stones and ...oh yes there are the wine corks : It's not that I collect them really, I just don't throw them away. They used to look quite groovy, I thought, in a glass flacon but they've bred over the years and now I've had to hide the evidence of ALL THAT WINE in the garden shed. Actually we bought the garden shed to house all the wine corks.
But yesterday..Hurray!..I've found a great site with some amazing things to do with corks at *Terramia* so I'm inspired and will try and do something creative to show off on a next blog......
For advice on recycling in the UK recyclenow.com
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