Hair Today

Wonderful bloggie friends, what, I hear you ask, are these?

These are hair booms and a brainchild of A Matter of Trust.

We all know of the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico – well these lovelies are used to help soak up the spill!

And what are they made out of?

This:

and these:


Human Hair + Nylon tights.

Oh and pet hair and waste wool.

According to this article from the BBC, “Hair is an extremely efficient material for taking in all kinds of oils including petroleum”

A Matter of Trust have been co-ordinating donations of discarded human hair, wool and pet fur from salons, farmers and pet groomers.

Now isn’t that just amazing? Amidst such a catastrophe there is a tiny glimmer of hope when humans and furry creatures cooperate to help stem this environmental disaster.

Charlie says: I've found a box to put your hair in. It had shoes in it but I gave those away.

Have a hair-raising Saturday everyone!

Waiting for techno-dot

My pc is still dead.

The techno dude or dudette from faraway Dell Inc who are the only ones able to revive it are still to call to make an appointment.

In the meantime I am trying my best to keep up with the blog universe using my out of date and about to collapse laptop from last century.
:-)

In the meantime too, I have also been thinking. Stop laughing at the back, please!

Techno stuff are great but they tend to go out of date so quickly and each time they are replaced, a mountain of the clunky beasts that are no longer de riguer festers in some landfill somewhere.

So I was most glad to find these wonderful people who do the most amazing things with unwanted and no longer needed things.

Like these rather fab jewellry!

Zipper bracelets.

Total cost - nada. You just need tools and a lot of patience!

This is the portion where Charlie normally says something.

At the moment he is fast asleep and mumbling: "Yay, no more flashy thing!"

Have a creative Saturday, everyone!

Light at the end of the tunnel

Beautiful bloggie friends – what would you do with bits of wood and pieces of discarded wheels from old toys?

You may wish to create something like this:

This doggie is called Albie and is a creation of JamesPlumb associates and yes it is made entirely of reclaimed used bits and pieces.

Now wouldn’t it be great to take Albie walkies in the evening?

I think so!

Today I was looking through my pics of Charlie and the litter tray that my neighbour gave me and then it struck me.

An idea for my women’s magazine story!

Now that’s a kind of recycling isn’t it? The names of the characters will of course be changed to protect the innocent!

Charlie says: Just how many pairs of shoes have you got in this recycled pic?


May you all find your own lights at the end of your personal tunnels!

Have a Happy nearly Friday day, everyone!

How I nearly recycled myself, an Award and Twilight

The story of How I nearly recycled myself.

As always on the way home, I throw my newspapers in the recycling bin. This time I realise too late that I had also tipped in an important letter.

Unfortunately the bin had just been emptied.

I could see my papers and that letter laying right at the bottom. I am just over 5 feet. The bin comes up to my chest.

I think I can reach it.

I stand on tippy toes. One hand holds the bin cover open, the other tries to reach down. The bin has wheels. It is also about 2 feet wide and very, very, very heavy

Weighed down by the volume of my body, it tips over at an angle.

I nearly fall in head first. Luckily no-one was around to hear such blasphemy!

In the end I use my umbrella. Luckily no-one was around to hear such blasphemy!

When I tell Charlie, he is completely unimpressed.

Sigh.

ANYWAY! I have a lovely award from Kim at Fuzzy Tales and TK and Squashies of Furrever Home .

Thank you so much! I know most of my bloggie friends already have this award and if you don't, then please may I nominate you? You all bring me sunshine on rainy wet days like today so you all deserve this and more! Yay!

Oh and calling all TWILIGHT FANS!!! A date in your diary. Stephanie Meyer is going to publish her upcoming novella The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner online for free between 7 June - 5 July 2010 online. Which is very nice of her to do so and even nicer of her to pledge a donation for any hardback copies sold to the American Red Cross.

Have a lovely Wednesday everyone!

How to... be rejected and be informed

Do sing-a-long!! And please note the important message too. Thanks to Robyn at Love and Hisses for posting it on her blog.



Now here is another video - with a very, very, very important message. Please recycle your plastic bottles - but always remove the top, otherwise it renders the recyling useless. However I am most disappointed with this video. It should have been like the cat one! This one just tries too hard to be "funky" and for me is just irritating. Maybe it's cos I'm old?!?!

What do you think?

Take Your Top off! from Glenda Duarte on Vimeo.

And I'm always in awe reading the Rejecter blog. No-one likes rejection. But if it were from these two, I wouldn't mind!

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Have a lovely Tuesday everyone!

And please neuter and spay and take your tops off and don't be too dejected with rejection - just picture rejection coming from these two lovelies!