Breakin' the law, breakin' the law...

Well, I wasn't, but I was stopped and searched by the police on the grounds that someone had phoned up to report my salvaging operations as "suspicious behaviour". I was caught in posession of 25 kilos of rusty steel! Not to worry. I suppose I could have been charged with being in possession of an offensive weapon as I has a garden trowel with me and a length of very heavy chain.

This is all because I got up really early today and couldn't be bothered with the car boot sale, but went instead to the gap site I visited last week to give it a proper search. I found loads more stuff, including the chain mentioned above - large pictures are posted on Flickr, see link on left.

I was super-methodical this time and traversed the site in overlapping strips, which took about three hours and gave me a sore neck! Treasures galore:







Another enamel sign. I have no idea how I managed to miss this one last weekend.
Unfortunately, I found something I never imagined I would find on a gap site in glasgow, this revolting object:





EEEEEEEEW!!!
It's a "pocket pussy" type thing. Bizarrely, on one side, as you can see, there is a vaguely woman-shaped thing clinging on; the lump directly opposite on the other side is a small kitten with a bow-tie. I didn't want to touch this to get a better picture and I couldn't make it roll over with the tip of my trowel, not that I even wanted to touch it with that!

Out with Microsoft products and in with open source!
Having bought the Linux eeePC a month or so back and having been using Firefox and OpenOffice for several years, I finally decided to go the whole hog and get rid of Microsoft Office, including Outlook. So I'm now running Thunderbird, Lightning and the OpenOffice suite. So far, the main difference I've noticed is that the computer starts up faster!
The main real difference, however, is that I can now keep everything synchronised between my computers.

The childhood excitement of finding a new record by a favourite artist returned to me this morning when I found out that there is a new CD of music by Gloria Coates, one of my firm favourites amongst modern composers. I'm listening to her 15th Symphony right now and it doesn't disappoint, a "Homage to Mozart" which blends a cloying Mozart melody (played backwards) with thumping percussion and bleak, stomach-turning glissandi. Marvellous! It was commissioned for the festival of Mozart's 250th anniversary year and was performed in Vienna. It is hard to imagine what the average Mozart fan would make of it. I like the idea of it being a bit of a scandal.

Other than that, it was a bit of an unremarkable day. I saw these awful things in a shop window:





and wondered who buys this shite.

Also on view in town today were these very well-fed, middle-class students, playing at politics and not quite getting it:





"Don't agonise: Organise"... they seem to have missed the whole point of anarchy. But look! One of them is wearing a ripped sweatshirt.
Daring!
Dangerous!
Whatever next?

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We all know that estate agents and property developers are the lowest of scum with their stupid spiky hair, black shirts and ties, cheap suits, (blonde highlights, D&G sunglasses, fake tan, white nails for females) and their low-end Porches on credit.
We all despise the way that they are collectively responsible for the recent collapse of the developed western economy.
Most of all, we hate them for their pretentious, overblown lies...





MANOR KINGDOM!
Think about that for a moment. This is the most pompous, bloated piece of pretentious puff I have ever heard.

MANOR KINGDOM!
They are selling poky one and two bedroom flats in a converted warehouse for fuck's sake.

MANOR KINGDOM!

Though now that I've written it three times, it sounds more like a shop which sells fake leather sofas. Of the sort which will probably end up in their shit little flats.

Well, I failed completely in my last post but the next day succeeded, having now completed 10 new pieces for Etsy and having started two more pieces. Here's my favourite piece so far:





I've put this up for sale but might well keep it.

It's a long time since I've been so fired up with ideas and haven't even been sleeping properly, which isn't good. I also need to get back to some of the other pieces that are lying about on the bench, such as the "Planet Claire" brooch and pendant set, and the "St Hubertus" pendant.

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After that ludicrous midweek footballing fiasco in Manchester, yet again, glaswegians prove themselves unfit to be allowed out of the confines of this foul ghetto. (Remember: the highest murder rate in Europe and the highest crime rate in the developed world.) I have GOT to get out of here.