tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85876708184898893572009-11-10T03:50:15.401-08:00I collect the humble clothes peg and this blog is a method of sharing my stories with others who may be interested ..... if not in pegs, then in the stories of my pursuit of pegs. Please feel free to comment on any entry.Pegmaniachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14815037568721862224noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587670818489889357.post-64087411292302134962009-06-17T05:43:00.001-07:002009-06-17T07:34:24.161-07:00

We recently went to see fellow peglomaniac, Maarten, and his huge collection of washknippen in Holland. Fortunately, we had no language problems as he and his family all speak perfect English and it was lovely to catch up with them after three years.Soon, the garden table was covered in pegs for us to sort through, discuss in great detail.Naturally, Maarten and I soon got down to the serious

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We were in Singapore for a short stopover when DB found a small advertisement in a tourist brochure and suggested it might have a peg department ..... enough said! There was no stopping me ... I was off like a shot ....We had a map but we must have looked a bit confused when emerging from the metro station in Little India. A lady, with her small son, offered to help us. Even though she was

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What would you do if you had just one day to spend in Sydney?Go to Susannah Place of course!Why ? Well, it is a fascinating place. For one thing, there is a pub there which, apart from serving great beer and amazing pizzas, has the longest table that DB has ever seen in her entire life.... plus a glorious log fire which warmed the cockles of our hearts on a really cold day.. Across the road

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On a recent trip to New Zealand, something made me look on Ebay France for pegs. In France they are called "pince a linge".There was an old (ancienne) wooden peg with a price of 5 Euros. I do not speak French and as I could not understand where the seller was prepared to ship to, I took a gamble and entered my bid.I was then nervous that the seller wouldn't post it to Australia so I typed out a

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On a recent foray into Ebay Singapore (pardon me for advertising) I made a bid on a "Hello Kitty" peg. I had bid $4.00 and a few days later found that I was the successful bidder.I wrote to the seller and asked whether she was prepared to post the peg to Australia and asked what the cost would be.She replied that if I lived in Melbourne, she would deliver it to me as she was flying in for one

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I have a best friend in England who has connections in India .... more precisely, in Calcutta. Well, actually it is now known as KOLKATA, but sounds the same.Knowing we were about to visit this city, my friend very kindly arranged for us to stay in the company flat which came with a driver as well as our own houseboy.We arrived after a long flight. We had been required to change planes in Dubai

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I am not a superstar, you understand, but .... I have to say, that I have now attended my first "Premiere". Friends of mine hosted an evening where we all viewed the Collectors programme on the ABC. Some had even dressed for the occasion in hats or ties covered in clothes pegs and one fabulous young man had hand painted a vest with "Go Pegman" emblazoned upon it.The programme was excellent -

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Most Friday nights, over the last 5 years, a program is shown at 8pm on the ABC Television channel called “The Collectors”.As the name implies the half hour program features Australian personal collections. The first quarter of an hour covers a main collection and the three members of the panel then ask the collector questions.In December, I had been filmed, along with my collection and had been

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I think I shall have to replace my photographer ... these are the photos she took in Jerusalem of a magical evening with three other peg enthusiasts .... I know it was dark, but honestly they do not do justice to the evening. One of the most memorable in a long long time!

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There has been an acute shortage of blogs lately because I am travelling again.On this trip there have been a few peg experiences which I shall relate to you later, but one of the most brilliant has been the meeting of minds in Jerusalem.I am in an Intnet cafe in India at the moment and the computer is refusing to upload the photos that DB took.I will try again at a later date .....till then, my

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Are you sitting comfortably? Well make sure you are because I have a story to tell and some pictures to show you.For the last seven years I have been building a "Cutler" style roll top desk. I have constructed it almost entirely from Australian River Red Gum which I have bought as rough planks from a lovely guy who runs a wood yard in the Barmah Forest in deepest Victoria.Red Gum is an

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Well here is a strange looking item in my collection. Strictly speaking it shouldn't be there, but it is still a peg and illustrates one of the many uses that the humble clothes peg has been put to.Apparently, when televisions were first introduced into America and they had more than one channel, the TVs weren't equipped with the means to change the channel ... can you believe that? No remotes?

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Well, I am finally back to a computer and can tell you a tale about my Bangkok experiences. On our way to England, in May of this year DB and I stopped off in Bangkok for five days and whilst she went in search of fripperies like crystal tiara's and silken pashminas, I continued my serious search for pegs. One day we took the skytrain to Chatuchak Market which is only open on Saturdays and

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You may have noticed a shortage of blogs lately and I have to say that I have been a little bit sidetracked what with overseas visitors and the mad scramble to get my new storage system up and fixed before our departure for foreign lands.I am hoping to see some new places in the world this year, but in the meantime have been seeing a little more of Australia. This photo was taken on Melbourne's

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I am always amazed when I see other people's collections and I wonder how they manage to catalogue them in order to know exactly what they have got and what they have not. This doesn't just apply to pegs of course, I recently saw a television program about a guy collecting dice ... he had thousands and thousands and I cannot begin to imagine how he knows what he has or hasn't got in his

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Happy Easter everyone. I thought I'd take this opportunity to show you a few of my Easter pegs .... hope you like them. They were a present from DB's sister.I have more easter pegs to come ... but have to rush out now as we are having an Easter Barbie in the hills with some friends.p.s. .....I'm back now and here is a virtual Easter Egg for you!!

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Who says Pegs are boring? Well this posting is all about a boring matter.Just in case some of you were thinking that I was so obsessed with pegs that I couldn't manage to think about anything else, I would like to share a recent experience with you.The other day DB and I went to a local timber yard which sells old railway sleepers and garden timber. In the corner of the yard was a steel cage

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Those that know me will be aware that I talk a bit. Well, to be honest, I talk quite a lot. Some of my blogs are a bit lengthy too, so I have devised a cunning plan for those of you who want to see the photos but don't want to plough through all the words.If you look to the right of my page underneath the archives list, you will see that I have added a photo album. Just click on the picture

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As an avid collector, I naturally watch for clothes pegs and pins to be listed for sale on EBay.Some years ago, I was doing my daily search and "6 Art Deco clothespins plastic or bakelite" came up for auction. with a starting price of US$25.I was hugely excited by these pegs and kept a very close watch on them during the following week. Nobody bid on them at all and the auction was due to

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I have always thought that the sales of a particular washing detergent could be increased if they offered a free clothes peg in each packet.Well, here it is, courtesy of Surf. There are two sizes and it looks as if he is wearing a tie. Does he look a bit rude hanging on the line or is it my imagination?

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Well, if you look at my previous posts, you will see that lots of people are jumping on the bandwagon with soft grip clothes pegs.I've recently been on a trip to the Taranaki area of New Zealand ... where we stayed at the best motel on earth ... and what did I find in one of the shops in New Plymouth? You've guessed it, another soft grip clothes peg.This one has been made in China for a company

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I've just had a great holiday in New Zealand (where I found 3 new pegs) and on my return I found that a large parcel had arrived.With mounting excitement I saw that the sender was another peg collector... and the customs form said it contained pegs. Yippeeee!!! Now I don'tlike to rush things and so to lengthen the suspense, I opened the box, got myself a cup of coffee and pulled the pegs out one

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So ..... would you buy them?

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One crisp autumnal day, DB & I left England and flew into the heat and dust of Cairo. From our tenth floor bedroom in the hotel, the view was of rooftops covered in a thick layer of dirt and detritus (bricks, timber, pallets etc.). It was as dry as if it hadn't rained for the last thousand years and the number of satellite dishes on each roof had to be seen to be believed. Below us was what

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Today's illustration is of two "Hurricane Grip" pegs which are manufactured by Technical Moulded Systems located in Staffordshire, U.K. They are designed to hold your washing on the line through a hurricane. I can't say I ever hang out my washing when a hurricane is due, but I understand that upwards of 66 million of these are made each year. Joking aside, it is an excellent design. As you can

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