tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85876708184898893572008-08-27T03:41:26.693-07:00I 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.comBlogger32125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8587670818489889357.post-56071719275236112792008-03-06T17:44:00.000-08:002008-03-06T18:19:08.135-08:002008-03-06T18:19:08.135-08:00

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Here in Melbourne in the leafy suburb of Cheltenham, every Sunday, there is a "Trash and Treasure" market held in the undercover car park of the shopping centre. The market is run by the local Lions Club and although quite small, DB & I often walk along to see what treasures are there on offer. A few years ago, we wandered down and, would you believe it, there on a stall full of what looked like

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Well what did we find in New Zealand? Not another peg I hear you say! Yes you're right, but it was an unusual one shaped like a J and they are sold in bags of 100 for next to nothing. After the last posting, we needed a cheap one! Now then, I ask you, how does it work? Customers in their thousands are asking themselves the same question and consequently not buying them. When used correctly,

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My search for pegs takes me to many places and provides countless stories. The one I am going to tell you now, started on Monday October 9th 2006, the day Korea set off an underground nuclear bomb. At the time, we were staying with friends in Hong. DB (Dearly Beloved) and I woke up with just enough time to drink coffee and rush off in a taxi to the ferry terminal where we caught the high

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One hot and lazy summer, we were cruising in our narrowboat along the Grand Union Canal north of Warwick. We were heading for Kingswood Junction having just negotiated the 21 double locks in the notorious Hatton Flight. Not for nothing is this lock-flight known as "Heartbreak Hill" and as it had been a hard drive, DB took over the helm at the top and I went down below for a well earned nap. As

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Happy New Year to everyone. It promises to be a good year in Pegland and I am very much looking forward to telling you lots of stories!! This story is about my first postal delivery of 2007. Here in my part of the world, our postie rides a 90cc Honda motorcycle and drops our mail in the mailbox which is outside on the street rather than into the letterbox in the door like they do in UK.

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No more missing foot gloves ? Just when you think you can't be surprised, up comes another peg from a most unexpected direction. The green pegs at the top of this picture were a Christmas present and they are called "Wizzpegs" As you can see, it is cleverly designed to be lockable as well as moulded in one piece and the packet tells me it is for holding socks together to prevent the one sock

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