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 - even though I say it myself. The ABC Collectors team had done a wonderful filming and editing job and I didn't appear to be half as nervous as I actually was.
Best of all, others have now seen the extent of my collection and are clamouring to help increase it.
The first person was a wonderful guy who left the following comment on this page.
Hi - I've just watched your segment on the 'Collectors'
I still currently use pegs made by residents of Morisset Psychiatric Hospital (NSW)in the 1980's as part of their rehabilitation to sheltered workshop employment.
They are yellow plastic-coated thick wire made on a large manually operated machine.
I contacted him by e-mail and he very kindly sent me four of the pegs.
But wait ... there's more ...
When he went to the post office to post them to me, he called in on his folks on the way and told them what he was doing .... upshot of it was they gave me some pegs too. These were made in the depression from fencing wire.
Aren't they fabulous?
I can't thank him enough.
But wait ... there's even more ...
Yesterday, two young children knocked on the door asking to see "Mr. Pegman". They had brought me a couple of new pegs too ..... and even made me a personalised pegman bookmark.
How lucky am I?
