Saturday, December 30, 2023

RSPCA ALERT : BULLDOG BOXED IN

 Little Darwin's pet headless bulldog is now  housed  in a   crowded   new kennel -the  top shelf of  a bookcase, The space  includes a  mounted collection of tin  badges and medals , a celluloid  duck  clothes brush , a carved  wooden canetoad, a  miner's relic from the  Pine Creek  goldfield in the Northern Territory, a kangaroo  bookend , a  perforated Swedish wooden spoon, a Canadian totem pole ,a piece of Darwin trench art featuring  bullets , a Chester Imp  doorknocker from King's Cross, Sydney ,  mineral specimens, some Pete Steedman tapes.

Readers of this strange blog will recall that the  bulldog -minus its head -was   aptly found  by an English woman digging up an old dump at Saddleworth, South  Australia .