Ermagerd! Ermagerd! More lists??
It was bound to happen, wasn’t it? Give someone a tiny bit of attention or exposure and it goes to their head. They start getting wild ideas and before you know it, they’ve lost their marbles, throwing their art around all over the place and up your nose.
No apologies, but thanks to the suggestions of many, I decided to leave another list laying about. My youngest is enjoying all the fun that ‘The Shopping List’ has brought, and enthusiastically left Shopping List No.2 (or S.L.2) in a Trolley on Fri 30th March. We waited. And waited. Nothing. Zilch.
‘Ho-Hum’, we thought as the week drew on and forgot about it. But, (unlike the first list), we remembered to take a photo before we went shopping. There’s a pic further down of S.L.2 (I missed a trick there, I should have drawn a reference to ‘On a Ragga Tip‘* or something.
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So, did we give up? No! Sunday (2nd Apr) saw the Pickle family off to Tesco again, same Tesco as the previous 2 shopping lists. We do shop there a lot and have done for well over 25 years. It’s a good Tesco.
This time, I wrote the list whilst sitting in the car, as Vikki did the fuel, so tried a different ‘style’ of shopping list. This time, I tried to incorporate all of the items in the list into one coherent picture, nearly managed it too, but later, noticed I’d forgotten the baked beans in the drawing!)
This particular Sunday didn’t require a trolley, so I had a basket on my lap and was in charge of the list. When we got to the till, the plan was to leave it in the basket for a lucky Tesco employee to find and brighten their hard working day.
Oops.
When we got to the tills, I remembered that I hadn’t taken a photo of the list. Panicking and hoping I wasn’t noticed, I carefully used my phone (which was luckily ready to use for the clubcard – phew!) I was sweating and nervous at this point. As my finger clicked on the button, the phone made a noise and the photo was taken. I hastily flipped over the list and took another.
No-one saw. I felt the adrenaline as I dropped the list into an empty basket in a pile of similar baskets. Mission accomplished. I breathed a sigh of relief and helped pack the shopping.
We went home, even consumed some of the things on the shopping list for tea/supper. Then, almost immediately forgot about the list again.
Until today! My son’s mate’s mum, Claire, works at the same Tesco, and she knows about the first S.L. and has been following it’s fun progress. This morning, she WhatsApp’ed the Mum’s n Dad’s group “Thanks.” (see below)
Woo and Yay, Houpla and Huzzah! *Drumroll*………. The S.L.3. has been found!
It was found by ‘Danni’. I’m not fully aware of all the details as to it’s discovery, or subsequent adventures, but I have been assured Danni was ‘Well chuffed‘ and the list is ‘living on our work desk now‘. That has made my week! Thanks to Danni and Claire for letting me know!
Here’s S.L.3. Before ‘the drop’. (Note the tesco floor as I secretly took the pic)
SL3 – Front:
The Third Shopping List; With a pig, punting a chicken along the river on a bread and butter raft as a carrot runs free on the bank of the river..
No baked beans were hurt in the making of this list. Because I forgot to draw them.
SL3 -Back:
Featuring a Chook from the future.
And, because I like to spoil you…. Here’s
SL2: ‘The Second List – Missing presumed binned’.
Title – S.L.2. – On a Shopping Trip.
Grapes on the beach on a hot day in California.
Happy cherries.
Pizza – Being eyed up by Leonardo TMNT. – All 3 kids did something awesome recently, so nicer pizza than usual as a little reward (amongst others during the Easter break), they’re good kids and deserve it!
Milk – obvs.
Sugar – Sing-along-if-you-know-it – Made famous by the inventors of said substance, ‘The Archies’, a band from yesteryear (1969 -The summer of sugar), not only discovered sugar whilst mountaineering in Holland, but also sang a song about it and how, after comparing it to honey, realised the similarities and really liked the results.
Ready Salted Crisps – or ‘plain’ crisps. It’s worth remembering that the crisps we consume were once beautiful, free-range potatoes, foraging for food and roaming the landscape of countries like Ireland, England, Jersey and the Serengeti. Sometimes hunted for their skins, sometimes hunted for their flesh. Makes you think, doesn’t it? I don’t know what about.
Kiwi Fruits – I couldn’t bring myself to draw Kiwi-Knackers. So I censored it and cleverly got away with it. It doesn’t look much like a Kiwi, but you’re too pre-occupied thinking of testicles to notice.
Recycled – Of course. I won’t be cutting any trees down to write a shopping list. Apart from the impossiblility of carrying around a tree whilst shopping, I’d be overflowing with old envelopes, they’d stack up and up, then I wouldn’t be able to go shopping, or leave the next list somewhere, because my house will be full of envelopes that could have been recycled. I would be trapped.
Fbook address to pickledpizza.art – I decided to put a way of finding me/ contacting me to save the ‘ i found this, does anyone know who did it’ part – I loved it first time, but I think some people might just bin it or be negative if I keep being anonymous.
SL2 – The Back
P.T.O. – You’d be forgiven for presuming or assuming that P.T.O. stands for Please Turn Over, but it’s a common misconception. It actually stands for Page Transformation Organisation. Founded some time ago, The Page Transformation Organisation or ‘Patranorgan’ for short, discovered, during routine experiments in page-transformation that test subjects were observed losing concentration very rapidly, often turning over the whole page before getting to the end of the Header, which simply read: “P.T.O. – Organised but Transformative Page Research and development.”
Further tests revealed that just the initials of the organisation was enough to make even the tallest test subjects turn the page involuntarily.
To this day, P.T.O can be seen on shopping lists and tattoos across the world. Apart from the countries that don’t use the letters P, T or indeed, O. They have other symbols and letters for that.
Chook – A lovely chook from the future.
Disclaimer – As someone on the KentOnline article said that it is littering to leave a shoppinglist in a trolley by accident may be delighted to know that I’ve decided not to do it accidentally, as this is littering. So I’ll do the opposite, because leaving them deliberately is art, for free, as a donation to the good people of Thanet.
Smiley – It’s a smile. we all need those as much as possible.
Where next?
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Dean Perry aka pickledpizza 