Get the hankies out, folks - former guardian of this column, Branston Cowdell, has sadly left us to travel this vast globe in search of ‘himself’ (we bought him a nice mirror as a leaving present, but apparently this didn’t help). We had a fitting party here at the office to see him off though - ‘overloaded’ cocktails, ‘dumpster diving' sandwiches, scantily clad skip chicks... all his old faves.
But fear not, bulging waste fans - Skip Watch lives on and it seems the world is still rife with overloaded skips. Your snaps continue to be the source of many a giggle here at The Skip - please do keep them coming.
The first photo, above, is one I spotted myself in the car park of a Tameside pub (I was there strictly for business reasons, of course). It was such a work of art that it could almost have been mistaken for one of Kevin Harman’s sculptures (as featured in this very edition of "The Skip"). The subtle use of doors as ‘greedy boards’ was holding in a colourful array of waste, nestling snugly beneath a couple of cosy duvets, all topped off beautifully with an upturned wheelbarrow to finish. A few more beers, and I might have been tempted to crawl in for a snooze.
However, I’ve rarely seen such an extravagant example of ‘greedy boarding’ as this month’s winning picture, which comes courtesy of Des from Doncaster. Thanks Des - it’s simply a-door-able!
Can you beat it? Get snapping those overloaded skips while you’re out and about. Email your entries through to at us
or post them to -
The Skip Magazine
Unit 5 Baxall Business Centre
Adswood Road
Stockport
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