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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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9:16a - message in a bottle - left in Crows Nest park, Sunday 11.30am
Each week, a decorated matchbox with a tiny present hidden inside is left by a girl (and sometimes willing friends) somewhere in her travels. It's a random act of semi-artistic kindness aimed at disrupting someone's day in a tiny but positive way. That's if they dare to pick it up...
It was almost like the Princess and the Pea. Almost. Late Sunday afternoon, I had fallen asleep listening to Lennon and surrounded by books, magazines and coloured pens. It was a restless nap because I was very sick and something kept digging into my back. It wasn't my glasses (thank god! They were still on my face..) but this - a tiny little bottle with blank scrolls in it that I'd bought a few weeks earlier for a matchbox. How it found its way into my bed I'm not entirely sure.
Sadly, I awoke not a princess but covered in bedsheet and book creases. Lovely. This box reminds me of The Police song, which my father listened to repeatedly on family road trips when I was a kid. Twenty years on it can still get stuck in my head without even having to hear it.
Last week my good buddy Angela and her boy Rich texted me at 2am. They had spent a cold London evening making matchboxes with Rich's family (how cute! A family craft night). They left their first - where else but at the top of the Eiffel Tower and what a view!
The second, containing puzzles and a mysterious but cute penguin thing was left last night, at The Dorchester in London. They said Naomi Campbell, Elle McPherson, Jemima Khan and Kate Moss had dined there the night before - and what a shame because what if Kate Moss had found a matchbox?? She could have given it to her daughter! haha
Thanks heaps guys! They've got a couple more boxes to drop... what about Buckingham Palace or that massive ferris wheel - the London Eye? Though how you would leave it in there without the attendant seeing I don't know - I've always wanted to leave one at the Luna Park ferris wheel but it's logistically tricky...
S
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