Last week we went down to the sunday markets, and I found some lovely pieces of leather on the leather man’s stall. Although he didn’t have any of the divine gunmetal metallic I have used in the previous work, I will get some more in time, I am sure. What was good value this time was a piece of beautiful fine black suede, and a large piece of good even quality black leather, about half a bull I’d say, for about equivalent of $2o-00. I bought it; he probably thinks at last I am going to stop fooling around with little bits and make myself a jacket or vest or something. There were various dyed hides, too, but none of the pretty dyed lapin that is a la mode just now. eg. DH took a lapin/rabbit handbag, dyed pink, to DD a couple of weeks ago, pink being her signature colour and all, it will go well with the black and cream she wears a lot. People have been wearing a lot of fur scarf/boa things this year, and I have even seeen serious new fox shoulder pieces. Some of these things, rabbit for examble, are farmed, and others are declared vermin and can be taken. Unfortunately despite animal protection laws here, there are lots of instances where these laws are flouted. No honest business would sell black market skins and items made from protected species, but it is amazing what you find and see at times out on the market stalls. As with contraband cds, it is fascinting how quickly and neatly such a stall can be converted into one that sells something entirely different, and innocent, like household pots or alarm clocks….