Introduction

As a wearer in the Masterworks Broach of the Month Club 2010, Jo Mears and partner/BOM maker Sharon felt obliged to take Ross Malcolm's brooch 'In the Pink' on tour with them as they set out on a three week adventure with sixty other kombis around the South Island of New Zealand to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Volkswagen Type II in New Zealand.



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All the way to the Bottom!

All the way to the Bottom!

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Pink reminds Poppy that this blog is also about Volkswagens

Day Five and Six and Seven: The VW Nationals in Nelson and there abouts.
Found a nice stick insect called Wilbur while we were hanging out the washing in Carols Backyard on Friday. He thought Pink was lovely and wanted to take her up a tree.
Registered for the Nationals and had a wee look around Founders Park.  For some reason we have visited two historic villages this weekend, presumably because volkswagens are old and it sort of ties in to the historic theme, however, we are not 100 - 200 years old like the houses, machines and scary mannequins in these museums.
Went to the Nelson Markets on Saturday. Plenty of woolen and wooden handmade products for sale and lots and lots of scary bead jewellery. Bought some peanut butter and bad coffee.
Have not seen any interesting jewellery being worn around here.  No brooches in sight - only blue VW lanyards and nametags.  I did see one lady wearing VW earrings tho - golly.

Lined up for a wee convoy to Wakefield and the second old things museum. Convoys are funny things.  This time it appeared that the bunch we were in took the direct route and a whole lot of others went all over the place. Everyone made it there eventually tho and lots of people set up there BBQ's to cook some lunch.
Parked up next to Beth and Steve from Whangarei in their late bay. Notice the difference in front indicators and bumpers - earlies have a step on the bumper round the side, late bays have a big square thing with an ugly shock absorbing bit between bumper and bus.
Before the Bays came along in 1968 and 72 there were the split window varieties which originally had semiphores and a huge barndoor engine bay.  Our mechanic Frank has one of these but it has a few holes in the floors and walls and not much of a motor.  These are few and far between but a delight to see when they do come to the shows.  He brought his very original westfalia camper down this time (He has a rather large VW collection). 
The earliest splitties at the nationals are both 1956's (see the blue one below). The green one is probably a sixty something variety as it's indicators are quite big.
 I took heaps of photos, but have limited to those cars with most adornment:
Only two variants came this year which made me sad for a while. I still miss my orange one heaps. This one was a couple of years older than mine and had a cool roof rack.
Unfortunately nobody commented on Pink in busbus, so will have to get Joey to wear it more often. 
I did get a few comments on my UHU glue tho.  Frank and Jamie thought it looked handy and would be convenient for a bit of glue sniffing later on.  Peter reached out and grabbed it whilst saying he 'liked this thingy'. The american lady at Wollastons vineyard later on asked what its significance was and seemed surprised when I told her it was a brooch. 
A question to ponder: Do people often see objects on t-shirts that are not brooches or is it because this particular brooch is a readimade tube of glue,  therefore surely it must be there accidently?
 
Got bored after a while and took off to find Trout Valley vineyard via a 12 km stretch of dirt road. Couldnt find it so went to Wollastons instead.  Very nice sculptures, Very nice wine.  From memory these land brooches are by Christine Hellyar - please correct me if I am wrong because I also seem to be remembering that she did funny latex body bits rather than ceramic blobs on a stick.
Bought a few bottles of plonk and headed back to Nelson for a nanna nap.  Busbus was filthy dirty
so we took her through a car wash.

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