As some of you may have discerned and for those who have not, I am something of a Nerdy Geek or possibly a Geeky Nerd, take your choice.  And I am also fascinated by clever people who come up with truly oddball solutions to what to most people are still unfortunately remote or even non-existant problems.  In this case, the environment and how we have managed to totally fuck it up to such a critical point.  Then along come some truly clever people who are trying to do something about it in their own unique way.  And this is why I found the below absolute magic.

To begin with this was a gift brought to me by my friend Sue who has come to visit and try and recover after a terrible ordeal that ended with her losing 3 of her closest and dearest family members within the past 6 weeks.  First her Step mother who we knew quite well.  Then her mother who we we didn't know and then this past Sunday, Fathers day, her father died who we also did not know. 

This whole ordeal began last September when Susan got back to the UK after her annual holiday here in Spain.  And the day she arrived she was told that her mother had been diagnosed with lung cancer while she was away and that her step mother had fallen and was in hospital.  And her father, who was extremly ill had been put in a home until step mother could be released from hospital as he could in no way be alone. 

And as far as Susan, who lives in London, was concerened this became a very complicated operation because her mother lived in Cardiff and her step mother and father lived in Northern Scotland.  And then this was complicated further by the fact that while testing her step mother to discover why she had fallen and injured her self they also discovered she had concer.  In her case it was the liver and pancreas.

So poor Susan has been rushing back and forth, or perhaps more accurately, up and down the country since last September as one crisis after another developed in the respective domiciles.  One after another of her parents being put in hospital then released for a few weeks only to enter once again for more treatment.  None of which helped as you can discern for yourselves.

So, she called and asked if she could not come and visit for a few days as she simply could not take any more.  And there was no question as to the answer on our part as she is a very dear friend.  So she arrived yesterday and I, being the major therapist in the family  immediately took charge and led her round to my favorite watering holes for although Vino Tinto will not cure what she is suffering I was certain it would help her to sleep if appplied in sufficient quantities.  And she has just been around for a bit of brekkie and sure enough.  Doctor GOM's prescription was the correct one and she has slept very well.  The first time in months!  (I'm not just a pretty face you know.)

But among other things she had a little pressie for me.  The following.  Which has delighted me no end.

I'ts a rather special notebook*

This is a copy of their label.  Rather clever don't you think?

Below is a small booklet that is included with the package which gives you a quick description of how Poo paper is produced and also a small lesson on the Elephant itself.

And below you can see a sample of the paper itself.  Not suitable for the finest calligraphy perhaps, (It is a bit on the rough side.) but quite serviceable for note writing and the such.

If you go here you can learn lots more about Elephant poo, how it is produced, how you can order some and a short treatise on the actual factories and how they have been around, producing the raw material for this delightful product, for over 26 million years before someone got the idea to use it. 

We humans are a bit on the slow side don't you think?

*Even the ribbon's it was tied up in are the real thing.

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COMMENTS

Hola, Senor Malhumorado!
This is a wonderful thing, the paper made from elephant poop.  I am very
interested in this idea.
It is the first day of summer, and by gum, it's been sunny and has climbed
up to nearly 8o degrees F!  I mowed the side yard, pulled a bunch of weeds,
and treated myself to an ice cream cone at a new shop on our neighborhood's
shopping street.
Also learned that our next door neighbor's drunken little you-know-what of a
daughter, who's been throwing loud bash after loud bash since mommy and papa
went to Europe ahead of her, is gone now herself to Germany.  I hope she
falls off an alp!  She and her dozen or so boyfriends have been terrorizing
our block, and her parents are jerks, so there's no help from that quarter.
Well, maybe now we can catch up on our sleep.
Hope you guys are well.
Cheers,
Isabelita

Hopfully you will see more of the Elephant excrement in the near future.  Thinks are cooking away in the back room.    In the meanwhile perhaps your little slut of a neighbor could find a very deep lake to fall in.  They have a mumber of those in Germany also.  

GOM

I loved that notebook.  Great idea!

Konagod

Thanks K.  See the above for a smell of the future that is coming your way soon.