Man city – they milka the cow
No commentary is needed on this story about Derek the Hyde backward, as featured in the increasingly pathetic Chadderton Evening News. Just look at the picture (in glorious full length below). Enjoy his bottom ends and his snide Le Coq shirt and be glad you were born a red…
A dad of one has become a master model-maker – building animals out of discarded fag packets.
Derek Fitton, 46, cuts up the boxes he finds in the street and weaves the cardboard strips into three-dimensional beasts.
His biggest so far is a 5ft 3in giraffe but since learning the technique from his dad he has turned hundreds of boxes into an array of animals.
Derek, from Hyde in Tameside, said: ”I’ve got dogs, a couple of lions, a kangaroo, a big giraffe and I’m currently working on a gorilla that’s going to be as big as me.
“I couldn’t even guess how many cigarette packets have gone into them.
“How long they take to make depends on how long it takes me to collect enough boxes.”
Unemployed Derek, who only smokes roll-ups, collects the packets while out walking his dog. He tries to go as early as possible, before street cleaners come out, and regularly collects up to 50 packets in half an hour.
Derek, of Chapel Court, cuts the top and bottom off the boxes and flattens them.
He cuts the card into strips, which he weaves into squares. The squares are then transformed into animals without any glue or tape.
Derek’s dad, Eric, pioneered the technique in the 1960s, making little dogs.
A cousin told Derek the story and inspired him to have a go. He said: ”I do sometimes think about the effect on the environment. I’ve got that many plastic bags full of boxes and that’s just the start of what’s out there.
“If I wasn’t turning them into animals, they’d have to go somewhere.”
I like the paper border he’s put up and the settee matches the blue and yellow walls…….
We should buy the 5ft 3in Giraffe to lead the midgmos……
hold it I think i’ve had a pair ot those slippers…..
The Giraffe’s legs are stockier than the backwards…
does anyone not quite belive him and suspect an elaborate ploy to conceal dimp picking?
Is that a path he’s stood on or is that bush causing the grass to be mossy?
You’ll notice how not all of his fingers are in view.
Backwards-they milka da cow.
He’s definately pulled the side of his shorts out to reveal the ‘superbio in battlelio’ badge. Can we show his work at cycm?
contact him
he could bring his sofa and we could display them on that. It’d be a bonus if he could bring his path.
‘my dad was a pioneer’ you’d pay alot of money to hear dek say that.
You know what, he’s growing on me, he’s a bringer of joy. That’s his job, for reds he’s never going to be ‘unemployed derek’
Just when to save picture on my cumputer and comes up with Divcamel brilliant!!!
Can he do a big white elephant?
The Divcamel is made up of 3007 bits fag packet of card. Of which 3000 came from the Manchester area.
The Divcamel can be seen in their thousands grazing on the hills above Blackburn….