Conversing with Smile Plastics (2)

Below is how the rest of the conversation with Smile Plastics mapped out:


-----Original Message-----From: Catherine Wilkinson [mailto:catherinewilkinson@rocketmail.com]Sent: 23 October 2009 20:02To: sales@smile-plastics.co.uk;cjw@smile-plastics.co.ukSubject: Second attempt :)


I am currently completing a project about the WellingtonBoot, It's been difficult to get support,
perhaps I should have gone down another route?
But then, all of a sudden, and thanks to the Google search,I discover Smile Plastics,and hope I'm no longer in the lurch. I am presenting to my peers on Wednesday, It's a bit like Dragons Den; you see, I've designed this product, put simply - it's a Wellington with a pen.
I'm dressing as an outlandish hippy to promote my festival wader,
I have to put on a 'groovy' show to get the listeners on my radar!I intend to start the presentationby referring to my tutor as 'dude',I hope he doesn't take offence,I hope he doesn't think it rude. I will then conduct a PowerPoint about my new creation,
A keepsake Wellington boot, which I hope will rock the nation.
But, alas, there I am, with the PowerPoint on the screen, Mind goes blank, I look down to my hands but NOTHING can be seen. What I am trying to ask, in a rather longwinded way, Is if I could please have some samples of your 'Recycled Plastic Sheet', 15cm x 10cm - or there around to my requirements this would meet.I look forward to hearing from you, thank you in anticipation, and I assure you,
that with your inputthe presentationwill beasensation Peace outCatherine Wilkinson


--- On Sat, 24/10/09, Colin Williamson <cjw@smile-plastics.co.uk> wrote:
From: Colin Williamson <cjw@smile-plastics.co.uk>Subject: RE: Second attempt :)To: "'Catherine Wilkinson'" catherinewilkinson@rocketmail.com>Date: Saturday, 24 October, 2009, 9:35 AMHi Fashionista CatherineThankyou for your poem. I think anybody who tries torhyme 'radar' with wader' deserves a first (you're not reading English though are you ? )And how could I refuse anyone with the same initials asmine.But CW You have made my generosity impossible to put into practice cos you haven't given me an address and also the post strike at the moment means that the chances of it getting to you by Wednesday are zero. You could download a few images off my website I guess, and use thoseOr you visit me here in Shrewsbury and you would not gohome empty handed
I await your next epistle with nervous anticipation.CheersColin
P.s. your tutor will be incredibly flattered to be referred to as 'dude'












-----Original Message-----From: Catherine Wilkinson [mailto:catherinewilkinson@rocketmail.com] Sent: 24 October 2009 10:56To: Colin WilliamsonSubject: RE: Second attempt :)

It's a good job that my project doesn't revolve around orange, otherwise all of this would be incredibly difficult!Please see below, your eagerly awaited response ...

Google helped me find you, so I refer to Google Maps,
Type in ‘Shrewbury’then ‘Preston’
And my idea seems to collapse.

The distance between us is alas too far and wide,
2 hours and 6 minutes,
so it seems in Preston I’ll reside.

But not all is lost,
As in this project there are so many stages,
Including a developmental sketchbook which has so many pages.

The samples could be used to show my thought process,
Pretending it’s coherent
Even if it is a mess

Later on in the project, When I work on my promotion
I could use the samples then
When the post service is in motion…

I have been conscious this time, not to digress
So please could you send some samples
To the following address:

78B Trinity Student village
Preston
Lancashire
PR1 2HF

May I also enquire, along my new line of thought
And with the previous idea, which I had to abort,
What is the largest size sample you are willing to send out?
Any way dude – 'see ya about'

Fashionista Catherine :)




The reply:

I drove through bloody Preston yesterday ! I curse only because of the monumental queues between Preston and the M6 going North, took me nearly an hour to get to the M6 from bloody Preston.

Anyway the good news is that the postal strike is now over and I can put a small sample in the post today and maybe you will get it.

If you wanted to drive to Southport, they have a sample there of wellie boot but it is about 9x9cm - in fact it is a coaster, if you told them that Colin said it was ok then I am sure they would give you one.

So, no more poems, I must insist
Although they will be sorely missed.
They're really not your well honed skill
Although I think they're oddly brill
Catherine, you'll be a fashion guru
Forget old Blahnik, forget older Choo
Vogue's front cover next September
An image that we'll all remember
Catherine's wellies for the world to see
And I can say, "she used to write poetreee"

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Colin Williamson
Smile Plastics Ltd
Rufford Road
Southport
PR9 8LA
www.smile-plastics.co.uk

What next?

I will keep checking the post regularly to see if the plastic arrives, as of yet it hasn't. The presentation is tomorrow. I am waiting for a Glastonbury wristband to arrive too - which I hope will enhance my presentation.