Citizensheep » Digpuss shop now open for window-shopping

7 June, 2009

This post is in: Birmingham, Fun stuff, Ramblings

Digpuss shop now open for window-shopping

Once upon a time, not so long ago, there was a little girl and her name was Nicky. And she had a shop.

Actually that’s not quite true: Nicky doesn’t actually have a shop. What she does have is a website, a Flickr account and a load of junk.

It was rather an unsual shop because it didn’t sell anything. You see, everything in that shop window was a thing that somebody had once lost and Nicky had found…

That bit is true. Nicky finds junk lying around the streets of Digbeth and blogs about it.

…And brought home to DiGpuss. Nicky’s cat DiGpuss.

Actually the cat in question is called Flossy, but hey; the point is that Flossy now has a lot of junk. You can see her latest acquisitions here.

I keep meaning to write about this (now spurred into action by spotting that Nicky Getgood has finally blogged about it too) because it’s partly my fault that DiGpuss exists. It was the brainchild of Shona McQuillan many moons ago – although of course Nicky’s been collecting her rubbish for some time – and I promised to turn it into something visual. Five months later I finally came good on that promise.

I say ‘good’; the images don’t display properly in Internet Explorer and the links don’t work in Opera, but everything’s ok in Safari and Firefox. One day we might fix that. It’s all done with HTML and CSS; no scripting except a bit of php to pull the rss feed from Flickr.

But it’s fun. So go on, pay a visit to DiGpuss.