Last Saturday Róisín Ingle (smiling, happy person below) in her column in the Irish Times Magazine wrote “I recently discovered that it is possible to send a banana through the post. Write the address on the skin, stick a stamp on it and An Post will deliver it”. So I sat down and wrote Róisín a letter on a banana and sent it to the Irish Times Magazine. Now, I’m wondering how many other people did the same?
Honda used a banana in an ad in 2003 – this was the copy.
“Have you ever written on a banana in biro? Its crazy but it works like a dream. You wish all writing could be this way. It flows. It’s smooth. It’s sensual. You get the urge to write poems; sonnets; odes to lilies. A strongly worded letter of complaint is impossible. It makes you realise that everything can be improved. That even the familiar can be looked at in a new light. And that imagination is more powerful than knowledge. Do you believe in the power of dreams?”
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It’s true… writing on a banana with a biro is amazing.
I love getting post and although emails are taking over as the preferred method of communication there’s nothing like a letter or a postcard.
In 1898 W. Reginald Bray decided to send himself in the post. Before he took the big step of posting himself he tried it with turnips and rabbit skulls and even a packet of Russian cigarettes . When he died in 1939 he had successfully posted himself three times through the Royal Mail
Buy John Tingey’s The Englishman who Posted Himself and Other Curious Objects HERE
Permission to reproduce Ms Ingle's photograph is being sought.
The photograph advertising this post is the cover of John Tingey's book.