Spork

'Spork', a giant stone-eating worm, currently blocking a pavement near you. Has help from me, John McAddam, in maintaining account. Obsessed with cutlery.

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

This was just a piece of cardboard discarded from some packaging, but it looks like the speech bubble from a cartoon.

I don’t know if that’s why #Spork photoed it, but it likes to line its nest with newspaper and comics, so it’s certainly possible.

#SporkInSpringtime (6/6)

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

Six images from #SporkInSpringtime, starting with this piece of plastic, clinging to and somehow illuminating the tarmacadam.

#Spork (1/6)

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

This strange object turned out to be a sort of panda when I turned it over - I didn’t get a shot of that because #Spork ate it before I could.

But I like it this way up as a sort of #CycladicPanda.

#SporkInSpringtime (5/6)

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

@billherbert @ae_stallings #Spork took this photo of a sort of Cycladic bear tooth thing which seems, somehow, a reasonable response:

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

Happy New #StreetCutlery!

[Bill Herbert @billherbert]

Here’s a #CutleryTale for @StreetCutlery: in the old days, cutlery used to be sold separately, and so, as well as Spoonsmiths and Knife Merchants, there were an equal number of Forkers.

[Bill Herbert @billherbert]

@GBClarkson @IMcMillan @StreetCutlery I think we can see (once we switch off the cloaking field) that this is a rare view of a Catering Dalek.

[Jim Moir @JamesMoir10]

Painting the final section of the bug colour wheel.

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

Another photo from #Spork’s archive while I wait for it to wake from hibernation. This one it called ‘Tsststchchehlllllooooww’ (as far as I can transcribe the noises it makes):

[Prof. Frank McDonough @FXMC1957]

18 February 1871. Harry Brearley, credited with the invention of what became known as Stainless Steel, was born in Sheffield. His invention brought affordable cutlery to the masses, and saw an expansion of Sheffield’s traditional cutlery trade.

[Bill Herbert @billherbert]

One for @StreetCutlery, c/o @PulpLibrarian:

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

@billherbert Sorry, I should’ve numbered these.

The other thing I meant to say was: #Spork will eat these plastic fish if I don’t grab them quickly. It likes the salty hit and I don’t know if it knows what plastic is.

So, people, please don’t drop stuff on the pavement like this!

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

@billherbert Then there was this one. The way #Spork said it was like it was still thinking of the previous pics and they made a phrase: ‘Ooooohhh aaaaaa fffffffsssshhh!’

[Lego Lost At Sea @LegoLostAtSea]

Plastic ice cream spoons, all picked up from one Cornish beach. These don't float and often wash up with the kelp after winter storms.

[Leonora Carrington @LCarrington_Art]

I Want to Be an Insect

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

@ImogenForster2 I should add that, whenever #Spork looks at something with all its eyes at once, it’s rather disconcerting, like when a mantis looks at you; but when Spork only looks at something with two or three eyes, perhaps because it’s less interested, it’s even more disconcerting.

[Spork @StreetCutlery]

@ImogenForster2 I’m very slow with all this stuff, and as for #Spork , when I mentioned Bluesky it just raised all seven or eight of its eyes to the heavens and, as it’s rather grey here, looked as confused as an insect can.