So, our old crap has ended up in the US First Home. According to today's Sunday Times, a pair of chandeliers made from discarded bottle caps, glass beads and recycled plastic trinkets by a small group of artists from the Klein Karoo town of Barrydale are hanging in the White House. This gives new meaning to the idiom “One man's trash is another man's treasure”. The chandeliers' creator was quoted as saying that “it's quite funny that we're turning trash into art and selling it to America”. Strange, that. Because we've been doing it for years. Apparently there are 50 000* whingers living there now.* This was a bit of a Wikipedia thumb-suck and does not mean to include those South African Americans who continue to fly our flag high across the Atlantic.
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