News — A5

Pulp Has Pleasing And Beautiful 2024 Diaries You’ll Actually Want to Use (please note the use of italics for emphasis.) Chums, I know it’s relatively early to be yapping on about 2024 diaries, but time moves in mysterious ways. It can slither at a snail’s pace across prosaic routines and travel down the highway of everyday life like a speed demon. Who knows what mood it’ll be in when it wakes up?’ So, while we’re sitting pretty here on Friday the 13th, you can bet your bottom dollar that while you’re avoiding black cats and prepping Halloween lolly bags, it’ll...

Imagine submerging your used computer in soil. Along with all the notes, memos and E-vites that you’ve sent and received through it. Yeah, the same computer that cost you three grand and is now obsolete after only a few years. So you dig a hole, place the laptop in the hole, then cover and water. Wait 3 weeks, and guess what you’ll get? Yep, a whole lotta nuthin’. Actually, worse than nothing: E-waste is pretty toxic! BUT, what if you had used notes, cards, old messages, and wedding invitations that could be planted and sprout a beautiful garden filled with...

Let’s play a game of True or False about cotton! It’s stronger when wet …  There are over 50 different species of the cotton plant Cotton plants produce fruit!  You can’t eat it (but horses can … Yum,  I guess … for them). Cotton was the first plant to be grown on the moon. Now for the reveal. Drumroll, please … Yes, they are all true. Also, and most fittingly for us here at Pulp, cotton was one of the first materials to make paper. A strong but soft material, which most of us associate with getting dressed in the...