Breakfast at the Skip

The newly opened Skip Restaurant at Peterhead harbour is going from strength to strength as a favourite eating place for the local gulls. . Apparently the rotten fish guts are just divine and to die for. The gulls tell me that it is bang on trend, whatever that means.

The "extra" is another dip into the Kodachrome boxes.The original  photograph was taken in Tonga, in 1972. The young women are beating the bark of the paper-mulberry tree into thin strips which will be used to make tapa cloth, or masi as it is often known.

In former times the cloth was used for clothing on the islands of the South Pacific, particularly Tonga, Samoa and Fiji. You can see a costume made from tapa in one of my earlier blips.These days cotton and other textiles have replaced tapa but it is still often worn on formal occasions such as weddings. Tapa is also widely used as decorative wall hangings and room dividers.