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| feral trade couscous |
| Couscous from wholeground wheat flour, rolled, sifted, steamed and sun dried by hand - a dying art - in the village of Khoukhate, Morocco. US Peace Corps volunteer Cynthia Berning designed the labels and printed them out in Fez, 5 hours away by public transport.
ferally traded since: 28/04/09.
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| | FER-1483 | | Association Ennahda Khenifra, Morocco to HTTP gallery London, UK | | dispatched 28/04/09 delivered 30/04/09 |
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| couscous shipment FER-1483
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| REMARKS: | |
| QTY: | 20 units at bag each |
| FROM: |
Association Ennahda in Khenifra, Morocco
http:// |
| TO: |
HTTP gallery in London, UK
http://www.http.uk.net |
| SENDER: | Cynthia Berning |
| RECEIVER: | kate rich |
| REQUESTED: | to ship between 19/03/09 and 13/06/09 |
| STATUS: | delivered HTTP gallery 30/04/09 |
| MAP | route map |
| www.feraltrade.org |
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COURIER:
 Cynthia Berning
kate rich
ruth catlow
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| TOTAL ROUTE:
Association Ennahda-Marrakesh airport-London Luton airport-Manor House tube station--HTTP gallery |
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| couscous Association Ennahda to HTTP gallery
1. cynthia berning luton airport 2. luton bags repack 3. couscous bag 4. US peace corps luggage 5. luton couscous transpacked 6. cynthia berning luton london train 7. cynthia berning carte de sejours 8. couscous bag lighter reseal 9. cynthia berning st pancras station 10. CBC radio studio 11. couscous furtherfield car 12. ruth catlow couscous http gallery |
| Shipping Facts |
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| FER-1483 import purchase & freight
| | 20 x couscous bag | gross | per bag |
| ground transportation to marrakech | £1 |
£0.05 |
| ryan flight marrakech to london luton | £50 |
£2.50 |
| train (2 tickets) luton to london | £21 |
£1.05 |
| tube st pancras to oxford circus | £1.6 |
£0.08 |
| tube russell square to manor house | £2 |
£0.10 |
| car green lanes to HTTP Gallery | £0 |
£0.00 |
| total | £75.6 | £3.78 |
| | Courier Report FER-1483 DISPATCHED: 28/04/09 DELIVERED: 30/04/09 kate rich Arrived at Luton airport arrivals meeting point for email-arranged 1430 meeting with Cynthia. Whilst waiting I made a Feral Trade sign to aid mutual recognition. Ryanair flight from Marrakech was late in, as an extra precaution I had Cynthia paged from the red courtesy telephone in departures. Cynthia appeared & we proceded to transpack the couscous from her rolling luggage into mine. Couscous had shipped in a taped up cardboard box, only 1 bag split during handling. Some couscous grains abandoned on Luton airport concourse floor as a trade momento. Departed airport with Cynthia on the shuttle bus to Luton Parkway station, where couscous rolling luggage got briefly stuck in the automated ticket barriers but some random guy forced them open & bag was freed. Thence 40 minutes by train to central London, taking notes. Cynthia has been in Morocco 8 months with the US Peace Corps & is returning for a further 18 months, after a 8 day vacation in texas where she's attending the wedding of a friend from college. Appraoching central London we resealed the broken couscous bag using Cynthia's cigarette lighter to fuse the plastic. Disembarked at St Pancras, where I showed Cynthia the most likely spot to pick up free wifi overflow from Eurostar departure lounge, before her onward tube transit to Heathrow & red eye flight to New York. I then travelled via tube despite swine flu level 5 alert to Oxford Circus, walked a couple of blocks to Great Titmarsh street. Couscous was briefly warehoused at CBC radio studios where I recorded an interview about its arrival for the technology show Spark: Tech, Trends and Fresh Ideas. Onward tube to Manor House where couscous & courier overnighted at the home of HTTP directors Ruth & Marc on Green Lanes. AM couscous luggage was hauled back downstairs & travelled the final few blocks in Ruth Catlow's car to HTTP gallery, where it was stored in the upstairs residency accommodation. |
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| freight and handling couscous to HTTP gallery sponsored by |
| | FERALTRADE products passed by hand. The word 'feral' describes a process that is deliberately wild, as in pigeon, as opposed to nature wild (wolf). Feral Trade freight operates largely outside commercial channels, using the surplus potential of social, cultural and data networks for the distribution of goods. contact kate@feraltrade.org |
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