The trouble with collage is its incessant greed for materials. For every picture you make, you can spend hours hunting in magazines and catalogues for the right pattern, the right texture, the right color. The postman delivers so many catalogues to us, he probably thinks we’re opening our own home and garden superstore.

And then Shana had a bright idea. Travel brochures! Think of all those endless blue skies, beaches — oh yes, and the thousands of identical hotels.

Well, at least it’d be a refreshing change from making collages full of toasters and patio furniture, I thought.

Today, however, the Kirker Holidays brochure arrived. and I looked at all the wonderful watercolour illustrations, and, frankly, I just couldn’t bring myself to start cutting bits out of it.

Kirker Holidays do luxury short breaks ‘for discerning travellers’, you know. Discerning travellers: that’s what we’d be, I guess — if we had a few quid and a couple of passports to rub together. But we haven’t, so we’ll have to settle for being discerning droolers instead. I’m not sure who the watercolour artist is but I’ll update this post if I find out.

[Disclaimer: In case you we're wondering, no, we're not being paid to advertise Kircher Holidays. However, if they're sending their in-house watercolour artist off on a world tour any time soon and he or she needs someone to carry their paintbrushes, we can be very helpful if we're asked nicely ]