ISLAND BAY WOMAN FINDS ONE SOCK ON THE PAVEMENT, STARTS SUPPORT GROUP BY TUESDAY
The sock is grey. The group has 34 members. The other sock is still missing.
An Island Bay resident who found a single work sock outside the dairy on The Parade has set up what she's calling the Wellington Lost Sock Collective. It has weekly meetings and a printed agenda. This all happened in 72 hours.
Founder Helena Mortimer, 58, said the sock got to her. "There it was. Soaked. Southerly doing its worst. Somebody got dressed this morning and made a compromise, and I won't stand for it."
The first meeting was held Sunday at the Empire and pulled 11 attendees. One was a bloke from Berhampore who brought a Tupperware of 23 odd socks he'd kept since 2019. "I'd given up," he told The Daily Yarn. "Helena's given me something back. Not the socks. But something."
A Wellington City Council spokesperson, asked if the council had a position on roadside sock recovery, said it did not. They asked to be taken off the email chain. Helena has added them again.
The original sock is now pinned to a corkboard at the cafe under the heading EXHIBIT A. Helena is accepting submissions by post and is drafting a constitution.
Founder Helena Mortimer, 58, said the sock got to her. "There it was. Soaked. Southerly doing its worst. Somebody got dressed this morning and made a compromise, and I won't stand for it."
The first meeting was held Sunday at the Empire and pulled 11 attendees. One was a bloke from Berhampore who brought a Tupperware of 23 odd socks he'd kept since 2019. "I'd given up," he told The Daily Yarn. "Helena's given me something back. Not the socks. But something."
A Wellington City Council spokesperson, asked if the council had a position on roadside sock recovery, said it did not. They asked to be taken off the email chain. Helena has added them again.
The original sock is now pinned to a corkboard at the cafe under the heading EXHIBIT A. Helena is accepting submissions by post and is drafting a constitution.