From implanted tomato seeds to multiple sweetie wrappers, dentists and dental nurses have revealed the most extraordinary things they have found on the job.
I wonder if the cinema staff have to go in at the end of each screening and pick up not only the empty cups and sweetie wrappers but also the shattered dreams of any foolish youthful idealists in the audience and the hollow, desiccated shells of cinemagoers with nothing left to live for.
A range of stand-out accessories, including metallic sweetie-wrapper clutch bags, horse hair necklaces, hi-top trainers and "invisible heels", where a wedge made of Plexiglass is designed to give the impression that the wearer is walking on air, looks set to be a hit with shoppers.
Her vast construction of crumpled sugar paper and cellophane calls up all kinds of ghosts: sweetie-wrappers and pastel soap, old ladies' face powder.
Far from being unreadably mired in literary theory, though, The Afterparty – Benedictus's first book – is a blast: a pacy and amusing satire of celebrity shenanigans, wrapped in glittery postmodern sweetie-wrappers.
But fans have expressed horror at the discovery that company has changed the wrappers from sweetie-style twist-wraps to uniform "flow wraps" that have to be torn, rather than twisted, open.
