After work today I headed to Hobbycraft and wandered the aisles looking for anything I thought might be useful for the more popular experiments people have been suggesting.
I came away only having just broken into double figures-worth of craft products, but along with the PlinthiPaul.co.uk domain, some bits I’d already got, some bits I still need to get, six packets of batteries and travel up to London, it’s looking like PlinthiPaul’s budget will ultimately end up passing £50.
Compared with many other plinthers, though, that will be a small sum, I’m sure. Many others have had to tackle things like costume hire, PA system hire, balloon/bubble purchase – and for a likely majority of plinthers, long-distance travel and accommodation costs.
[Hah, just as I was typing this post, a new e-mail notification popped up from Visit London: “Stay in London from only £29 a night”. Who knew advertisers had keystroke loggers installed on bloggers’ PCs?]
So – and I say this in no small part to see if my blog can attract its first ever actual comment! – what do you reckon is the average amount spent by a plinther as a result of their invitation to appear on One & Other? Please let me know in the comments below (there’s no need to register to comment on the blog, by the way).
Once we arrive at a figure (which I’m sure will be really accurate…), we can multiply it up by 2,400 and see just how much of an economic stimulus this project has been. Could One & Other beat the ‘Cash for Clunkers’ car replacement scheme as a way to lift us out of recession? 
Meanwhile, in other audience participation news: if you’re interested in the PlinthiPaul project and intend to watch my hour at some point, please could you go and pledge to watch me on my One & Other profile page (on the right-hand side)? It’d be very exciting to know I was actually going to have some viewers. Thanks!
I pledged to watch. Although whether I actually will depends on whether the stream is actually working ok on the day. Sometimes it is flawless, at other times some part of the connection between the plinth and Toronto is unusably slow.
Thanks for my inaugural comment, and your pledge
The unreliability of the feed may be unrelated to your distant connection – it frequently struggles to make it the ten miles or whatever it is to here 