“As suggested by Peter Miniutti (C8), my father, in his work downtime as a linotype operator, would wind rubber bands into a ball which grew increasingly large and heavy,” says Janice Creenaune of Austinmer. “So, as a secret destination, we took him to the ‘largest ball of twine built by one man’ when he visited us in Minnesota in 1998. It’s been immortalised in song by “Weird Al” Yankovic with the unsurprisingly titled The Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota and in the film Drop Dead Gorgeous . My daughter, 16 at the time, reflected somewhat disdainfully, ‘We have seen everything now, we can go home’. The largest rubber band ball in Florida (now owned by Ripley’s) had not even begun to be built until 2004, or we may have travelled there, too.” As for the ball in question making it to Sculpture by the Sea from Earlwood, Dave Williams of Port Macquarie assures all that “it’s downhill from everywhere to Bondi”.…