I believe it was when I sent him a small aquatic aardvark in the mail that we made the connection.
I was busy with my hobby of mailing "Dear John" letters to strangers and he liked to take pictures of pickles and send them to random addresses.
When I received my picture I was intrigued.
The composition was just perfect and the way the light bounced of the bumps and grooves in the pickles surface was really quite marvellous.
I sent him a reply in my own fashion.
A handcrafted stuffed doll of a headless Southern Wright Whale.
Thus began our communication in objects.
I realised that he was more that just a strange person with a pickle fetish when I was trying to stuff that aardvark into an aquarium.
He was a SNOWTYRE!!!!