jacaranda jezail , schoolgirl , is a prodigious collector of such diverse products as beer-mats , which she encases behind glass and catalogues according not to the brewery or particular brew but to the public house in which she acquired it , stray strands of cotton , usually white but occasionally silvery grey , or , once , a deep shade of turquoise , which she plucks from people 's clothing and catalogues according to the type of garment from which each sample is untimely ripped , and cricketing anecdotes , mainly concerning the pre-great war game .