The art of the matter

RARELY more than random scribblings, doodles are the product of your subconscious filling the margins of a phone book or sprawling all over a piece of scrap paper.

Long phone calls or boring meetings are excellent occasions for generating doodles, your mind utterly disconnected from your scribing hand.

But while you may crumple yours up into a ball and bin it, a Cork-based cancer support charity has found a way of turning them into a valuable means of raising both funds and awareness, in the form of a doodle auction.