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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
I’m a 60-year-old Aspergic gardening CAD-Monkey. Sardonic, cynical and with the political leanings of a social reformer, I’m also a toy and model figure collector, particularly interested in the history of plastics and plastic toys. Other interests are history, current affairs, modern art, and architecture, gardening and natural history. I love plain chocolate, fireworks and trees, but I don’t hug them, I do hug kittens. I hate ignorance, when it can be avoided, so I hate the 'educational' establishment and pity the millions they’ve failed with teaching-to-test and rote 'learning' and I hate the short-sighted stupidity of the entire ruling/industrial elite, with their planet destroying fascism and added “buy-one-get-one-free”. Likewise, I also have no time for fools and little time for the false crap we're all supposed to pretend we haven't noticed, or the games we're supposed to play. I will 'bite the hand that feeds', to remind it why it feeds.

Saturday, March 23, 2019

S is for Spring is Sprung!

Even as I was Blogging the Gnomes Peter Evans kindly sent me the other day these shots of some of my own Gnomes were sitting in Picasa after I'd shot them sorting some other stuff back at the start of Feb' and with spring in the air I know some people will be renewing their Gnome homes or villages, and these were aimed at exactly that market.

Thick-walled blow-moulds which I believe are actually rotary-mouldings, and quite common when I was a kid, being sold in garden centres, hardware stores, beach-side kiosks and general newsagents/corner stores as novelties there are lots still around, and I have the set of musicians, along with a miner holding a lamp (making a nice busking scene) and the gardener (below); other figures have tools (the rest of the gardeners and miners) and there are more I think . . . fishermen, playing leapfrog, sitting round a camp-fire set, but I may be getting confused with Kinder or Santa's or something?

Pleased to get this in one piece, it's often missing bits being quite brittle 'kit' styrene, the spade-handle, the barrow-handles or the wheel are prone to damage or - if you're lucky - poorly-glued, amateur mends!

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