There really is a pee-pee video, somewhere,
isn't there? He is slowly surrendering American influence in the Middle East to
Russia, while slowly falling-out with Europe, yet his genius as a statesman is
coming along much faster elsewhere, he's falling out with China very quickly!
Both him and Boris refusing to co-operate
with their own parliaments or their own courts, and while the cats misbehave, the
mice are out of control; Brazil, Hungary, Poland and Turkey, sliding into
gentile fascism as fast as they can learn what to get away with, from the two
blond-buffoons and their coteries!
It's tragic, but as the planets dying
anyway, I suppose it's all a bit academic; something for historians to argue
over before the end - I watch with bemusement and buy old toys . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 12th October 2019
Chester - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs
The Cheshire Country Club Sports Club, Plas
Newton Lane, Upton, Cheshire, CH2 1PR
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 652 773
Mob. - 07825 631 323
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission £2.00
Free Parking
Hawkinge - SRP Toy Fairs
Hawkinge Community Centre, Heron Forstal
Avenue, Hawkinge, Kent, CT18 7FT
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Nottingham - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm
Townsend) - Nottingham Toy Fair
Bluecoat Academy, Nottingham, NG8 5GY
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951 072 790
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission unknown, accompanied under-16's
free
Light refreshments
Free Parking
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Sunday 13th October 2019
Kempton
Park - RM
Toys Ltd.
Kempton Park Racecourse, Staines Road East,
Sunbury-on-Thames, Middlesex, TW16 5AQ
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 02392 381 529
Mob. - 07957 823 507 (Russell Martin)
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission - £4.00, seniors £3.50p, children
£1.00, early bird (from 08:30hrs) £10.00
Plymouth - Events Frontier -
'Devcon' Sci-fi and Comics Convention
Plymouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square,
Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2BJ
Web. - www.eventsfrontier.com
eMail - eventsfrontier@hotmail.com
Mob. - 07508 548 938
Hours unknown
Admission fee unknown
Rayleigh - SRP Toyfairs
Sweyne Park School, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6
9BZ
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Stafford - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Stafford Showground'
The Preston
& Argyle Suites, Stafford County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18
0BD
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission
£4.00 (early-bird £8), OAP's £3.50, Children £1,
Free parking
Wincanton - Toy Trac - Model
Farming Show
Wincanton Racecourse, Wincanton, Somerset,
BA9 8BJ
Web. - https://toytrac.xyz
Tel. - 01278 785 925
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Licensed bar, Disability friendly
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Auctions
Saturday 12th October 2019
[Runcorn]
On-line Auction - British Toy Auctions
The Auction Centre, 9 Berkeley Court,
Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1TQ
Web. - www.britishtoyauctions.co.uk
Tel. - 01928 579 032
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Monday 14th October 2019
Lewis - Wallis and Wallis
West Street Galleries, Lewis, Sussex, BN7
2NJ
Web. - wallisandwallis.co.uk
eMail - toys@wallisandwallis.co.uk
Tel. - 01273 480 208
Fax. - 01273 476 562
General Toy Sale
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Tuesday 15th October 2019
Newbury
- Special
Auction Services (SAS)
Originally there was a ' Collector' sale pencilled-in for
the 15th, it seems this sale is not now going ahead, replaced by a 2-day event
on Tue-Wed. 29th/30th October 2019
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Friday 18th October 2019
Ledbury - John Goodwin
Bromsberrow Village Hall, Albright Lane,
Bromsberrow, Ledbury, HR8 1RT (venue)
3-7 New Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8
2DX (office)
eMail - rupert@johngoodwin.co.uk
Tel. - 01684 593 125 (office)
Tel. - 07968 694 746 (18th October only)
Viewing - Thursday 17th October
15:00-19:00hrs and morning of sale from 08:00hrs
Sale starts 10:00hrs - finish.
'Toy & Transport' sale, trains,
ephemera and advertising goods
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis Auctions
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Toy & model railways & trains
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Other Events
From Yesterday 'till Sunday 13th October
2019
Ironbridge - Institution of Civil
Engineers (ICE) - Brick Bridge
World Record Attempt
Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Ironbridge,
Coalbrookdale, Shropshire
Web. - www.ironbridge.org.uk
hands-on building with 'a market leading
brand' of brick-block to create the world's longest model-bridge . . .
hopfully!
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Saturday 12th October & Sunday 13th
October 2019
Harrogate - Yorkshire Event Center
- The Great Yorkshire Antiques Fair
Yorkshire Event Center, Great Yorkshire
Showground, Harrowgate, North Yorkshire
Web. - www.eventcentre.co.uk
Antiques, vintage and collectables
Swansea - Swansea Museums - Book
Swap
National Waterfront Museum, Oystermouth
Road, Maritime Quarter, Swansea
Web. - www.museum.wales
1-for-1 book swap
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Saturday 12th - Sunday 20th October 2019
Hastings - Local Authority + -
Hastings Week
Various locations
Web. - www.hastingsweek.com
Classic car show, town crier competition,
re-enactments, parade, stalls, other events
Celebrating the anniversary of 1066's
crown-change
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Sunday 13th October 2019
Theydon
Bois - North
London & Essex Transport Events (NLETE) - Transport Bazaar &
Vintage Bus Displays
Theydon Bois Village Hall, Coppice Row,
Essex, CMI6 7ER
eMail - nleevents@outlook.com
11:00 - 15:30hrs
Admission £3.00, accompanied children free
Free rides around Epping Forest.
No public car parking, refreshments, stalls
etc . . .
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Overseas Events
Saturday 12th October 2019
Houten (Netherlands) - R. Hobma - Train & Rail Fair
Euretco, Houten, Netherlands
Tel. - ++0481 353 288
Toledo (USA) - John Carlisle - Ohio Collectors' Toy & Model Fair
Sylvania Exibition Center at Tam-O-Shanter, 7060 Sylvania Ave, Sylvania, Great Lakes (Toledo), OH 43560, Ohio, USA (venue location)
Sylvania Exibition Center at Tam-O-Shanter, 7060 Sylvania Ave, Sylvania, Great Lakes (Toledo), OH 43560, Ohio, USA (venue location)
Old Toyland Shows, 6996 Chestnut Ridge Road, Lockport, NY 14094, New York, USA (organizer)
09:00-14:00hrs
Admission $7.00
Valthermond (Netherlands) - Martin Klein - Die Cast Fair
eMail - mailto:martin.klein@planet.nl
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Saturday 12th & Sunday 13th October
2019
Ohrdruf (Germany) - Leokadia Wolfers - Doll & Bear Show
Schloss Ehrenstein, Ohrdruf, Germnany
Tel. - ++01785 335 668
Paris (France) - Automedan - Die Cast & Tin-plate
Fair
Parc Exposition Le Bourget, Paris, France
Tel. - ++++0164 465 222
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Sunday 13th October 2019
Bergheim (Germany) - J Hörner - Toy Fair
Tel. - ++0210 351 133
Dublin (Republic of Ireland) - Brian Collins Enterprises - 'Collectables
Toy Fair'
Collinstown Suite, The Carlton Hotel,
Dublin Airport, Old Airport Road, Cloghran, County Dublin, Republic of Ireland
(Eire)
Tel. - ++00353 879 827 712
[Findable on Facebook - Brian Collins]
Admission "Small charge"?
Nanterre (France) - Philippe Albaret - Eurofigurines
Espace Cheverul, 97-109 Avenue de la Liberté, 92000 Nanterre,
France
Web. - www.eurofigurines.com
eMail - albaretphilippe@orange.fr
Tel. I - ++0614 611 618
Tel. II - ++0148 033 343
08:30-13:00hrs
Admission free . . . yes; FREE
The biggest show for little figures in
France?
Olten (Switzerland) - Oltnerboerse - Toy Fair
Stadthetre / Konzerthsaal, Olten SO,
Switzerland
Tel. - ++0627 914 289
Tournefeuille (France) - CCAM Toulouse - 'Retrojouets (Old Toys)
2019'
Salle 'La Phare', Tournefeuille, France
Web. - http://www.retrojouets.com/
Tel. - ++0561 765 607
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE - or linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating the
date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing times,
admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features - parking,
travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event subject
matter &etc.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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Toys in the Media
Two action figures, almost certainly
enhanced by CGI (beyond the obvious sparks) and being used to illustrate a
story about sports clothing store chains and their incestuous scraps!
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Other Toy News
No real toy news this week, something about
recycling Lego, in Germany I think,
but I wasn't paying attention!
Missed
A toy show in Lisbon, Portugal, another in
the 'States last weekend and Bertoia
Auctions (today, if you're near it; Vineland,
New Jersey, but a bit late now);
blame the promoters!
And Birmingham . . . again! AND Phil
reminded me with plenty of time But I only found his mail just now . . . blame
the promoters . . . Cheers Phil, thanks for trying and sorry I missed the eMail, I hope the three of you found 'stuff'!
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Links
One hates to denigrate anything for a good
cause, but I'm nothing if not constant,and have no sacred-cows, so . . . I think the UN funded something pretty
similar a few years ago, linked to here (and elsewhere at the time) so while
worthy; not quite as original as made out
and
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H is for How They Come In
For most of the week this was it! 50p each,
totally unrelated to each-other and I'm not sure if the realistic one is LotR or GoT? Or whether or not he's had his head repainted, I suspect it's
something-omire, the bad one who dies coming good, saving the little 'Blooody' Hobbits from the Forlorn Hope!
While the fox may be Phidal, is marked Disney
but isn't the one from Peter Rabbit,
isn't the one from the cartoon Robin Hood,
isn't the one at war with a bird ('cos he was a coyote anyway and not Disney), looks far too laid-back to be
trying to eat three little pigs and isn't the other one so must be another one?
Then I had a bit of luck today (Thursday);
another LotR figurine, this one an elf, via McDonald's and a resin Teddy Bear
playing cricket . . . why not! Legolas
hasn't got a bow so he may have been part of a larger 'interactive' firing-toy/premium/freebee
thing?
Giant knights marked China also came in at
the last minute, they have certain similarities with some of the past output of
Pioneer, Soma or Supreme, and are probably
from some big-box generic thing shoved through TKMaxx or one of the Department Store chains at Christmas, maybe
with a slot-together card fort or wooden thing?
23rd April 2020 - Now known to be Red Box from a castle playset
23rd April 2020 - Now known to be Red Box from a castle playset
In addition to the above bits, a bag of
stuff for a future post was purloined (or sorted out from the large rubber
knights) and a little thing was put to one side against a specific job!
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Other Stuff
The staff behaved herself this week, only
because there weren't any boxes involved in the week's blogging activities, she
did sit on Thursday's bag! But I caught a couple of insects with stories
attached.
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I noticed this creeping very slowly across
the bedroom ceiling the other morning and managed to get it to drop into a jar.
I suspect it's more of a maggot than a caterpillar (they're all larvae), flies
tend to find bodies in the eves (bats, tit-birds or pigeons), and the odd maggot
finds a way into the house (we once had them raining-down on the patio at the
place in Berkshire!), so, as the weather has turned now, I put it in the
compost heap as I figured it would be warmer, and it would find something to
eat as it must have used too much energy getting to where it was to
successfully pupate? I just hope I haven't saved a clothes moth!
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This was caught in a spider's web outside
the bedroom window on Wednesday, and with the sun behind it I could only
make-out a stripy belly and couldn't work out what it was. I got the high steps
and the longest cane I could find and managed to get it free, whereupon it fell
on the sill, bounced and fell on the bay-window, bounced and fell on that sill,
bounced and fell again, onto the paving, bounced and finally ended up in the
undergrowth next to the drive, still wrapped in a few strands of the web!
It quickly freed itself though, once it had
terra-firma to brace against, and clearly wasn't something a spider would
normally tackle; The garden spiders set up these big sail-webs at this time of
year and the various Atlantic squalls rip them to shreds every few days, but so
do large insects like this, bumble-bees or hornets, who just fly through them
with what sounds like threats if they get temporarily caught.
The problem was that in part breaking-free it'd
been left hanging on a few threads with nothing to brace-against to break the
last few strands as it'd fallen in-line with the brickwork, leaving a gap to
the glass pane, so it was just swinging there waving its legs about!
It's not in the book, but I suspect a
capsid of some kind, or mirid-bug relative, having some features of them and
some shared with the related shield-bugs, but it has an elongated head and was
big, well-over an inch in the main, more than two at full leg stretch. Possibly
blown-in by this string of weather-fronts we've been having . . . Europe or
North America?
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2 comments:
Hi Hugh,
The fox you have there is indeed Phidal and is the character Nick from the Zootropois (or Zootopia-I can't remember which it was in Britain) Busy Book to tie in with the animated feature film.
Keep up the good work!
Cheers Steve - too many foxes and quite as meany Phidal makes Hugh a dumb boy!
H
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