Given that some parts of the British Isles
experienced a quick covering of snow the other day heralding the predictable
complete failure of the nation infrastructure coupled with the usual orgasm of
hysteria from the tabloid's hinting at the end of the world - except the Daily
Wail who were probably predicting a 'snow-mageddon' related catastrophic-drop
in house prices or worrying rise in Prep-school fees in the New Year; I thought
we'd have a look at some related bits and bobs from Picasa.
I bought this last year in Tiger, but can't remember if he ever
made it into the Christmas posts? I don't think so as I don't remember ever
writing who the bloody-f**k thought it was a good idea to suffocate Santa' in a
dolls jam jar? 60mm; lid-roof to base.
This pair of pure-white muppets was on a
Christmas cake a few years ago, they look to be from one of the 'proprietary
brands' of Christmas Village (what secular people use to celebrate a religious
festival instead of nativities!) but I seem to remember that they were more
generic in their China'ness!
The big one looks faintly bemused by the
whole thing (whatever it is), the one on the right looks . . . errr . . . .
inbred, there; I've said it, he looks inbred - Norfolk's lost a village idiot!
The rest came in a junk-lot on evilBay a
while ago, I always try to get these earlier in the year as those lots, nearer
Christmas itself, tend to be priced for a needful market, but Christmas cake
decorations in the summer tend to go un-bid-on!
These are the less interesting pieces. I
like the tree - in its wooden barrel - as we had them on the cake with our
plaster snowmen and cottage when we were kids, the deer is one of many and the
sign is hard plastic, the latter-two HK, the tree probably a German, Polish or British product, jobbed to many.
Thinking out-loud department . . . dissolve
the plaster snow in vinegar overnight, remove the wooden barrel and attach the
tree to a string of curtain-weights and you'd have a very useful shotgun
cleaner, in a fetching green . . . "Merry,
festive shotgun cleaner, half-price - Only this Bank-holiday Monday!"!
. . . There's my next business-venture, right there!
Awwwww . . . Snow-baby's got an igloo, how
cool is that . . . err . . . hard to be cooler than ice?!!
The reason for buying the lot was the Santa
Clause who came with both skis, now, I have this sculpt in storage, more than
one in fact, possibly including the Festival
original, but this is the first hard polystyrene one I've found with both
sticks, his skis are softer ethylene though.
We shall return to tobogganing snow-baby this
afternoon, he's a copy of the old Gem/Festival
ones.
Finally for this little round-up, Brian B
was rather taken with these skating Santa's, not enough to buy one, but enough
to send us a shelfie, he's is a jolly-looking chap, with the best crimbo-jumper
ever! And if you look carefully; his skates are made of Candy-canes.
Is it beginning to feel a bit like
Christmas?
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