And so to Lan'dan Tar'n! Filthy, noisy,
place, full of selfish, self-absorbed, shoulder-bargers, glued to their
dumb-phones and apparently playing Russian roulette with what appears to be
half the vehicular traffic in Western Europe - as it happens, but full of
little touristy nick-knack kiosks.
One of which was purveying this little
LE'delight and I had to have it! It's too cool for luminary school, and it's a
guardsman, so will join the toast-mould cutters & egg-cup, knitted-woolen
egg-cosy, bog-brush, clockwork walker, nutcracker et al!
It's by Puckator,
who did those nearly-impossible to get out undamaged, resin pirates in plaster
blocks, Peter Evans let me have a few years ago!
The downside is that when you press the
button you don't just get light in the darkness, you get a tinny rendition of
half-a-verse of the Rule Britannia. It sounds like someone coerced a grasshopper to
play it on some frayed fishing line, in a biscuit-tin! Still - it could be
worse; it could have been the national Anthem!
I don't know about you, whoever you are or
wherever you are, but most National Anthems are pretty tedious affairs, one
tries to hear as infrequently as possible, especially if one - having been in
the forces - has already overdosed on the bloody thing.
It's the one thing I feel sorry for the
Royal family about, they get to listen to the same, slow dirge, umpteen times a
day, played by amateur bands, rappers, junior-school recorder and triangle
'orchestras', steel bands and foreigners who saw the music for the first time
two days previously, or who possess un-tuned instruments (it's on the Internet
somewhere!), they get it played on spoons, wash-boards, tea-chest cellos, coloured-water
filled milk-bottles, flower-pots and probably - at least once - Imperial
Stormtrooper's helmets! They get it acapella from groups of poets, school-dinner
ladies, Uncle Tom Cobly an'all.
They must all have been driven slightly
insane, or borderline suicidal, by the dreadful tune?
I intend to try disabling that relevant part
of the PCB!
This was a nice find, I remember seeing
them a couple of Christmases ago in one of those gadget-gift round-up's in the national
press, I think they were about £12 plus postage, so finding one for four-quid
in a charity shop was a bargain. I think I said a while ago when discussing the
dongle-upgrade - I don't mind paying a pound a gigabyte, but more than that -
when corporate PR exercises give away 4 or 8Gb data-sticks these days - is
madness.
And who can say no to a naughty monkey in a
green T-shirt (don't go there; I think I might have, but I think I got away
with it! And a jungle hasn't been mentioned . . . Doh!). I like the fact that
there's a rubber tag (with a tight-fit) you can slot in the USB hole to keep
the two halves together while you're using it.
I scanned the can's wrap-around before it
went in the recycling. Imported by Satsuma,
and as I said above, was retailing a couple of years ago. I'm after a
flash-drive robot I saw a while ago too, I don't know if it's also Satsuma or someone else, but I can see a
collection of novelty memory sticks in my future!
Whoops - T is for THREE - Novelty Figures!
The Darth Vader LED has been seen here before, but they are now a group, along
with the coffin data-stick we've also looked-at previously.
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