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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.

Friday, July 27, 2018

News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events

Toy Fairs

Saturday 28th July 2018

Horsted Keynes  -  - Joe Lock Fairs (Bluebell Railway toy fair)
Horsted Keynes Station, Station Approach, Horsted Keynes , East Sussex, RH17 7BB
Mob. - 07866 641 215
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission included A) with a train ticket or B) production of Bluebell Line membership card or C) by purchasing a platform ticket (remember them) if you don't want a trip down the line!

Sunday 29th July 2018

Aston Clinton - Brian Chamberlain Fairs
Green Park Activities & Training Centre, Stablebridge Road, Aston Clinton, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, HP22 5NE
Mob. - 07864 641 215
10am - 2.30pm
Early bird from 8.30am
(poorly advertised, no website?)

Boreham - SRP Toy Fairs
New Hall School, Whit Heart Lane (via General's Lane), Boreham, Essex, CM3 3HS
Tel. - 07739 998 012
10.00 - 14.00hrs

Minehead - Chris Dyer Fairs
Minehead Eye, Mart Road, Minehead, TA24 5BJ
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10.30 - 15.00hrs
Admission £2

Wilton - Steven Clements
Michael Herbert Hall, South Street, Wilton, Wiltshire SP2 0JS 
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891


Tuesday 31st July 2018

Garstang - Janet Pearson (evening fair)
Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3 0HR
Tel. - 01282 439 009
18:00 - Finnish
(another one which thinks it needn't advertise?)

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Other Events

Friday 27th (today) - Sunday 29th July 2018


London (Olympia) - London Film & Comic Convention
Exhibitions, trade stalls, show exclusives, over 100 guest stars booked.
Note - you need to double check on tube times as I seem to recall is a funny service there weekdays v. weekends?



Saturday 28th July 2018

For those whose other-halves' might posses a collection of battery-operated silicon toys, the above event may be just the ticket? If you're feeling horny, get down to Margate this Saturday - 'Fun Day' indeed - all those camp-sites; it's bound to be a hotbed of swinging!

Horsted - Bluebell Line Events Day - see; Toy Fairs (above)

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Auctions

Sunday 29th July 2018

Hanham - East Bristol Auctions
Tel. - 011 79 671 000

Tuesday 31st July

Newbury - Special Auction Services (SAS - Express Toys auction)
81 Greenham Business Park, Newbury, West Berkshire, RG19 6HW
Tel - 01635 580595
Fax - 0871 714 6905

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