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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, December 21, 2018

News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events

Err . . . there almost aren't any! Well it is the quietest week of the year for shows; isn't it? The best show after Sandown is the NEC . . . their 'Boxing Day' show is on . . . a day late!

 HAPPY   CHRISTMAS!  

Toy Fairs

Thursday 27th December 2018

Birmingham - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'NEC'
Hall 18, National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, West Midlands, B40 1NT
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966 527 177
Admission £7.50, early-bird (from 08:00hrs) £12, OAP's £7, Children £2
Free parking

  HAPPY   CHRISTMAS! 

Auctions
 
None!

  HAPPY   CHRISTMAS! 

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!

  HAPPY   CHRISTMAS! 

I've not managed to get anything else posted this week, so there are a couple of bits tomorrow and one on Sunday that I scheduled a few days ago and that'll be it 'till next week sometime . . . maybe!

Cracked the 700-posts in a year but the 3-mill' hits will be the second week of Jan' I think? Next year will probably have fewer posts, but maybe some better stuff?

The new bears (right) meet the gang, prior to them-all going on the tree! They all look so happy . . . except the polar bears; all four of them look a bit quizzical!

Thanks for viewing, visiting or helping the Blog in 2018 and we'll start the eleventh year with a few days off!

Happy Christmas!

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