I love how all the media (except the
gruniad and the 'i') seems to be blaming Europe (again!) as if somehow they
voted to leave us and aren't getting on with it! And the TIG'ers . . .oooohh,
they're fierce!
The Good Friday agreement of 1997 made it
all but impossible to practically, or 'technically' leave the EU as
Brwreakshiteers wish, without either a back-stop or a crash-out.
If we crash-out we lose all credibility
with the countries we think we're going to get all these fantastic trade deals
with (whale-hunting Faeroe Isles onboard already - 'Rayyy!), if we retain the
back-stop, NI remains within the EU's major structures, it's called Catch22,
and is probably why Boris is so quiet these days and Cam'moron and Gisela
Stuart and co. all ran-away immediately after the vote!
It'll be why major leading Brwreakshiteers
are moving their businesses, their family domicile or the kids nationality to
Monaco, Malta, Luxemburg or - as in Rees-Mogg's case - the Republic of Ireland.
Leave voters were sold a diseased-pup by a fork-tongued snake-oil salesman and
are stubbornly refusing to admit it, with the Media's help!
As I've been saying for some time now - buy
toys while you still can!
There's a good bunch of shows this weekend, note
that 'Collect-a-Happy' in Plymouth have a new venue - the Methodist Church in
the town centre, while BP Fairs
haven't changed the admission charge at Rugby.
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 16th March 2019
Bexhill-on-Sea - SRP Toy Fairs
St. Barnabas Parish Church, Cantelupe Road,
Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, TN40 1JG
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Crewe - Crewe Model Engineering
Society - 'Toy & Train Collectors Fair'
Crewe Heritage Centre, Vernon Way, Crewe,
Cheshire, CW1 2DB (venue)
CMES, 93 Merlin Way, Crewe, CW1 3YP
(bookings)
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 505 781 (Mon-Fri, before
20:00hrs, not weekends)
10:30 - 15:30hrs
Admission unknown, dealers; £18 per
six-foot table
Gateshead - Jim Corr Fairs - Toy,
Train & Sci-Fi Fair
Gateshead International Stadium, Neilson
Road, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear, NE10 0EF
eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07504 035 955
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2,
'Early Bird' £5
Hereford
- Chris Dyer
Fairs
Methodist Church, Town Centre, Plymouth PL1
1BA
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Plymouth - Events Frontier -
'Collect-a-Happy' Toy & Train Fair
Plymouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square,
Plymouth, Devon, PL1 2BJ
Web. - www.eventsfrontier.com
eMail - eventsfrontier@hotmail.com
Mob. - 07508 548 938
Admission 'From' £3
[Note: new venue address]
Rugby - Barry Potter / BP Fairs 'Rugby Vintage'
The Benn
Hall, Newbold Road, Rugby, CV21 2LN
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
10:30 -
15:00hrs
Admission
£3.50 (early-bird £7, from 08:00hrs), OAP's £3, Children £1
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Sunday 17th March 2019
Ashington - David Parsons - Toy
& Train Collectors Fair
Ashington Community Centre, Foster Lane,
Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3PG
eMail - modelcarmart@gmail.com
Tel. - 01424 846 676 (Pete)
Mob. - 07742 609 865 (David)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Adults
£1.50, concessions £1
Chartham - SRP Toy Fairs
Station Road, Chartham, Kent, ME13 7RA
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission unknown
Devizes - Steven Clements Fairs
Corn Exchange, Market Place, SN10 1HS
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Free parking, café
Kirkby-in-Ashfield - Townsend
Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend)
Festival Hall,
Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 7DJ
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951
072 790
10:00 -
14:00hrs
Admission fee unknown, accompanied under-16's free
Free
parking, refreshments
Llanelli, Wales - Chris Dyer Fairs
Llangennech Community Centre, Off Hendre
Road, Llangennech, Wales, SA14 8TH
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Potters
Bar - Toy
& Train Fairs (Peter Levinson)
Elm Court Centre, Mutton Lane, Potters Bar,
hertfordshire, EN6 3BP
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01282 051 518 (Peter or Diane)
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission charge unknown
Spalding - J&J Fairs (J&J
Webb)
Springfields Events & Conference
Centre, Camelgate, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE12 6ET
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission - Adult £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st
child £1.50p
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
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Tuesday 19th March 2019
Wootton
Basset - Steven
Clements Fairs - Wootton Basset Evening Fair
Memorial Hall, Station Road, Wootton
Basset, Wiltshire, SN4 7EN
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
18:30 - 20:30hrs
Free parking, café
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Auctions
Monday 18th March 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 19th March 2019
Washington (W. Sussex) - Tooveys
Spring Gardens (Garden Centre), A24 Lay-by,
Washington, West Sussex, RH20 3BS
Web. - www.tooveys.com
eMail - auctions@tooveys.com
Tel. - 01903 891 995
Catalogue online
Viewing Saturday 16th March 09:30 -
12:00hrs, Monday 18th 10:00 - 16:00hrs and on the day of the sale from
10:00hrs, sale starts at 13:30hrs
General toy sales
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Wednesday 20th March 2019
Warwick - Warwick & Warwick
Charlton House, Scar Bank, Millers Road,
Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 5DB
(Auctions held in Court House)
Web. - www.warwickandwarwick.com
Tel. - 01926 499 031
Facsimile - 01926 491 906
Catalogue on-line, printed version
available on request
Trains, die cast, model soldiers and other
toys
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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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H
is for How They Come In!
Only the one Charity-shop bag this week
(95p), mostly the part contents of - probably -three of the Waddington's licensed (from Rojas e Malaret) board game 'Battle of the Little Big Horn', which is
timely, as Peter Evans left a handful in that lot last week, and I'll be
motivated to dig the rest out of the garage in the Spring and do a post on
them, although - as stated before - the real story is to be found here.
The Airfix
and lone Lone*Star were damaged and
will be picked up by the bin lorry before you read this today - single-use
plastic . . . ooooh; very bad! I also treated myself to a Kinder-egg Barbie , but it
was 'Movie' Barbie which I already
have!
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Angels
at Four O'clock
The lack of other purchases (there was a
mixed small-scale lot on evilBay!) led me to weaken on the fairies I mentioned
the other week, and I got four (less than a fiver!) on the way home Wednesday,
they are about 54mm, but it's academic when you are talking about A) fictional
characters who B) are supposed to be very small and C) as women would be
slightly smaller than men (on average) making them 60mm . . . 'ish!
Blue and Purple are actually the same
sculpt, while Pink looks more matt, and from a different batch. I suspect there
ought to be a 4th pose and that these are leaving the works in a pretty random
fashion? More resin in the pile!
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"I'll do the Computing-bag!"
I
had help on the show dates tonight!
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Mental note to self;
BAOR - British Army Of [the] Rhine
Boar - Wild pig
Boer - Dutch South-African settler
Bore - To dig or drill a hole or hollow
Borer - Wood eating/living beetle/insect
Bores - Members of the PSTSM
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Stop Press - My thoughts are very-much with
the fair citizens of New Zealand this morning. In Brave New World, Logan's Run,
1984, Soylent Green . . . there was always the fear, in the future, of some sort of nihilistic
violence around the next corner - it seems the future is here, now,
but thinking of the citizens of Troy, the subjects of Rome, the pheasants of
the middle ages or the freedom-lovers of Nazi-occupied Europe; maybe
it always was?
Globalisation means - increasingly -
whenever there is a climate event, a natural catastrophe or a mass-shooting we
seem to know people in the vicinity, and are frustrated by our inability to 'do' anything, but the strong feeling we should 'do something', so best -
at least - to let them know we were thinking of them?
I'm sure you're all OK, but thinking of you anyway! And it must be a hell of a shock.
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