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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, March 29, 2019

News, Views Etc . . . Forthcoming Events

Brwreakshit is so unbelievably risible at the moment I can't bring myself to subject you to my opinions this week! "Ray!" Goes at least half of you . . . and the weather has been gardening-weather, not Blogging weather!

I know we're a third of the way through the year already, don't quite know how that happened, but there you go; time waits for no man, and as you get older it goes faster, that's a fact! No - it is; it's a subconscious trick you play on yourself as it’s a percentage of life-lived! So I do know how that happened . . . Doh!

Still, clock's go back Saturday night (another hour stolen from us!), so if you're lining-up one of Sunday's shows, bear that in mind and the weather is supposed to hold for a day or two - only the six events this week . . .

. . . AND - Guys; It's also Mother's Day on Sunday!

Chocolates
Card
Plant or Flowers
Meal/Meal Out/Day Trip

Everything's happening this weekend, except the one thing we've been told would 'absolutely be happening on the 29th' for the last two years! Britain's becoming the world's comedy warm-up act for that obnoxious bellicose trouser-trump over the pond!

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Toy Fairs

Saturday 30th March 2019

Brentwood - J&J Fairs (John & Julie Webb)
International hall, Brentwood Centre, Doddinghurst Road, Brentwood, Essex, CM15 9NN
Tel. - 01522 880 383 (J & J Webb)
10:00 - Approx. 14:30hrs
Admission £3, seniors £2.50p, 1st child £2

London (Chalk Farm) - Guideline Publications - The London Toy Soldier Show
Haverstock School, 24 Haverstock Hill, Chalk Farm, London, NW3 2BQ
Tel. - 01908 274 433
10:30 - 16:00hrs
Admission £6, early bird (from 09:30hrs) £10, late hares £4 - after 14:00hrs
Parking £5 (reasonable for London!)

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Sunday 31st March 2019

Buxton - Barry Potter / BP Fairs
The Octagon Hall, Pavillion gardens, St. Johns Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6XN
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966 527 177
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £3.00 (early-bird £6, from 08:00hrs), OAP's £2.50, Children £1
That's price reductions from last year for main and senior entry

Pudsey, Leeds - Steel Promotions - Leeds (Pudsey) Toy/Train Fair
Pudsey Civic Hall, Dawson's Corner, Stanningley Road, LS28 5TA
Internet presence unknown
Tel. I - 0161 283 1255
Tel. II - 0161 766 2012
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Café, licensed bar

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Thursday 4th April 2019

Theydon Bois - Joe Lock Fairs (evening fair)
Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois, Essex, CM16 7ER
Internet presence unknown
Mob. - 07866 641 215
19:00-21:00hrs
Admission £1

Thatcham - Steven Clements (evening fair)
Thatcham Catholic Hall, Bath Road, Thatcham, Berkshire, RG18 3AG
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
18:30 - 20:30hrs
Refreshments, free parking

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Auctions

Friday 29th March 2019 (Today - Reminders)

Elstree - Excalibur Auctions (day 1 of a 2-day sale)
The Village Hotel, Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6 3SB (venue)
Chiltern Business Centre, Woodside Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6AA (office)
02036 330 913
Free Tea or Coffee

Poole - Cottees Auctions Limited
Mannings Heath Road, Poole, Dorset, BH12 4NQ
Tel. - 01202 723 177
Viewing 10.00-17.00hrs on Thursday 14th (tomorrow) and from 9.00-10hrs on the 15th, a major collection of comics is under the hammer along with a Hornby Dublo collection


Spalding - M&M Auctions (day 1 of a 2-day auction, day 2 tomorrow: 29th)
Unit 4, Plover Court, Stevenson's Avenue, Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 3SY
Tel. - 01775 724 939
Viewing Wednesday 27th March 2019 10:00 - 18:00hrs and on the day of the sale 08:30 - 10:30hrs
Sales starts at 10:30hrs - runs 'till finish


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Saturday 30th March 2019

Elstree - Excalibur Auctions (day 2 of a 2-day sale)
The Village Hotel, Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6 3SB (venue)
Chiltern Business Centre, Woodside Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6AA (office)
Web. - www.excaliburauctions.com
eMail - enquiries@ excaliburauctions.com
02036 330 913
Free Tea or Coffee

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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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Toys in the Media

Thought this was clever and it includes toys, so up it goes!

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Lackadaisical Attitude!

I'm still feeling a bit bleugh, as you may have noticed from the drop-off in postings, but this is the 'queue' as it currently stands, along with all the Wild West, Hong Kong and Airfix stuff seen in similar screen-caps a year ago, so plenty coming/waiting/being prepared and - to that end -  I'm still beaver'ing away behind the scenes!

A few things are waiting on a new scanner which should be up-and-running by the weekend, and I've been photographing Airfix 'readymades' for most of the week, so I hope to start getting more output on the Airfix Blog, and yes - I know it needs lots of blurb on previous posts, but 'everything in its own good time'!

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P.S. - Stop the presses, I have a bunch of emails but no time to answer them today, so I'll try to have a session on Monday!

Late Link


Rogue War Gaming Trooper!

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