And his Breakshit 'advice' was pure nuts!
What would we sue the EU for exactly - we elected to leave? Are we going to sue
them for not kicking us out quick-enough? Are we going to sue them for letting
us sign the Good Friday agreement (making Breakshit technically impossible)? The
Treaty of Rome, Maastricht? The man's a fuckwitted fool, I mean; he's not
wholly sane and hideously ill-informed!
He did all this in the days immediately after
starting trade-wars with Mexico (his third largest trade partner) and India? I
note the State Department is now panicking over rare earth stocks! Go, China!
You fight fire with fire.
Knowing Trump described the Duchess of
Cornwall as "nasty" (there is a video), I was pleased to see the Duke
keeping his distance and scowling grimly while Her Majesty the Queen gave Trump
a verbal kicking in the family-jewels (and lessons in history and
statesmanship) with her 'International Organisations' speech - Go, Your
Majesty!
The man's a child-like, self regarding,
self-obsessed, self-delusional, racist, sexist pig with no depth of knowledge
of International Affairs, diplomacy, economics or even 'real' politics (or even realpolitik). He's a corrupt,
nepotistic, money-driven, bully and a pervert, a serial bankrupt, tax-cheat and
stooge of Moscow, I've heard. He has no redeeming features in my eyes.
The damage he's doing to America at home
and abroad must have the Founding-Fathers spinning in their graves like Linda
Blair's head hoying bucket-full's of vomit in the direction of the White House;
the whole point of the role is to bring the country together, not break it
apart!
I feel for my American friends and despair
for the fools who find succour in this shambolic excuse for the Office of
President. Although - hopefully his intervention will be the needed nails in
Boris's coffin? Good luck Ireland!
But that luxurious natural growth on his
bonce is going great-guns by the looks of it!
Anyway, the damage will only multiply over
the next year or so, or even the next five, so more comforting old toys are
called-for I think . . . and let's prey for no war!
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 8th June 2019
Ludlow - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs -
Ludlow Toy & Train Collector's Fair
Ludlow Racecourse, Bromfield, Ludlow,
Shropshire, SY8 2BT
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 652 773
Mob. - 07825 631 323
10:30 - 14:00hrs
Admission £2
Free parking
Nottingham - Townsend Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm
Townsend) - Nottingham Toy Fair
Bluecoat Academy, Nottingham, NG8 5GY
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951 072 790
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission unknown, but accompanied
under-16's free
Light refreshments
Free parking
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Sunday 9th June 2019
Haltwhistle - Jim Corr Fairs - Toy,
Train & Sci-Fi Fair
Haltwhistle Leisure Centre, Greencroft,
Haltwhistle, Northumberland, NE49 9DP
eMail - jim_corr73@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07504 035 955
10:00 - 15:00hrs
Admission £3, children/senior citizens £2, early
bird £5
Haydock
Park - Barry Stockton Fairs
The
Exhibition Centre, Haydock Park Racecourse, WA12 0HQ
Web. - http://barrystocktonfairs.co.uk/
Tel. - 01513 343 362
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission - adult £2, children £0.50p
Tel. - 01513 343 362
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission - adult £2, children £0.50p
Matlock - MGM Fairs
- Matlock Dolls House Show
The Imperial
Rooms, Imperial Road, Matlock, Derbyshire, DE4 3NL (venue)
Linnet
Lodge, The Village, Wembworthy, Devon, EX18 7RX (promoter)
Web. - https://mgmfairs.co.uk
eMail - enquiries@mgmfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 07818 462 448
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission -
adults/seniors £2.50p, children .50p
'Pay &
Display' parking
Refreshments,
prize draws
Shepton
Mallet - Bulldog
Fairs
Royal Bath & West Showground, BA4 6QN
Web. - www.bulldogfairs.com
eMail - bulldogfairs@aol.com
Tel. - 01373 452 857
Mob. - 07917 125 641
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission - adults £4, under 16's free if
accompanied, early-bird (from 08:30hrs) £10
St.
Ives - J&J
Fairs (J&J Webb)
'One Leisure' St. Ives, Burgess Hall Events
& Conference Centre, Westwood Road, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6WU
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission - adult £3, seniors £2.50, 1st
child £2
Where the cats and the sacks and the wives
came from, not Cornwall!
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Tuesday 11th June 2019
Hook - Steven Clements Fairs -
Hook Evening Fair
Hook Community Centre, Hook, Hampshire,
RG27 9NN
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
18:30 - 21:30hrs
Admission £1
Free parking
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Thursday 13th June 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
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Auctions
Saturday 8th June 2019
[Runcorn]
On-line Auction - British Toy Auctions
Web. - www.britishtoyauctions.co.uk
Tel. - 01928 579 032
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Monday 10th June 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
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Tuesday 11th June June 2019
Canterbury - The Canterbury Auction
Galleries
40 Station Road West,
Canterbury, Kent, CT2 8AN
eMail - general@tcag.co.uk
Tel. - 01227 763 337
General/mixed auction including toys
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Wednesday 12th June 2019
Warrington - Warrington & Northwich
Auctioneers & Valuers
551 Europa Boulevard,
Westbrook, Warrington WA5 7TP
Web. - www.warringtonauctions.co.uk
Tel. - 01925 658 833
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Overseas Events
Sunday 9th June 2019
Dublin
(RoI) - Chris
Dyer Fairs - Dublin Toy & Train Fair
The Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Dublin,
Eire
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £4
Just off N11 trunk road
Pasadena
(USA) - Brick
Boutique / Power Morphicon - Robo Toy Fest
Pasadena Convention Center, 300 East Green
Street, Pasadena, CA 91101, California, USA
Web - http://robotoyfest.com
eMail - robotoyfest@gmail.com
Telephone contact unknown
Hours unknown, starts 10:00hrs, early bird
09:00hrs
Admission $10.00, early bird $15.00,
children under 12 free.
Gift-bags while stocks last
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Friday 14th - Sunday 16th June 2019
Hong
Kong (China)
- HKTF - Hong Kong Toy Festival
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre,
1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Web. - info@hkexpo.com.hk (venue)
Web. - www.hktf.com.hk (promoter - text is
in Chinese characters)
The Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/HKToyFestival/
Tel. - 852-21 531 177
Friday 14th - 10:00-21:00hrs
Saturday 15th - 10:00-21:00hrs
Sunday 16th - 10:00-20:00hrs
Admission $30HK
TimeOut says;
"Not just one for
the kids, but for toy enthusiasts too . . . bringing a plethora of super cute
and affordable products and collector’s items too, such as classic Tomica Hong
Kong bus models and figurines featuring the city’s very own B.Wing characters.
There’s also going to [be] a giant inflatable slide, game stalls and [an] interactive
area to build your own toy train and tracks. Something to keep the little ones,
and your inner big kid, entertained this summer."
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6th June 1944 Etc. . .
Same message as last week, loads going on
all over the UK and Northern Europe, the memorials kicked-off on Tuesday with
events on the South Coast and will continue into the weekend and beyond, and no
doubt there will be an 15-month rolling programme of 75th's globally,
culminating in first VE Day (May next year) and then VJ day (September '20).
I'll try to keep an eye on it and post the
relevant links here, with minor or one-off events getting a separate listing,
for now it's the same three links as last week . . .
Independent Over-arching Listing
Britain - UK Government Site
France - Local Authority Site - Normandy
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Toys in the Media
The Daily
Torygraph managed to get both Chinatroop 'army men' and a Preiser type on the same page
illustrating a story on ex-military personnel trying to get into employment in
civi' street on Tuesday of this week.
Meanwhile this advertorial has been seen in
several papers, the logo looking suspiciously like the old Auctioning4U brand-mark! Oh - God, that pink; they painted
half the main office with it, it was like being trapped in a sister's dolly's
wedding-dress; luckily my desk was downstairs and I didn't have to face it too-much!
If the information-age has taught me one
thing, it's being suspicious of anyone who substitutes a 4 for err... 'for'!
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SSW Passim - Bendy's
The frogs which launched a series of
bendy-toy posts (which is still ongoing - if occasional) a few years ago are to
be found in gardening catalogues, currently dropping through the letter-slots
of Britain's doors as I write.
Of interest is the pricing, 3-6-quid for an
NJCroce superhero, 1-3-pounds-each
for a Tobar fantasy novelty figure,
but less that 35p for a frog of the same material, same size and same construction?
We need Pirate-Skeleton or Man-Bat plant ties!
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H is for How They Come In
1 - All Change at BHF
The British
Heart Foundation seems to have adopted a central process for 'bulking' small
toys, with a new wall-rack of header-carded, bottle-bagged toys appearing on
Monday. I grabbed a mixed animals one with four MEG (Morrison Entertainment
Group) 'something' ...In My Pocket's
(top right), two current rack-toy wild animals (bottom left) and a Hasbro-marked 'Dino-bot' of some kind.
They also had bags of Lego, K'nex, building bricks etc . . . and
I'll be checking back regularly, it's similar to the system used by that London
charity; The Toy Project.
2 - Scored a Haul of Plunder!
On Tuesday I managed to get this lot for a
total of £9.40p, the BAT (Britains) and fictional rocket-firing
trailer (Lone Star) are both
near-mint, while the 'Mighty Antar' and Centurion (Dinky) are a
bit play-worn, but they're both things I never thought I'd own in anything
other than tatty condition. As soon as I got them home I grabbed the instant
cleaning kit - wet-wipes and a fluffy cloth!
After cleaning; I had to do the tank's
wheels twice; they had seen heavy service somewhere muddy! The tracks are a bit
slack, but complete and undamaged; likewise the two ramps on the transporter
have no problems beyond paint-chipping where they slide up and down to lock-in
behind their retaining bars.
The detritus and a few more shots of the
main 'score'; you must have realised by now - if you've followed the Blog for
any length of time - I have a bit of a thing for Thorneycroft Antar's . . . when we were kids we saw these
all the time, thin-nosed and these earlier, wide-muzzled beasts, there were
always convoys of them on the A30, and they used to stop for char at the old truck
stops near Hook or up on Blackbush common.
If we were lucky (not so our parents) we'd
get stuck behind a convoy travelling down to 'The Plain' and it might take an
hour to get past them all! Funny enough, just before I bought these, like a
minute or two; a couple of the modern replacement tractor-units - Oshkosh's - had passed up Fleet High
Street, sans trailers?
I think they had taken a wrong turn heading
for Rushmoor as we have about nine sleeping policemen in the High Street and
haven't seen heavy military traffic for years! When you see them complete - the
Oshkosh units - they are usually
hauling steeply-angled tanker-trailers.
3 - Last Friday
Too late for last week's post, what can I
say? They were a pound, what am I supposed to do? I collect figurals, they look
vaguely military? They were a quid; a measly quid! They'll go with the
nut-crackers and egg-cups and such-things in the 'Household Goods' box!
Branded to an MC, I think I recognise the postcode as belonging to other
cheapies, so probably a phantom brand for one of the chains, Wilco or Poundland maybe, or it could be a novelty Christmas thing from Boots or Superdrug?
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Mad
Mike's boys in the Congo?
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Again you attack the PRATT sorry POTUS here in Ireland he proved his unfailing grasp of world events telling us how we have the same border problems as the USA with Mexico. He was informed we do not want a border dividing us from the UK. When asked for a comment about our president speech on global warming made in front of him he said he had not heard it.The USA is so lucky now when somebody calls them a stupid yank they can reply but I am smarter than the president. No wonder he supports Boris So when he is told YOU are the dumbest world leader he can reply NO it is Boris in the UK.
ReplyDeleteDon't! How we heard it was that he literally got off the 'plane and told the Taoiseach he could have a boarder as 'hard' as he likes 'It's your boarder', Leo (the gay African!) had to educated him as to the problem - either side of the boarder - WAS the likelihood of it being hard . . . he's the least educated President since . . . err . . . forever!
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