D is for Donated Plunder Pile

Chris Smith sent the Blog a parcel, just as I came back online after Dad's passing, and although he'd sent me an eMail telling me it was on the way, I failed to read it properly, so it still came as a surprise to me! And what a surprise . . .

. . . We've seen this chap or chapess (or Chappie? A UK-centric joke, and then only 'gettable' if you bought dog-food in the 1970's!) before, as he/she was literally the first (or second?) thing I saw when I opened the parcel!

Arriving on a Saturday; I had a whole weekend to sort it out and starting about half-nine in the evening, I'd produced these piles by midnight! because I've been slack about putting stuff away, or just slow . . . . now I'm also trying to filter-in the two main lots - attic and garage - with the 'recent purchases/donations' stuff in my room, there are a number of bog-standard shopping bags, each of which is thematic, so these piles are destined for the second phase of a three or four-phase process!

From the top left we have; wagons and wagon bits/horses; bits & pieces including buildings and scenics; motorcycles, riders and drivers; Civilian and sports - less footballers, then returning along the bottom row; footballers; sci-fi and fantasy; a little pile fo cavemen (below) and halloween/horror stuff (above), whith all the farm and zoo animals - bottom left.

Again clockwise from the top left; all ceremonial figures, highlanders and guards; historical including ancient and medieval; Wild West, a small pile of novelty cats (with a couple of new ones, I'll try to do them as a fun post over Christmas); the two wooden sentry-boxes we've seen now; 20th/21st century 'army men', khaki infantry and such-like; cartoon and TV/Movie-related, and finally; trains, planes, automobiles and some boats!

I never cease to be amazed at the stuff Chris (or Peter, Jim, Trevor, the two Brians et al), send to the blog, often as their chuck-outs or because they think I may be able to weave whatever it is into a post at some point, and indeed the blog is a voracious beast, so the more oddities we have the faster we can stoke it - witness the speed those two wooden sentry-boxes proved their worth!

The next two posts today will look at some of the highlights, but Chris; thank you very much.