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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.

Tuesday, October 8, 2019

M is for More on Mecki

Mr Berke of New York sent these into the blog, he bought them many years ago in Germany, and hopes to follow-up further, with more of the little Mecki figures, but it might be a year or two before he digs them out of the stash - a situation I can sympathise with!

Diehl-Film; Diehl-Film Munchen; Diehl-Film und Redaktionsgel; German Toy; German Toy Figurines; German TV/Movie Related; Hedgehog Canoeing; Hedgehog Climbing; Hedgehog Saving Frog; Hor Zu; Jakob Bolliger; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Gardening; Mecki The Hedgehog Playing Squeezebox; Mecki The Hedgehog Reading; Mecki The Hedgehog Sewing; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Munich Diehl-Film; Post Cards; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Verlag Jakob Bolliger;
There's something slightly disturbing about a lady-mouse with bare-legs in tights or stockings! And what's happened to Mr. Mouse's ears, is he trying to do a Micky impersonation? That's Micky the mouse, not Micky the Mrs. Hedgehog. It's as if they never finished them?

Diehl-Film; Diehl-Film Munchen; Diehl-Film und Redaktionsgel; German Toy; German Toy Figurines; German TV/Movie Related; Hedgehog Canoeing; Hedgehog Climbing; Hedgehog Saving Frog; Hor Zu; Jakob Bolliger; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Gardening; Mecki The Hedgehog Playing Squeezebox; Mecki The Hedgehog Reading; Mecki The Hedgehog Sewing; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Munich Diehl-Film; Post Cards; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Verlag Jakob Bolliger;
Threading a needle and picking Edelweiss of a cliff . . . they can be easier to find! Another worry is how many real hedgehogs were used in the production of the studio hedgehog puppets; that doesn't look like faux-fur to me! Indeed they are really gnomes with a whole-hedgehog head-transplant!


Diehl-Film; Diehl-Film Munchen; Diehl-Film und Redaktionsgel; German Toy; German Toy Figurines; German TV/Movie Related; Hedgehog Canoeing; Hedgehog Climbing; Hedgehog Saving Frog; Hor Zu; Jakob Bolliger; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Gardening; Mecki The Hedgehog Playing Squeezebox; Mecki The Hedgehog Reading; Mecki The Hedgehog Sewing; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Munich Diehl-Film; Post Cards; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Verlag Jakob Bolliger;
I love the little appfelsaft glass, I have many happy memories of stopping in these big roadside 'country-club'/beer hall/restaurant things in the meadow-valleys of Bavaria or Wuttenberg and having a large glass of ice-cold apple-juice; huge wooden chalets, with painted murals and colourful window-boxes, tables out in the sun and being allowed to say "Noch-mal" or "Eine-mal" and having the waitress tick my beer-mat with her biro!

Meanwhile Macki and Mucki are about to dive into a blank-monge! Funny; you give small black eyes to an alien in a sci-fi movie = evil; give the same eyes to a stuffed hedgehog = cute!

Diehl-Film; Diehl-Film Munchen; Diehl-Film und Redaktionsgel; German Toy; German Toy Figurines; German TV/Movie Related; Hedgehog Canoeing; Hedgehog Climbing; Hedgehog Saving Frog; Hor Zu; Jakob Bolliger; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Gardening; Mecki The Hedgehog Playing Squeezebox; Mecki The Hedgehog Reading; Mecki The Hedgehog Sewing; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Munich Diehl-Film; Post Cards; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Verlag Jakob Bolliger;
Saving frogs was never more salient than now, to be honest thought, that frog looks either dead and beyond help, or very hung-over! While I'm not sure if he's planting something exotic in the right-hand image, or cursing the spread of the dreaded wild-garlic to his allotment?

Diehl-Film; Diehl-Film Munchen; Diehl-Film und Redaktionsgel; German Toy; German Toy Figurines; German TV/Movie Related; Hedgehog Canoeing; Hedgehog Climbing; Hedgehog Saving Frog; Hor Zu; Jakob Bolliger; Macki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog; Mecki The Hedgehog Gardening; Mecki The Hedgehog Playing Squeezebox; Mecki The Hedgehog Reading; Mecki The Hedgehog Sewing; Micky The Hedgehog; Mucki The Hedgehog; Munich Diehl-Film; Post Cards; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Verlag Jakob Bolliger;
The reverse of the cards; thanks Brian, with these and Peter's group the other-day we have definitely 'informed, educated or entertained' the audience about Mecki, here at the Better Blogging Corporation!

2 comments:

Jan Ferris said...

How very quaint!

Hugh Walter said...

Aren't they Jan! Very 1950's going on 1860-somthing!

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