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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, December 17, 2019

B is for Beatrix Potter's Sniper's Nest!

Now there's a title you wouldn't have expected to see on Small Scale World if someone had asked you yesterday!

So I've had a few days off - Crimbo stuff to do - and the world doesn't seem to have changed greatly, Mark-of-men-of-tin' seems to have invented a new country, which is fun! And I've got a few bits to schedule today for the next few days, but I'm easing off for Christmas, now I can see I won't manage 600+ on the posting total!

Picked this up the other day for reasons that will become obvious and it may still be findable if you fancy one, however - I can't remember what the title of the publication was?


Avon Bristol Road Bath; Beatrix Potter; CBBC; CeeBeebies; Film Characters; Kennedy Enterprises; Magazine Freebies; Magazine Giveaways; Movie Characters; Movie Promotionals; Movie Tie In; Mr. Todd; Peter Rabbit; Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Fox; Toy Peter Rabbit; Toy Rabbit; TV And Film-Related; TV Characters; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
One of those carded novelty sets taped to a kid's magazine, you get an Iwako style ladybird, two of the two-part polystyrene figures common on these mag's and a hiding tree, all credited to Kennedy Enterprises of Avon. I think it was a CeeBeebies mag, but it went in a bin so quickly I didn't register it!

Avon Bristol Road Bath; Beatrix Potter; CBBC; CeeBeebies; Film Characters; Kennedy Enterprises; Magazine Freebies; Magazine Giveaways; Movie Characters; Movie Promotionals; Movie Tie In; Mr. Todd; Peter Rabbit; Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Fox; Toy Peter Rabbit; Toy Rabbit; TV And Film-Related; TV Characters; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
Peter Rabbit and Mr. Todd, the Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman! If nothing else they will join the Phidal and Timpo figures in a future Beatrix Potter figures' round-up.

Avon Bristol Road Bath; Beatrix Potter; CBBC; CeeBeebies; Film Characters; Kennedy Enterprises; Magazine Freebies; Magazine Giveaways; Movie Characters; Movie Promotionals; Movie Tie In; Mr. Todd; Peter Rabbit; Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Fox; Toy Peter Rabbit; Toy Rabbit; TV And Film-Related; TV Characters; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
But this is what decided me on an impulse purchase which had me buying a five-year-old's publication on the way back from town the other day and dumping it unread in the bin outside McColl's . . . a 'hiding tree', which while being an amusing novelty plaything for five-year olds, also looks like . . .

Avon Bristol Road Bath; Beatrix Potter; CBBC; CeeBeebies; Film Characters; Kennedy Enterprises; Magazine Freebies; Magazine Giveaways; Movie Characters; Movie Promotionals; Movie Tie In; Mr. Todd; Peter Rabbit; Sandy-Whiskered Gentleman; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Toy Fox; Toy Peter Rabbit; Toy Rabbit; TV And Film-Related; TV Characters; TV Related; TV Tie Ins;
. . . the sort of thing both sides would hide near their trenches under cover of artillery barrages in World War One. Here posed with a South American copy of an Elastolin composition figure, you can see it would look better - or just as good - with a 54m figure!

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