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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.

Thursday, January 16, 2020

C is for Christmas Exhibition - 6 of . . . err . . . 5! - Tour Eiffel

While editing part three I noticed a reference to another model, and - upon returning to the library here in Fleet after Christmas - found that indeed there was a final model perched on top of the main cabinet, out of the way of the hands of smaller visitors!

2019 Fleet Library; Apples To Pears; Blackpool Tower; Christmas Exhibition; Construction Set; Construction Toy; Eiffel Tower; Engineering; Fleet & Crookham Historical Society; Funktürm Berlin; Gloucestershire-Based Company; Hex-Drive; Meccano And Similar; Meccano-Like; Metal Construction Toys; Metal Toy; Small Scale World; Small Tin; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tour Eiffel;
It's Blackpool Tower I think, or maybe the Funktürm in Berlin . . . Ally-pally? One of those giant pylons anyway! From a Gloucestershire-based company - Apples to Pears - it's more Meccano-like stuff but with the aid of the modern IKEA furniture-construction tool; a hex-drive!

2019 Fleet Library; Apples To Pears; Blackpool Tower; Christmas Exhibition; Construction Set; Construction Toy; Eiffel Tower; Engineering; Fleet & Crookham Historical Society; Funktürm Berlin; Gloucestershire-Based Company; Hex-Drive; Meccano And Similar; Meccano-Like; Metal Construction Toys; Metal Toy; Small Scale World; Small Tin; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tour Eiffel;
Joking apart, the Eiffel tower is extraordinary, as it's A) huge, compared to all its look-a-likes and B) was built on a whim with no end-use other than being looked at or enjoyed . . . and it's still there!

This one comes carefully packed in a small tin!

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