I assume "...the best protective" is a government-issue condom over your
head?
And propaganda seems to have been the theme
this week with Modi claiming India to be the world's oldest democracy, even as
he turned a blind eye to yet another pogrom against the Muslims, who - it has
to be said - were (as the Moguls) among those running what is now four
countries (not one, Mr Modi) as a whole collection of fiefdoms, palatinates,
city-states, and dictatorships, a situation that existed when Alexander went to
war against several of the not even slightly democratic kingdoms of inherited
monarchy!
Meanwhile Boris is determined to start a
fight with the EU, do they (Brwreakshiteers) not understand that 'we' voted
out, they didn't vote us out, they don't own us a bean, we owe them for everything
we signed-up for which might not have gone-ahead if we hadn't signed-up for it!
While Trump talks to us all like a five-year-old, trying to get the blame onto his bother! He's now put Pence in charge of Corvid-19, despite cutting the budgets of all the agencies likely to deal with the thing! It's priceless, humanity ends not with a glorious bang, but a bunch of voted-for wimpers!
We've till got toys . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 29th February 2020
Sandown
Park - Barry
Potter / BP Fairs - 'The' Sandown Park Show
Exhibition
Centre, Sandown Park Racecourse, Esher, Surrey, KT10 9AJ
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
Fax. - 01604
771 070
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission - Adults
£6.50p, seniors £6, children £2, early bird (from 08.00hrs) £10.00
Tons of free parking
Best show in the calendar, I'll be there!
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Sunday 1st March 2020
Ashington - David Parsons - Toy
& Train Collectors Fair
Ashington Community Centre, Foster Lane,
Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3PG
Web. - www.modelcarmart.co.uk
eMail - modelcarmart@gmail.com
Tel. - 01424 846 676 (Pete)
Mob. - 07742 609 865 (David)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Adults £1.50, concessions £1
Falkirk, Scotland - McLaren Models
Tel. - 01324
624 102
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
Lincoln - J&J Fairs (John
& Julie Webb)
The Exhibition Centre, Lincolnshire
Showground, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, LN2 2NA
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs Approximately
Admission £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st child
£1.50p
Needham
Market - Stowmarket
Railway Club (club event)
Needham Market Community Centre, Shool
Street, Needham Market, Sulfolk, IP6 8BB
Web. - www.stowrailclub.org.uk
Tel. - 01449 672 698
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission - £1.50p, accompanied children
free
Wheelchair access, free parking,
refreshments
Newton
Abbot - Ray
Heard Train & Toy Fairs
Newton Abbot Racecourse, Devon, TQ12 3AF
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01823 480 097
10:00 -15:30hrs
Admission £2.00
Free parking, refreshments
Tewkesbury - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs
Tewkesbury School, Ashurst Road,
Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, GL20 8DF
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 652 773
Mob. - 07825 631 323
10:30 - 14:00hrs
Admission £2, free parking
Still; Newish Date - Newish Venue
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Auctions
Monday 2nd March 2020
Rayleigh - Staceys Auctioneers
Essex Auction Rooms, 37 Webster's Way,
Rayleigh, Essex, SS6 8JQ
Web. - www.staceyauction.com
eMail - info@staceyauction.com
Tel. - 01268 777 122
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Wednesday 4th & Thursday 5th March
2020
Ludlow - Mullock's Specialist
Auctioneers and Valuers - (2-day sale)
Ludlow Racecourse, Bromfield, Ludlow,
Shropshire, SY8 2BT (sale venue)
Web. - www.mullocksauctions.co.uk
eMail - reception@mullocksauctions.co.uk
eMail - auctions@mullocksauctions.co.uk
Tel. - 01694 771 771
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Friday 6th March 2020
Taunton - Greenslade Taylor Hunt
(GTH)
The Octogon Saleroom, 113a East Reach,
Taunton, Devon, TA1 3HL
Web. - www.gth.net
eMail - antiques.saleroom@gth.net
Tel. - 01823 332 525
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Other Events
From Yesterday 'till Sunday the 29th
March 2020
York - York Museum - Viking
Trail
Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens, York
Web. - www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk
Activities, prizes
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Saturday 29th February & Sunday 1st
March 2020
Manchester - Nerfwar - Nerf War Carnival
Event City, Manchester
Web. - www.nerfwarcarnival.com
Mad event for 'Madchester'!
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Sunday 1st March 2020
Brighton - Love Fairs - Antiques,
Collectables & Vintage Fair
Brighton Racecourse, Freshfield Road,
Brighton
Web. - www.lovefairs.com
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Overseas Events
Saturday 29th February 2020
Three Doll Shows (all USA)
Los
Angeles - Northshore
Doll Club - Luncheon
Pinewood Country Club, Slidell, Los Angeles,
USA
Punta
Gorda - Port
Charlotte Doll Club - Annual Show & Sale
Charlotte Harbor Event Center, Punta Gorda,
Florida, USA
Roseville - Crossroads Doll & Bear Show
The Grounds, Placer County, Roseville, CA,
USA
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Mount
Hope (USA)
- CJ Trains - Mount Hope Toy &
Train Show
Mount. Hope Event Centre 8076 OH-241, Millersburg,
OH 44654, Ohio, USA (venue)
CJ Trains, LLC, P. O. Box 446, Wooster, OH
44691, Ohio, USA (promoter)
Tel. - ++13 302 627 488 (promoter)
Tel. - ++13 306 746 188 (venue)
Web. - http://www.cjtrains.com
eMail - cathijon@sssnet.com (Cathi / Jon
Ulbright)
10:00-16:00hrs
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission $5.00, children 12 & under free
Refreshments catered by Mrs. Yoder’s Kitchen
Refreshments catered by Mrs. Yoder’s Kitchen
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Saturday 29th February & Sunday 1st
March 2020
Edison (USA) - Trainshow - Greenberg’s Great Train
& Toy Show
New Jersey Expo Center, 97 Sunfield Avenue,
Edison, NJ 08837, New Jersey, USA
Web. - http://trainshow.com/edison/
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission $10 both days, $9 Sunday only,
under-11's free
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Sunday 1st March 2020
Erie
PA (USA)
- Carl Amidon - Railroadiana &
Model Train Show
Rainbow Gardens, Waldameer Water Park, 200 Peninsula Drive, Millcreek, Pennsylvania,
USA
Tel. - ++4 404 658 845
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission $5.00
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable, military, historical or popular-/youth-culture type
sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE - or linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating
the date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing
times, admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features -
parking, travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event
subject matter &etc. And a link; if the event or your organisation has a
web-page.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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H is for How They Come In
At one point there wasn't going to be
anything here this week, which suited me as I wanted this week's date post to
be quick and easy, but then on Thursday (yesterday) three purchases were made
in a few minutes in three different charity shops, none of whom had had any
stuff for the first half of the week . . . and I may yet pick-up some stuff
today?
When I say none though, I had rejected a
tub of those intermediate-scale 99p Store-Poundland
figures the Man of Tin does such great things with,
and I also failed to buy a small bag of farm which was mostly sub-sub-piracies of
Blue Box stuff and a Britains horse with no tail!
As a result, when I saw these I paid
too-much for them (pound-each), thinking they'd be 'something' . . . although I
might still have got them if there wasn't a Friday Dates post to feed, as one's
a nice composition piece (dough-craft or chalk-ware, it's not clear) and the
other; Ovaltine's resin piece titled 'The Wheelbarrow' is new to me and has
a toy figure (penguin) within a toy figure!
A more bearable 50p; I think these are the
recent Paperchase iteration, and I've
probably got them all, but having only upgraded the Dinoraser box, to a larger
one, just the other day, there's expansion room (the lid had been a bit wobbly
for a while!) and there's always the longer term goal of each colour in each
pose, once you’ve ticked the 'at least one of each colour or pose' box!
Across the road and for another 50p was a
proper bag'o'bits, with something for everyone, insects, animals, amphibians,
fish and crustaceans! So in the end, the week provided a mix of stuff for the
next sorting session.
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Received with Thanks
More images from Mr Berke in New York this
week, including a powered 1:76th scale tank which knocks my recent B/O purchase
into the long grass (follow-up forthcoming) but he also corresponded with
Hornby after Wednesday's Toy fair 2020 posts and is sad to report that the blue
& white striped box (which was used with '3-rail' originally) actually
contains a modern 2-rail runner (so ought to be in a red & white stripped box!),
while the Dublo-Dinky's have already been seen in the Skeldale range of scenery,
so more disappointment in the centenary sets! Thanks for all help and input Brian.
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Toys in the Media
A while since we had one of these, but I
couldn't let this pass . . .
. . . it's a ne'kid Barbie-Cindy-Bild Lilly
type 'fashion' doll, anyone recognise the neutered pudenda? Go and have a cold
shower, you filthy reprobate! David Sedaris is an extremely funny, erudite,
social commentator and this collection of his short stories and readings was
going for a song at the local library, so I bought it for the good read, the
fact that it had a toy on the cover was a bonus!
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Links
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This Week I Are Bin Mostly . . .
Sortin' Army Men!
Actually I had three nights in the attic
and sorted flats, dinosaurs and all the military which has come in over the
last year or so, three lots - the ancient & medievals, the
ceremonial-historical-colonial and the WWI-II-Modern.
In the doing of which I found the
'pony-tail' and Spetznaz types Chris Smith had sent me a while ago,
along with a third US Fritz-helmet type who seems to go with them, but had
ended up with the above 'Odds & Sods' (centre left, rifle across body), so
apologies' to Chris for temporarily misplacing them; after a suitable time
period, and assuming more of this stuff will turn up from various sources,
we'll have another look at them!
