Now we hear that she swears at staff, wants
to get rid of her trained-professional civil-servants and is apparently 'out of
her depth', yet she has decided that the 8-million not in meaningful employment
(because they are old, infirm, in school, students, unpaid careers, in a pram,
in a coma, mentally or physically disabled, he long-term sick, in prison, or
missing presumed lost) can take up the slack left by departing Polish Uber drivers, or the fact that a points
system (already labelled fascist in Australia) which would have prevented her ancestors
coming here in the first-place will prevent Uber drivers arriving from Poland in the future!
And yet 46% of our fellow citizens voted
for this omnishambles of a klusterfuck government! Do I read like I'm coming
round to healed societal reunification under Boris? Or do I read like I'm
becoming even more divorced from the other, Brwreakshiteer, half?
Meanwhile one of Cumings (that's how I'll
spell it) 'wierdos' proved not to be so weird, as just simply a transparent,
self-declared, racist, racialist, eugenics-believing, patriarchal, sexist,
homophobic 'kill the poor's kids'
Nazi fuck . . . you can't make this shit up you know, you have to read it in
the paper!
And, in his arrogance, instead of slinking
away to Beachy Head and killing the fuck out of himself, he puts out a
statement saying he's been 'taken out of context'? You want to sterilise
the poor, you Nazi fuck; the only other interpretation is that you want the poor
to be sterilised!
Meanwhile, it turns out that the British
fishing industry (one of the big movers in the Brwreakshit debate) constitutes
less than half-of-one-percent (0.4-something) of the UK economy and that many
of the fish-stock quotas, licenses and/or vessels which were 'ours' have been legitimately,
legally sold to other European fleets or operators, the only way to get them
back will be to surrender Gibraltar, the Elgin Marbles and probably the
Sovereign Base Area's in Cyprus, but it [fishing] will still only constitute a
half-of-one-percent!
It would make more sense to put the money (if
there is any) into cycle repair-shops, white-van men or video-bloggers, than to
spend another penny on something which has changed forever, like coal-mining or
walking in front of a motorised carriage with a red flag! But NO! Brwreakshiteers
think "Go, cast your nets, yeah,
upon the waters, you sons of Britannia and thence shall Albion rise, leviathan-like;
a mighty phoenix, to take control of Africa again!"
Further afield some German Nazi shot-up the
shops for his mum, then had a pop at her, while the Orange Loon pardoned a
bunch of people who were probably only in trouble for knowing him! Still, at
least Trump is around & about, talking mentally-deranged shit - nice bit of
veiled-racism aimed at South Korea yesterday; Boris has gone doggo and is
running frit after being heckled at a flood visit the other day - coward!
Thank the lord of all gods; the Flying
Spaghetti Monster; we have toys to collect; it'll keep us sane . . .
Toy Fairs
Saturday 22nd February 2020
Maidstone - Michael
Spencer - Maidstone Vintage Toy
Fair
Lockmedow
Market Hall & Leisure Complex, Barker Road (Hart Street entrance),
Maidstone, Kent, ME16 8LW
Internet
presence unknown
Tel. - 01622
298 159 (Mike Spencer)
Mob. - 01732
840 787 (Geoff Martin)
09:00 -
15:00hrs
Admission
£2.50p
Park &
ride, pay and display parking, refreshments
Tauton - Ray Heard Train & Toy
Fairs
Richard Huish College, South Road, Taunton,
Somerset, TA1 3DZ
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01823 480 097
10:00 -15:30hrs
Admission £3.00
Free parking, refreshments
New Venue - New Show
Sunday 23rd February 2020
Cirencester - Retro Ronnie
Bingham Hall, King Street, Cirencester,
Glousecstershire, GL7 1JT
Web - www.retroronnie.com
Mob. I - 07708 385 061
Mob. II - 07900 266 427
10:00-hrs 'till finish
Admission unknown, early bird (from
08:00hrs)
Refreshments
Rayleigh - SRP Toyfairs
Sweyne Park School, Rayleigh, Essex, SS6
9BZ
Web. - www.srptoyfairs1.co.uk
eMail: srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Wirral - Barry Stockton Fairs - Merseyside Hobbies & Model
Railway Show
Hulme Hall,
Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62 5DH
Web. - http://barrystocktonfairs.co.uk/
Tel. - 01513 343 362
10:30 - 15:30
Admission - Adult £4.50p, Children £
Web. - http://barrystocktonfairs.co.uk/
Tel. - 01513 343 362
10:30 - 15:30
Admission - Adult £4.50p, Children £
York - J&J Fairs (J&J
Webb) - 'York Racecourse'
The Knavesmire Stand, York Racecourse,
York, Yorkshire, YO23 1EX
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission £2.50p, seniors £2, 1st child
£1.50p
Tuesday 25th February 2020
Garstang - Janet Pearson -
Garstang Evening Fair
Kirkland & Catterall Memorial Hall, PR3
0HR
Web-presence unknown
01282 439 009
18:00 - Finnish
Admission fee unknown
Auctions
Monday 24th Februaray 2020
Lewis - Wallis and Wallis
West Street Galleries, Lewis, Sussex, BN7
2NJ
Web. - wallisandwallis.co.uk
eMail - toys@wallisandwallis.co.uk
Tel. - 01273 480 208
Fax. - 01273 476 562
General Toy Sale
Tuesday 25th & Wednesday 26th
February 2020
Stockton-on-Tees - Vectis
Auctions (2-day sale)
Fleck Way, Thornaby, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17
9JZ
Web. - www.vectis.co.uk
eMail - admin@vectis.co.uk
Tel. - 01642 750 616
Sales commence at 10:30hrs
Wednesday 26th February 2020
Wisborough
Green - Bellmans
Auctioneers and Valuers
Newpound, Wisborough Green, West Sussex,
RH14 0AZ
Web. - www.bellmans.co.uk
eMail - sussex@bellmans.co.uk
Tel. - 01403 700 858
Other Events
There aren't many, so I've found a few
historical type heritage things for the weekend which may interest some of you?
And most of the stuff listed (in the first, condensed section of Other
Events) last Friday is finishing this Sunday.
Thursday 20th (yesterday) - Sunday 23rd
February
London - English Heritage -
Hands On With History
Eltham Palace and Gardens, Court Yard,
London, SE9
Saffron
Walden - English
Heritage - Hands On With History
Audley End House & Gardens, London
Road, Saffron Walden, Essex
(lovely 'Roman' maze in the town park too -
5 minutes drive from A-E)
Whitby - English Heritage -
Vikings! Swords and Stories
Whitby Abbey, Abbey Lane, Whitby, North
Yorkshire
Web. - www.english-heritage.org.uk (all
three events)
Interactive stuff, readings, displays,
living history
Sunday 23rd February
Maidstone - MGM Fairs - Doll &
Bear Show
Downswood Community Centre, Chiltern Close,
Downswood, Maidstone, Kent, ME15 8XG
Linnet Lodge, The Village, Wembworthy,
Devon, EX18 7RX (promoter)
Website - www.mgmfairs.co.uk
Email - enquiries@mgmfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 07818 462448
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission - adults/seniors: £2.50, children:
50p
Overseas Events
This Evening & Tomorrow all day
Warren (USA) - Great Lakes Comic Convention (GLCC)- The
Ten-Year Anniversary Show 2010-2020
The Macomb Community College Expo Center, 14500
E. 12 Mile Road, Warren, Michigan
48088, USA
Admission;
Friday 21st - 17:00-21:00hrs
Saturday 22 - 10:00-18:00 (09:30hrs early
bird admission)
Celebrity guests, signings etc . . .
Saturday 22nd & Sunday 23rd February
2020
Monroeville (USA) - Trainshow - Greenberg’s Great Train
& Toy Show
Monroeville Convention Center, 209 Mall
Blvd, Monroeville, PA 15146, Pennsylvania, USA
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission $10 both days, $9 Sunday only,
under-11's free
Free Parking On-Site
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!
H is for How They Come In
A slowish start to the week turened into a
bit of a flood on Thursday (yesterday), but back to the ebgining and actually
last Friday, in Basingrad which brought a total of five items . . .
. . . and I paid too much for the probably
home cast (or commercially sold from home-casting moulds) aeroplane, which, to
be fair, has some age. Triple-A
rubber Panda, a Splinter pencil-top
(or is he a duplicate Phidal?), a
vinyl 'smallimal' and a resin fairy made up the days finds.
Thinking - on Monday-evening - it might be
a quiet week, I took a few comparisons with another Panda that came in the
other day, both holding breakfast . . . or lunch . . . or dinner; they don't
eat anything else! And the wax fortress I got off Adrian a few years ago. The
metal one could be an attempt at a Mosquito
or a Beaufort, it's not that obvious
either way; it could be one of those AFD Fokker's
that's actually a Messerschmitt!
Then, on Tuesday I got two little 50p bags
(top left), a 'ling/'ding/'ming's bag (with another Panda!) and a medievals bag
which I should have left, the two down the bottom have gone already; one (ELC - damaged) in the recycling, one (Macky-D's lever-operated novelty) back
to charity. I kept the two HTI's and
the Papo 'Rikh'ard Cour de Leon', but
the HTI's are definitely duplicates
and Rich'urd's sword is bent!
Wednesday brought three larger bags from
two shops, the first (both right) giving-up a bag of animals and a bag of dino's.
The animals included two Schleich leopards
(beautiful models), a triple-A, two MEG's and an A&A, along with a bunch
of 'generics'. The dinos; a Triple-A
and a load of anonymous types including three plaster-block dig-em-out
skeletons, who still have clay-coloured plaster between their ribs!
The other shop's bag (bottom left) is
probably all Phidal, and earlier
stuff I think (2010's?), being smaller and base-less, but some of them may be
from another, similar source and the two Steampunk-bird 'Pirates' are totally
new to me!
Then I got three large bags from one shop
on Thursday gone and the week had given-up kilos of stuff! There was a bag of
ancients and medievals (bottom), a bag of Wild West (top) and a bag of mixed
farm & zoo including insects, reptiles, amphibians and some dinosaurs -
middle.
Each of which had some Crescent circus in! But the two in the 'wrong' bags are both
damaged which may be why they ended-up in those bags?
The ancient/medieval bag could have been
left really, although I think the black horse goes with the Supreme Wild West in the other bag, but
the Marx and Cherilea are both beyond saving and I have most - if not all - of
the foot Saracens, but only one mounted, so that's the highlight in the middle
lot above.
To the right I can add Schleich Lions and a Tiger to my earlier Leopard, which is nice!
Some marked Safari dino's, a Reliable bear (well, he wasn't that
reliable he waited until the last minute to show himself, leading to late-night
candle burning to get this done), and what I think is another Zowie (Okapi), for the post/s I haven't
forgotten!
While on the left the highlight is probably
the soft-plastic copies of Johillco's
hollow-cast (the red-blue-yellow pile middle left) cowboys and Indians. It's
all grist to the mill!
And I hadn't finished; paying too much for
the smaller pair of the poultry at 50p each and adding a bisque Santa Clause on
deer. The two ducks and swanny-goosie thing are professionally-painted hollow-styrene,
while Mr. Clause seems to be pinned to his saddle by a pair of particularly
sharp and pointy-pointy-thigh-pierce-annointy antlers!
Received with thanks
As you will have been aware last week,
Chris Smith went the extra-mile with 'pony-tail' and it's all sorted, to my chagrin!
While Brain B sent more Gnomes, more firefighters and other bits along with the
Dino' we've already slotted into a post earlier this week, he also sent several
lots this week including more firefighters; many thanks to both.
And this morning I took delivery of a fat
bundle of catalogues and ephemera from Peter Evans, so many thanks to him too!
And Finally;
Oh! A
bag . . . bags are a whole different kettle-of-ball-game-fish to boxes; they
have lurking lurgies and must be checked right down to the sock-end!
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