News, Views Etc . . . Press Releases!

The first will be familiar to most of you, having been on the Friends of PW and PW Faceplant pages, the PW Blog and elsewhere, they didn't have a date, but were still hopeful of getting something organized for the Autumn, that will not now come to fruition, and probably for the best?

There were two toy fairs in Florida about three weeks ago, they were reported to be populated with people who weren't wearing face-masks or observing social distancing, Florida is now outperforming the whole UK in deaths-per-day and positive tests, and that's with the lumpen blow-hard Trump, trying to keep tests down, as if you have less tests, you have less positives . . . no shit Sherlock!

I am lead to understand the German show - despite what you may have read elsewhere - was a bit of a washout, literally (as the heavens opened) as well as figuratively, with both dealers and punters sensibly staying away . . . and 'elsewhere' makes it up as they go along!

Meanwhile in photographs of the show, most of those present are seen taking their masks off or wearing them round their necks like weird scarves! You can't attend these things until you can trust everyone else to behave, as while you may keep your own mask on; your eyes are still a nice, damp, vector for the virus to enter you.

Only a fool* would go to any kind of organized event (pretty much what I said here on the 13th March) until we have either conquered Covid-19/Sars-CoV-2 (which may never happen) or we have compulsory face-mask wearing in public.

*Sadly, the last few years have shown about half the population to be fools at any given moment, a fact only reinforced by their behavior over the last few months!

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Meanwhile, over at Barney's Herald Toys & Models, there is important news for overseas customers, particularly those from the United States

"Royal Mail have recently issued a revised tariff of prices for International parcels, including a new pricing zone (World Zone 3) for the USA, which sees a significant rise in postal costs to the US. During the Worldwide pandemic, we would prefer to send all international packages tracked and we may have to send a supplementary invoice to cover the additional cost from a standard to a tracked service. Thank you for your understanding"

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It seems neither the size of a parcel, nor its contents are any barrier to nesting . . . even scraps of tissue paper . . .

. . . and she'd had her head stuck in the box before I got to the camera! [Chris - I got them! Re-listed about three times, but 30-odd-p each; can't complain!]