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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.

Friday, September 4, 2020

P is for Posh Tiddlywinks!

We've seen the figures once or twice in comparisons or H is for . . . 's, but here is the whole game, with .gif! Wadington's Table Soccer, a football game in a board-game box, but not really a 'board' game.

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The box, as we've seen the figures before the artwork's depiction of the player might come as a bit of a surprise as it shows a reasonable rendition of a chap in 'footie bags' waiting for the whistle, yet we know the actual playing pieces are more . . .

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. . . blob-like! However, casting back to the previous shot - this is because it turns out they are, or need to be; robust 'sticks' for firing tiddlywinks! Although this was in storage I'd forgotten that basic element of the game, it's a fancy version of tiddlywinks!

The likelyhood of them breaking (and you often find them either broken or glued near the ankles (occasionally missing a head!), lead to a spare on each side, and the chap I introduced as a referee previously is - in fact - the goal-keeper, or 'pair' of goal keepers! I put an extra figure for each team in years ago, just 'cos I had them.

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4-4-2 v 5-2-3!

A .gif which shows first all the components of the tray and then a set-up for a match with the 'casualty substitutes' placed with 2 spare 'balls' on the far touchline - well; you might lose one under the skirting-board!

Note also that the playing 'board' is not the usual hardback book-binders heavy card, but something more akin to washing-powder box card, which folds in three, and the goals clip to each end with a pair of little studs.

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What she thinks of Deadbeat Hairstrand's meme!

You see me here, you see me there, you see me pretty-much everywhere! I was . . . err . . . looking for . . . stuff! Yeah! That's it, I was looking for stuff; he keeps complaining about all the stuff so I thought I'd check-see if there was any stuff to remove!

The lawn is looking more like an Arizonan 'yard' after the weird weather we've had this year!

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