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No Fixed Abode, Home Counties, United Kingdom
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.

Sunday, April 4, 2021

AF is also for April Fools . . .

 . . . all fools or - specifically - this fool in April! The previous post was of course not Teresa May, but the Jon Pertwee (ex-Dr Who) era Wurzel Gummidge, done as a pencil top, although, as Jan spotted; he did look more like Eddy Izzard or even Grayson Perry!

Dr Who; Farm Toys; Hong Kong; Jon Pertwee; Made in Hong Kong; Novelties; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Pencil Tops; Pencil Toppers; Pencil Tops; PVC Novelties; PVC Rubber; Scarecrow; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Wurzzle Gummage;

Courtesy of Chris Smith who got the images to me in plenty of time for an April Fool's two years ago, I can't remember why I missed it that first year, but then Covid-19 intervened last year, still, I have said in the past (with fingers crossed) that "...everything will get up here eventually!", and now it's Jon-call-me-Wurzel's time in the spotlight!

I don't know how many there were in the set, or who imported them but for their third non-empirical mention in the last few days; I wouldn't mind betting it was HCF into the UK, they are similar to the Star Wars pencil-tops we now know were HCF imports!

The costume on the left is the day-to-day or episode-to-episode clothing, while the 'Tereasa May' outfit was for finest or something! Britains did the one figure with different plug-in heads! And they are marked Hong Kong down the spine.


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