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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.

Sunday, May 16, 2021

News, Views etc . . . Herald Toys & Models

Two messages from Barney this weekend, both went to junk-mail for some reason, but are still only a day or two old;

"Yesterday [Thursday 14th May] the site was down for most of the day due to a technical issue (the storage was full). This has now been fixed by osCommerce who provide support for the site. Going forward a whole system upgrade may be required as the php version is antiquated and in need of an overhaul. Once done it should improve your user experience and security of the site."

and;

"We have just added to the website the last of our Trojan Farm Series animals, a standing Bull (copy of a Timpo hollow-cast model) from the Bradford collection of early plastic farm animals. Identified by their slightly odd pinprick marks, these Trojan farm models are extremely hard to find and our understanding of this range is very much in its infancy. Most were copies of Timpo, Tim-Mee and other makers."

So pop-over and see what's still available! 

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