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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, August 29, 2021

S is for Single Solitary Shelfie!

We haven't had any new selfies this RTM, to which end I shot this in Poundland, Newbury yesterday!

Both Poundland and the late 99p Stores have carried these in the last few years, indeed I think I've also shelfied them in Poundworld/Poundworld Plus at some point, and might have seen them in 98p Store in Reading (yes, eventually you get to the unworkable retail model!), but these are not the ones we;ve seen previously; they are a much poorer 2nd generation copy, of something which was already pretty crude . . . doesn't stop Mark at Man of Tin doing magical things with them, some paint and a scalpel!


2 comments:

Mark, Man of TIN said...

Thanks for the blog mention of my work on the penny / tuppeny dreadfuls.

The Wargaming Pastor at Death Zap also deserves honourable mention for his work with these figures https://thedeathzap.wordpress.com

Hugh Walter said...

Well, I'm always impressed how you get spacemen and colonials from the same blob!

H