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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.

Saturday, September 11, 2021

News, Views Etc . . . Obituaries

Given how sombre the day has been today (more-so than the 10th anniversary?), I thought upbeat or trite stuff about toys was out of place, and having got well behind with News Views . . . and links, here at Small Scale World over the last nine-months, it is the day for sad news . . .

Ron Angelon
https://obituaries.kokomotribune.com/obituary/ronald-angleton-1082992291

Melvin Aria (MA Toy Soldiers)
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/inquirer/name/melvin-aria-obituary?pid=199597871

Dave Bills (Wallace Ladmo Show)
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/artist-dave-bills-wallace-ladmo-show-has-died-11771252

Charles Byron
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/fredericknewspost/obituary.aspx?n=charles-byron-fulks&pid=197602120&fhid=9951

Bruce Miller
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/louisville/name/bruce-miller-obituary?pid=199892757

Thomas Sandford
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/wiscnews/name/thomas-sanford-obituary?pid=197654895

Charlie Watts, late of the Rolling Stones (a popular Beat combo'!) who collected American Civil War memorabilia, including Toy Soldiers, among his other pastimes; vintage cars, breeding horses (Arabians) and antique silverware, he was a percussionist of some note[s] too!

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