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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.

Tuesday, October 5, 2021

T is for The Author - Circa 1979!

Someone posted this on Faceplant, after it's hiatus yesterday - never has so much outraged-panic been wasted on such a technical non event, by so many, for so little gain!

Me (right) with my two best mates, a disco queen from Sri Lanka, a Mod/Rude Boy from Greece, via-Brentwood and a scruffy little runt 'Greebo' from Hampshire, the three of us were pretty inseparable for two/two-and-a-half years, we never joined any of the cliques or 'gangs' so tended to hang-around together. You're looking at a shipping magnate, a Colonel in the Rifles and err . . . a toy Blogger! Is that a mullet? Christ, I look like a Redneck!

4 comments:

Mark, Man of TIN said...

For a moment I thought it was Grange Hill revisited.

If you've not seen it, try Stranger Things on Netflix for such sci-fi retro 80s kid movie horror with D&D and the added horror of mullets in 80s small town America.

Hugh Walter said...

I'll take me a while to get over this Mark!

H

Jan Ferris said...

Those were the days. Hanging out with buds and having an extremely good time.

Hugh Walter said...

Beats doing 'grown-ups' Jan!

H