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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.

Thursday, November 11, 2021

News, Views Etc . . . Speedwell Special!

Big news from Barney at Herald Toys & Models, on sale items going live on his site tomorrow . . . 

" . . . . this week we have for sale a large collection of Speedwell Farmyard models for sale, including the original trade boxes that were the focal point of the farm article that I wrote for the PW Speedwell Special, a couple of years ago. These trade boxes enabled us to confirm models that we had long suspected as being by Speedwell and others that came to light as Speedwell. These trade boxes will be available to buy tomorrow and are possibly unique if not extremely rare . . . . "
 
Not from Barney's sales - an old SSW 'library shot'!

Also there's the 2nd Sandown Park toy fair since the lock-downs on Saturday, I've heard the first Exeter after the lock-downs was poor, but the 2nd was much better, so let's see how it shapes up at Sandown this weekend?

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