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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.

Monday, October 17, 2022

I is for Is It Just Me, or Is It Getting Chilly?

We had two heat-waves here, the first breaking three-year old 'new' records by 3°, a trend which if it continues would render large parts of Europe, Asia and the SE of Britain uninhabitable by humans - in a heat-wave - within about 20 years? But after the second, not so hot but more humid, so equally uncomfortable heat-wave, the weather has gone rapidly downhill, and it's got quite chilly, but then I guess it is October, maybe the summer just lasted too long!

Arctic Circle; Arctic expedition; Arctic Explorers; Capsule Toys; Esquimaux Dog Team; Esquimaux Novelty; Esquimaux Sled; Esquimaux Sledge; Esquimaux Sleigh; Esquimaux Toy; Ferrero Kinder; Ferrero Rocher; Inuit Dog Team; Inuit Sled; Inuit Sledge; Inuit Sleigh; Inuit Toy; Kinder Arctic Explorers; Kinder Figurines; Kinder Minifigs; Kinder Polar Explorers; Kinder Prize; Kinder Prizes; Kinder-egg; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Polar Explorers; Ski Racer; Ski Sticks; Skiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Steckbaustein; Steckfiguren; Winter Sports;
Anyway, seems like a good excuse to get the cold-weather gear out and check it over, these are all Kinder; 1980's/90's, and they are ready for anything the climate throws at them! 20/25mm at the top, 28/30mm compatible in the middle and a decet stab at 54mm with the 'steckfigur' at the bottom, who has lost the backs of his skis, and his boots . . . sniff! The silver blob was off some cartoon thing; long-lost.

Arctic Circle; Arctic expedition; Arctic Explorers; Capsule Toys; Esquimaux Dog Team; Esquimaux Novelty; Esquimaux Sled; Esquimaux Sledge; Esquimaux Sleigh; Esquimaux Toy; Ferrero Kinder; Ferrero Rocher; Inuit Dog Team; Inuit Sled; Inuit Sledge; Inuit Sleigh; Inuit Toy; Kinder Arctic Explorers; Kinder Figurines; Kinder Minifigs; Kinder Polar Explorers; Kinder Prize; Kinder Prizes; Kinder-egg; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Polar Explorers; Ski Racer; Ski Sticks; Skiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Steckbaustein; Steckfiguren; Winter Sports;
I have a blue/white one who has his boots, so if I ever find the missing ski sections I will be able to re-shoot them both in some sort of order? All polyethylene, and with moveable arms/articulated waist, they are a useful addition to Timpo and/or Britains polar explorer/Esquimaux/Inuit sets.

Arctic Circle; Arctic expedition; Arctic Explorers; Capsule Toys; Esquimaux Dog Team; Esquimaux Novelty; Esquimaux Sled; Esquimaux Sledge; Esquimaux Sleigh; Esquimaux Toy; Ferrero Kinder; Ferrero Rocher; Inuit Dog Team; Inuit Sled; Inuit Sledge; Inuit Sleigh; Inuit Toy; Kinder Arctic Explorers; Kinder Figurines; Kinder Minifigs; Kinder Polar Explorers; Kinder Prize; Kinder Prizes; Kinder-egg; Novelty Figurines; Novelty Prize Toys; Polar Explorers; Ski Racer; Ski Sticks; Skiers; Small Scale World; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Steckbaustein; Steckfiguren; Winter Sports;
There's the colour reversed version of this on evilBay at the movement, he's more of a novelty toy, and winter-sports rather than polar explorer or native hunter, but fun, Kinder, polystyrene and possibly a bit earlier, although still 1980's I think?

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