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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, April 9, 2023

S&S is for Happy Easter!

It's getting so it wouldn't be Easter without the seasonal eMail from Brian with a photo-report on Scully & Scully's latest Window Display from New York, and while their consistency is not so great at Halloween or Christmas, they always seem to pull the stops out fully at Easter. Further blurb can be found in previous posts, so with meany thanks to Mr. Berke; enjoy!








There is a surfeit of strange ironies in this one, a lead hare, making chocolate rabbits from tin moulds!




I'd add that Brian's photography, through plate-glass, with back-lit reflections, has advanced greatly since the first of these a few years ago, and as always, half the joy for me is seeing them in Picasa, all embiggened!
 
And apologies for calling Brian 'brain' a couple of times recently, it is just a typo, but spell checker never picks it up, and it sometimes takes a day or two for me to realise . . . mea culpa
 
The other thing which is worth pointing out, is that each year, it's a completely new set of sculpts, given they are the larger 'vignette' type, and all get a very tight, professional paint-job, it's clearly a labour of love, involving various parties, on two continents, every year, from start to finish? Happy Easter all.

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