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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, December 10, 2023

A is for Athenaeum's Annual Airing of Amusements

And so to Fleet library for the hoped-for and found exhibition of old toys, and as in previous years a fine collection of nostalgia-buttons await the visitor, this year they have dived the main cabinet into four themes with the low display case having construction toys.

The Farm




The Garden








The Zoo




The Aquarium






 
Educational Construction Toys
 






And many thanks to Fleet Historical Society for putting this on every year, remember the Tories have closed over 800 libraries in the last 13 years, and rely on volunteers and non-book related activities to keep the remaining ones open or relevant.
 
Disgusting, I know, but with half the population to the left of the bell-curve (because they never used libraries?) and voting, it's not something (the destruction of community learning) which we've seen the back of.

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