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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.

Monday, December 11, 2023

N is for Nuts!

We must have had that title before, if not it's well-overdue! It's getting how it isn't Christmas until we've had some nutcrackers here at Small Scale World, and it was all rather accidental in the first place with the Fleet BID giant cracker's leading to my shooting a few, buying a tree-sized one or two, and Brian starting to send shots of what's available over the pond.
 

And who's just got a dog nutcracker for the tree!!

Inclusivity, it hurts no one! Side-by-side like a piano keyboard.

The guards of gingerbread, Pride, lollypops and small white trees!

One of the Rat King's guards . . . Boooooo!

Paint-Your-Own guards!

Paint-Your-Own set of guards!
 
And while one nutcracker is pretty much like another, they are a perennial here now, so these are what Brian has found local to him this season, and I'll post my finds later today or sometime in the next few days, there's no plan here this month, beyond trying not to have two similar posts together, while clearing several 'seasons' - Chris's posts, railways posts and Christmas posts! Many thanks to Brian Berke for these!

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