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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.

Friday, January 5, 2024

L is for Last of the Season's Best to You!

I like to post something before midnight, when I get in from work, but I've been faffing about with a Carbonara, washing-up and vape-batteries, so, what can I say, mere culpa! Anyway, here's a quick shot of the items that went on the tree, new for 2015, which we may have had here already, which makes my self-convicted crime even worse!

Just in time, as they must all come down tomorrow, and that's Christmas for another year, I painted over the mawkish message on the bear, so he was just carrying a parcel, the smallies came from TKMaxx, Paperchase or Tiger, but I can't remember, they've all been doing them for the last few years, but none of them had them this year . . . well Paperchase have gone, of cource! All very useful for filling gaps at the end, and they leave the tree rainbow bright! The missing one was bright pink and went with the 'Gay Tree' stuff!

The two little glass ones are birds, and the other four were charity-shop baubles I think, all glass, with the clear one having sort of glass 100's & 1000's glued on. The nights are drawing out, the shortest day has been and gone, Easter-eggs are on sale, and soon it will be summer, then there's Christmas to look forwards too!

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