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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, December 13, 2024

S&S is for Sublime and Seasonal

Brian Berke, our roving reporter in New York, has come-up trumps again, with this year's Christmas flats from Scully & Scully's window display in that fair city. Fighting reflection, and retaking a few, it's an interesting lot, with some of the more whimsical ones we're used to, and one or two more Dickensian styled vignettes of older children doing more mundane or domestic tasks . . . Well, one, roasting nuts!

No blurb needed on these now, you know the drill!














My favourite I think, I like the allusion to the Nativity story!


Many thanks to Brian for these, and everything else he does for the blog, in the course of a year. I believe NY is pretty arctic at this time of year, so going into the street and releasing fingers to operate camera's is dedication! And it's only ten-days to the big event, so I'll wish you and yours, all a merry Christmas, in case I forget, nearer the day!

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