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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.

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

P is for Puckator's Polymer Pencil Perchers!

Rather out of sequence, but the next couple of posts will reveal why, I picked these up at a garden centre over Wokingham way, somewhere near Arborfield. Those following the blog for the last few months, will have realised I've discovered garden centres to be a font of many things which have otherwise disappeared from the high-street, but then these huge 'mall' garden centres are why the 'High Street' is disappearing!
 
Pencil tops from Puckator, a name which has gone from near-generic to regular appearances here over the 18-odd years since I found the first dig-your-own-pirate crew! Two more Moomins, not long after the mini-torch, but the author's recently died, so now the money-men can really start making money for themselves rather than her, a phenomenon you often see after the death of a celebrity - capitalism stinks for the rotting carcass it's become. Note that one is an over-moulded semi-flat in relief.
 
And what is my third tree-climbing Panda, I think, and I know I've seen a couple of others? There's a single-issue collection idea there for someone with both limited space and a limited budget; you'd have to scour Alibaba and Amazon regularly!
 
Close-ups - Puckator!

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