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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.

Sunday, March 2, 2025

I is for Insect Lore - More Recent Imagery

Quickly getting the rest up here - see previous post!
 
2023
 

Thinking I'd published the previous post, in the previous two years, I just shot a couple of confirmatory shots of the Toobs, seeing nothing else new on the stand! Trying to count the Insects, I get to about 14-likely, but with some hidden in the heap at the bottom of the tube, and behind the labels, I suspect they are both a 16-count?
 
2025


So, fresh from this year's Toy fair, and we have now got the life-cycle blisters extended with Ants and Honey Bees, the Ladybird's card graphics have been brought into line with the other four, and sets with squishy Ladybirds have been added.
 
So, if you weren't familiar with Insect lore, you now know as much as I do! I didn't see them at the Birmingham Spring Fair, on either visit, but they may have been there, perhaps in one of the Halls I didn't bother with?

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