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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.

Sunday, March 9, 2025

T is for Terra by Battat - 2023

As a first update to the previous post, there was nothing of note at the 2022 show, and while I missed the 2023 show due to other commitments, I did make it to the Spring [gift] Fair at Birmingham's NEC, where I shot these on a whole-seller's stall, whose name I didn't record.
 



Close-ups of things we've seen before, for the most part, I haven't seen that much 'out and about' but I'm guessing natural history museum's or zoological garden gift shops are a first choice for searching for them, with - maybe - a garden centre chain I haven't found yet being another likely source? We have shelfied a few in TK Maxx I think, but I haven't seen them in Smyths or B&M?

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