I can't remember why I was in the Fleet Library back in April, probably looking for someone, but I happened to see what was in the 'Christmas Toy Display' cabinets, and found this. I also noticed Fleet and Crookham Historical Society, seem to have been renamed Fleet and Croockham Local History Group?
[They've loaded back to front again, and I can't be arsed to switch them all round, it's only NTS imagery, and it leaves the chocolate wrappers down the bottom, near the Internet image of similar stuff, so it's sort of sorted itself out]
Definitely remember the Monarch seed packets!
It's funny how many of them I recognise, I'm only sixty-one, but a good half my life is 'ancient history' to almost everyone under thirty! Rudolf Hess, I met him twice, in my duties, yet, he's history, proper history to every single person born after about 1985, and many born in the years immediately before.
This went through Facebook the other day, it's frightening how many have gone, and how bland the choice actually is these days, I tried to buy a
Topic the other day, and couldn't find one, Googled them, and they've gone! Just like that, partly my fault for not buying enough, "Use them or lose them", under Capitalism, the customer's never been right!
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I am a hoarder. I collect (actually I would now have to say "collected"), postcards, photos of post offices, football programmes, records, Irish coins.
And of course toy soldiers.
I now only concentrate on soldiers.
If I was to be "positive", Id say, its aboit my lifelong interest in histpry or even that collectors pf ANUTHING are born with a "collecting gene". Collectors of anything (say cigarette packets) inderstand the people who collect beer mats.
We all have different interests but understand each other.
If I was being negative, Id say that my hoarding comesfrom an inability to make friends at any part of my life.
I think the 'spectrum' has a lot to do with it, not only are a lot of collectors quite excentric, or quixotic, but within the hobby are a lot of artists, designers, gardeners, thespians and other 'creatives', I suspect it's all connected to levels of Higher autism/Asperger's? That need to feed the brain, when life may otherwise be dealing only lemons!
Then there's the more Freudian theory, that we collect to prove to our parents (or whoever) that we can hunt, successfully, in an age when hunting is either not easy, not practicable, or frowned-upon? Shopping therapy's another possible 'syndrome' driving us, but actually, that's the same victory of the kill!
And while I gave my Beer mats away years ago, and sold my Micro-armour to a mate for a tenner in 1982, I do have Matches (not boxes), inert Ammo, miliaria, early graphic novels, the 'Family' stamp collection (third generation to hold it), Camel and Guinness smokeriana/breweriana and now, bookplates . . . among other things! So it's a many-branched tree, this collecting mania.
But mostly . . . it's fun!
H
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