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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, September 19, 2025

W is for Wooden Jolly Boat

Actually, with triangular sails, I think it’s technically a yacht? Brian Berke has been busy getting his Pirates shot for Pirate Talking day, and these are his Hing Fat's, crewing a high-speed raiding schooner, or sloop?
 

The 'Yellow Peril'!
 



Pride - Plundering!


I think we saw a rather dodgy/fuzzy shot of  Hing Fat's own bottle-bag with header card (upper image), in a past post, so better ones are gratefully received, and vaguely remember even poorer shots from the defunct Marshall's wholesale catalogue, we've also seen a better Billy V version, but the lower image here, D&D Distribution's carded bag is new to blog, so new to ITLAPD! We shall return to this boat later! And thanks to Brian.

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