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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.

Thursday, November 27, 2025

T is for Two . . . More!

Having mentioned them twice today, I might as well chuck them up here now, for the thème du jour! Two charity shop finds earlier this week, both from the Debra store in Fleet, I've done all the charity shops in the last few days (week off!), and they have proven pretty disappointing, and quite a few have gone/closed down now, but I found a few bits to show, and this is two of 'em!
 
Having already picked-up the one below, I grabbed this one too, squeezed his feet together and thought, "Oh, it's one of those new vinyl ones?", but in the clear light of day, or at least when I got it home and had a proper look, I realised he's a repurposed Fortnite character, to which a metal eye has been added for a hanging cord, so he'll lose both and join the other Fortnite stuff - stampers and key-rings - in the main figure collection.
 
Three of my favourite colours; heliotrope pink, kingfisher-blue and apple green, you'd think they wouldn't go together, but look at this column of magnificent, technicolor madness and agree to differ! Psychedelic Nutcracker rocks!
 
Except he's clearly incapable of cracking a nut, and, unusually for these, in any material, is carrying a musket, with bayonet, and has a base, so he's 100% a 22-carat, blown-glass, toy soldier, baby!
 
This year's finds together.

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