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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, June 18, 2026

F is for Follow-up, to the Follow-up - Row Cropthz? Oh boiy, oh boiy, oh boiy! Wa-hoo-wee! Lethz's get thiz thing movin', whaddaya thzay?! Wackqwackqwackqwackkqwackqwack!!"

More Daffy than Donald I fear, but I gave it a try! 
 
Well, I barely hide my disdain for the schmaltzy, 'classic' Disney characters, but when Brain Berke, roving reporter in New York sent me these, I have to say, I was quite chuffed, as it's an exquisite treatment of the dime-store style, row-crop tractor genre, and it is a genre, with die-cast and tin-plate, there's a whole field of them to collect!
 


Donald Duck, off to . . . do something . . . to a meadow! Brian reports it has no makers name, although the tyres (tires) seem to resemble the Banner ones, so might it have been by them, as a contract for the gift shops I assume the first two Disneylands (California and Florida) had, before the modern era of licensed and franchised everything?
 
Cheers Brain, a real doozy!

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