It's always fun finding out how other people do Christmas, because it's not all the modern iconography of Albert, Prince-consort, Th...

I said the other day that I'd misplaced both the Speedwell 'master' tub and the spares bag . . . . . . well, the spares...

That's it I'm afraid, we've come to the end of the images! On the left of the shelf are a few of the many animals issued over ...

Back to construction vehicles, a whole grid of F1 racers (one of the Spanish or Turkish chocolate egg issuers had a similar set), an equal...

Yesterday's archers from the other side, the simple two-part knights who were nice but rather relaxed poses and the wacky 'clip-to...

Two of the most sought after series of all the steckfiguren , the Samurai - which I've never been that impressed by - as sculpts they ...

The other half of yesterday's shelf has my favourites; motorcycles - I'm familiar with most of them but I don't recall the ...

More construction vehicles, 4x4's and family saloon-cars, I think it's fair to say green is less than common for the construction ...

Kinder meets Disney , these are among the easier to locate, but the toys that use the [non-standard] container as a part of the toy are l...

More Jeeps! A whole field of four-by-fours, kubels, dune-buggies and utes! You can see the gaps Mr. Ferretti is trying to fill, if yo...

More steckfiguren , more Indians, more aliens and some monsters, the little cartoony horse-riders, cartoony knights and the best versions ...

Steckfiguren - Cowboys, Indians, Mexicans, backwoodsmen workmen, alien-robots and both sides in the American Civil War, a stunning vista!

More vehicles, I've always liked the grand tourers (front, center-right) as they make useful staff-cars for 1:76th scale figures, but ...

♪♫  Trains . . . and boats and planes ♫♪♪ . . . . . . . .aaand...er...diggers! Burt, you forgot the diggers! Anyone wishing to corresp...

. . . FIVE FUGGIN SNOWMEN! Gina had rung-in sick and was still at his when the replacement-driver turned-up on the doorstep with ...

. . . 2 bloody Snowmen?!!   Now OK; admittedly, they were both small, but two of them? This is getting a bit odd now. What ...

. . . Whaaaaat   -   Eeehhh'Hevvv-VEurrr" Gina and he laughed, unloaded and they went down the pub . . . again . . . ! ==...

. . . Snow-ma-a-a-ann Num-beeeerrr Niiiine!" Gina was late this morning; they'd rather 'hung one on' in a little...