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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.
Showing posts with label Apples to Pears. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Apples to Pears. Show all posts

Thursday, January 16, 2020

C is for Christmas Exhibition - 6 of . . . err . . . 5! - Tour Eiffel

While editing part three I noticed a reference to another model, and - upon returning to the library here in Fleet after Christmas - found that indeed there was a final model perched on top of the main cabinet, out of the way of the hands of smaller visitors!

2019 Fleet Library; Apples To Pears; Blackpool Tower; Christmas Exhibition; Construction Set; Construction Toy; Eiffel Tower; Engineering; Fleet & Crookham Historical Society; Funktürm Berlin; Gloucestershire-Based Company; Hex-Drive; Meccano And Similar; Meccano-Like; Metal Construction Toys; Metal Toy; Small Scale World; Small Tin; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tour Eiffel;
It's Blackpool Tower I think, or maybe the Funktürm in Berlin . . . Ally-pally? One of those giant pylons anyway! From a Gloucestershire-based company - Apples to Pears - it's more Meccano-like stuff but with the aid of the modern IKEA furniture-construction tool; a hex-drive!

2019 Fleet Library; Apples To Pears; Blackpool Tower; Christmas Exhibition; Construction Set; Construction Toy; Eiffel Tower; Engineering; Fleet & Crookham Historical Society; Funktürm Berlin; Gloucestershire-Based Company; Hex-Drive; Meccano And Similar; Meccano-Like; Metal Construction Toys; Metal Toy; Small Scale World; Small Tin; smallscaleworld.blogspot.com; Tour Eiffel;
Joking apart, the Eiffel tower is extraordinary, as it's A) huge, compared to all its look-a-likes and B) was built on a whim with no end-use other than being looked at or enjoyed . . . and it's still there!

This one comes carefully packed in a small tin!