Lets congratulate Israel this week
(otherwise it's Trump/guns/Right Wing racism or Boris/Brwreakshit/Ireland -
great!) for invading the Moon with a colony of Moss Pigs! Not content with
their trading of arms to and from South Africa during the height of the
apartheid sanctions or helping Saddam's Iraq obtain long-range artillery and
'Supergun' technology/parts during the UN sanctions, Israel has managed to
break the one rule, the only rule you are supposed to keep . . .
. . . let me
explain, Ladies and Gentlemen; because it was considered a list would be too
complicated; plastic - no, banana-skins -
no, little bits of explosive bolt and Lander legs - yes &etc; all the
nations of the world signed up to a simple clause . . .
. . . 'Don't
contaminate the Moon'! But no, oh no . . . the Israelis - not perhaps your initial
choice for space-faring superpower - managed to fill their very FIRST, very experimental
Moon-shot with microscopic life, and then fuck-it-up, crashing the whole
caboodle into the cheesy-fizog!
I've read the books, I know what happens
now, in low gravity the indestructible tardigrades will evolve rapidly to fill
all ecological niches, realise we are an existential threat to their future and
start catapulting bulk-rubbish bins and mining-containers the size of lorries at
us like interplanetary ballistic meteors!
Buy toys but look to the skies . . .
Saturday's a wash-out (but with the current forecast it was going to be!) but
there's a few on Sunday.
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Toy Fairs
Sunday 11th August 2019
Barry Island (not
'Barry' CF63) - Chris Dyer Fairs
Barry Island
Railway Station, Station Approach, Barry Island, South Wales, CF62 5TH
Tel. - 01643
702 757
Mob. - 07966
694 579
Admission £2
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Ditton - SRP Toyfairs
Ditton Community Centre, Kiln Barn Road,
Ditton, Kent, ME20 6AH
Tel. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Exeter - Bulldog Fairs - 'Westpoint'
Westpoint Arena, Clyst St. Mary, Exeter,
EX5 1DJ
Tel. - 01373 452 857
Mob. - 07917 125 641
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission £4, each under-16 free with
adult, 'Early Bird' £10 from 08:30hrs
Southampton - Ron Lines - Southampton
Toy Fair
Blighmont Barracks, Millbrook Road West,
Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 0AJ
Tel. - 02380 772 681
10:00-14:30hrs (doors close to buyers
14:00hrs)
Admission £1, children under-12 free
(combine with Southsea's kite-flying event
- see below?)
Stafford - Barry Potter / BP Fairs - 'Stafford Showground'
The Preston
& Argyle Suites, Stafford County Showground, Weston Road, Stafford, ST18
0BD
Tel. - 01604 846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
10.30 -
15.00hrs
Admission
£4.00 (early-bird £8), OAP's £3.50, Children £1,
Free parking
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Tuesday 13th August 2019
Hook - Steven Clements Fairs -
Hook Evening Fair
Hook Community Centre, Hook, Hampshire,
RG27 9NN
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
18:30 - 21:30hrs
Admission £1
Free parking
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Auctions
Saturday 10th August 2019
[Runcorn]
On-line Auction - British Toy Auctions
The Auction Centre, 9 Berkeley Court,
Runcorn, Cheshire, WA7 1TQ
Tel. - 01928 579 032
Spalding - M&M Auctions
Unit 4, Plover Court, Stephenson Avenue,
Spalding, Lincolnshire, PE11 3SW
Tel. - 01406 422 848
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Thursday 15th August 2019
Sheffield - Shefield Auction Gallery
Windsor Road, Heeley, Sheffield, S8 8UB
Tel. - 0114 281 6161
Viewing - Wednesday 14th 09:00 - 16:45,
from 08:30 on sale day
10:00hrs - Finish
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Other Events
(it's nearly all bloody Lego; the end
of the world will be Lego themed!)
From Thursday 8th (yesterday) until
Monday 2nd September 2019
Knowsley
- Knowsley
Safari Park - Ultimate Brick Safari
Knowsley Safari Park, Knowsley, Prescot,
Merseyside
Lego lifesize wild animals
From Thursday 8th (yesterday) until
Sunday 3rd November 2019
Newcastle-upon-Tyne - Discovery Museum -
Brilliant Bricks
Discovery Museum, Blanford Square, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Famous inventions from history recreated in
Lego bricks
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Saturday 10th August 2019
Basingstoke - Dai Lawrence, RAF - The
Battle of Britain
Basingstoke Discovery Centre/Public
Library, Festival place Shopping Centre, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Tel. - 01256 478 670
14:00-finnish
Admission £4
Presentation lecture/readings from a
serving RAF SNCO on the Battle of Britain and what it still
means to the RAF today.
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Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th August
2019
Southsea - Portsmouth International Kite festival
Southsea Common, Southsea, Hampshire
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Overseas Events
Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th August
2019
Dublin (Rep. of Ireland) - - Dublin
Comic Con
All other details here (very confusing
dynamic website I couldn't be arsed to wrestle with!);
Edison (USA) - Trainshow - Greenberg’s Great Train
& Toy Show
New Jersey Expo Center, 97 Sunfield Avenue,
Edison, NJ 08837, New Jersey, USA
10:00-16:00hrs
Admission $10 both days, $9 Sunday only,
under-11's free
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If you are
an event promoter/show curator/auctioneer and you want your toy, model,
collectable or popular-/youth-culture type sale/exhibition/event listed here - FOR FREE - or linked to; please eMail me -
maverickatlarge[at]hotmail[dot]com
- stating the
date/s of the event, address of event, contact details, opening/viewing times,
admission pricing and any other relevant facts/details or features - parking,
travel notes, disability access, availability of refreshments, event subject
matter &etc.
And please
mention any flyer-art or poster-/leaflet-scans but send by separate eMail, in
case they go to the 'junk' folder,
from where they can be recovered and marked safe, but only if I know they're
there!
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Received with Thanks
A parcel of polymer loveliness for the Blog
wung* its way from N5 on Monday, courtesy of Peter Evans, new colour of Chap Mai figures, a set of Wing Lung complete runners, two 'pop-trolls',
Thelma from Scoobie-Doo and a
rudie-nudie swizzle-stick were among the goodies which will feature here in the
months and years ahead, thank you Peter.
Previously; a parcel from Chris Smith was
received the other day, which has already been mentioned, and posts are in the
queue (posting Sunday), but this 'Received with Thanks' is a new (occasional)
feature of the Friday-dates post, so a
second thanks to Chris.
Imagery from Chris and Brian Berke has also
popped into the in-tray in the last fortnight.
*Birds are winged, parcels are wung, I'm
sure of it!
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Other News
Charity Shops
A small piece in the Evening Standard
mentioned the fact that Charity Shops are currently doing well and seem to be
contributing to a pick-up in high-street footfall, and overall sales.
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Theme Parks / Attractions
As mentioned briefly last week, but in all
the papers over the weekend; even as Lego
was buying them, Merlin were
reporting poor performance of their attractions and a profit warning as visitor
numbers failed to meet expectations and forecast profits fell by a fifth.
By the middle of this week Disney were reporting similar problems
with their US operation; Likewise, Cineworld
(the cinema chain) have also [today] posted disappointing results. Are we
falling out of love with trash-culture? It's helped destroy the planet!
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H is for How They Come In
Better cover the ones I've flagged-up
already, first . . .
. . . nothing terribly exciting; another Chap Mai Hummer and a K&M moon-buggy both of which I think
we've had here before, I've also comparison'ed the K&M on the Airfix
astronauts post (the accompanying K&M
stand-alone figures are much bigger), but won't trouble you with a link for the
one shot when you've just seen the thing here!
I also picked this up last Friday an hour
before posting the dates for this week-gone, he's got no holes in him so not a
Christmas-tree thing, probably from a set of building blocks or a 'my first
castle' type thing? Or . . . he may be a piece from a shape-puzzle, or one of
those shape-filler trays?
This toob was found on Sunday, I almost never
go to town on Sunday's but this week I did and found an Aspro (Spanish jobber) branded toob of PVC-alike fishy fellows
(actually more than half of them are mammals or crustaceans, not fish!), which
will be looked at when the long-in-the-queue sea-creature round-up publishes.
Pound each for 12, it's pure, unmitigated
tat-shite, but it will prove useful at some point! We have one of the
independent or small/local chain pound-shops recently opened in an empty unit,
you know the type of establishment; vinyl-banner shop sign, minimal shop
fittings, tons of stuff you wouldn't give house room to, going for a quid
straight out of the plain outer cartons, or wire baskets - they have very
little of use, but these were worth a punt! Bootleg Snoopy, Miffy and that
Japanese cat . . . Hello Kitty
look-a-likes!
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Heads-Up - BP Fairs
I wouldn't normally issue a warning-order
for a regular show in a week or two (as you know), but Sandown Park which is
normally well into September is actually the middle of August this year?
Whether this will be the normal 'new' time (it regularises the gaps between the
four shows) or is just a one-off due to something 'horsey' happening on the
usual weekend I don't know, but if you're thinking it's still a month or so
away; think again - it's next Saturday; 17th August 2019
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Links
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Other Stuff This Week
Shot this wasp, outside an office block
near the train station! It's like a normal wasp, but with fewer, thicker-banded
stripes, I don't know if it's a summer visitor (or climate change migrant!)
over from France or the low countries, or one of our lesser parasitic wasps,
but it's pretty and often turns up in late summer, they hover over the lawn but
are hard to shoot - possibly looking for little 'lawn ants'?
I also found a very drunk 'normal' wasp in
my Victoria plum, so I dispatched it with a knife (kind to the wasp) and fed it
to the Venus Fly Trap - kind to the Venus Fly Trap!
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