B is for Car, no! C is for Boat, Doh!

Looked at a while ago, and I think I published both halves, but in different posts, here they are together!

Bath-toy, carpet-toy, bath-toy, carpet-toy . . . brilliant! "Hey Kiddo, any idea why the carpet's wet?" Maker unknown, possibly US of A, dime-store type thing?

5 is for "On the fifth day of Chrissssstmaaas, His True Love Sent to Hiiiiiiimmm...."

We've got it; Snowman No. 5

He and Gina had a bit of a laugh about it over coffee; still - more time for a chat, as they'd got the unloading down to 12 minutes!

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Another Chalkware figurine

P is for Pride - The Lion

Another piece of tat I found on clearance a couple of few years ago, this is the Olympic team's mascot (as opposed to those awful abominations that represented London2012), whether it was just for those Olympics (hence a 2014 clearance) or is still the mascot I don't know, and I don't need to know - if they changed mascot for Rio, it'll turn-up as clearance tat in about 18 months time!

He certainly seems to have been designed by the same person who did the Olympic mascots, but because he's an actual lion-thing, rather than the WTF-things of London2012, he looks OK, a bit Art Deco - stylistically - but eminently more bearable than the other two!

The thing is - let's be honest - these mascots are now designed first-and-foremost to be worn as a foam-suit by some poor sweating, dehydrated, jobbing-actor who can barely see where he/she's going, while taking muttered instructions from someone with a clipboard and an earpiece!

4 is for "On the fourth day of Chrissssstmaaas...."

A fourth snowman!

So he'd got the measure of it by now - he hopes? The quirk of his 'True Love' in sending a snowman was writ large, she was clearly going to send 12, it was 'quirk' all right - on another level!

They got the unloading down to 14 minutes...plenty of time for a coffee and bit of small-talk with Gina . . . didn't I mention the driver was called Gina? She was.

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Chalkware snowmen are an old favourite of mine, and I have more in storage, we may even have looked at them on the blog, until a few years ago I would have said "you can still get these" meaning they were still contemporary, I now think they are getting thin on the ground and if you are lucky enough to find mint ones in a bakers they are probably old stock, not replacement stock?

A is for Assorted . . .

. . . key-rings, or fobs, or chains, or charms, whatever your chosen term for them is!

You may remember back in the summer we had a post on insects, with the snail cropped-out of this collective-shot, well; here are all of them.

Again (see yesterday's comment on Doric) a bulk-buy - I'm a tight-arse on a low income - of reduced stock; three of them were unmarked and as I said earlier in the year - may turn-out to be from a more recognised range of toys, just 'converted' to key-rings with a screw-eye.

The forth is branded to (and if you'd told me back at the start of the blog I'd have been adding it to the tag list I wouldn't have believed you!) Fizzy Moon! A devil-bear; I should have got him into the Halloween posts? Why didn't I? Fuckwitt!

3 is for "On the Third Day of Chrissssstmaaas, His True Love Sent to Hiiiiiiimmm...."

[Are you ahead of me here?] Another Snowman!

Ok, ok...three snowmen is not excessive and they can now have proper conversations, in the meantime the driver and him got the unloading down to 15 minutes so the driver had time for the offered coffee and bit of a chat - while the snowmen got acquainted!

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As yesterday! Different poses!