he's (in order) lost the trust of
Parliament, The Scots, his majority, control over Brwreakshit, the sympathy of
the Lords, 24, 25, 26 MP's and his brother, while the awful; tediously awful
Reese Mogg has given the Election it's poster, lounging on the front bench like
a Parisian whore posing for Lautrec! Or a Berlin whore posing for Schiler . . .
ooooh-no, that though put's your teeth on edge!
You can't make this shit up and the rest of
the world is wondering what the hell happened to the Bri . . . English! The
idea we can start trade talks with the likes of Nigeria or Pakistan, Canada or
Argentina with any degree of confidence now, should be swiftly forgotten, we
have shown the world we are a spent force. With our 18 or 19 little boats
letting the Iranians take our tankers!
And remember, even if Boris were to go - I
mean GO - today or tomorrow, he'll still get a half-pension for life - courtesy
of your tax money, as Maybe-Maybe Not will now be getting hers, as Cam'moron
and Brown-trousers, even B.Liar are already in-receipt of theirs!
"Rather
be dead in a ditch"? I can help you with that Mr Jonnson, you
over-dramatic, over-privileged, under-developed, arrogant, needy, hysterical
cockwomble!
Still, there's always toy fairs, and this
weekend all the main promoters seem to be kicking-off their autumn programs, so
enjoy the spectacle in Westminster for the Comedy
Toff's Show it is, and console yourself with old toys . . .
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Toy Fairs
Saturday 7th September 2019
Beconsfield - Toy & Train Fairs
(Peter Levinson)
Beconsfield School, Wattleton Road,
Buckinghamshire, HP9 1SJ
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01282 051 518 (Peter or Diane)
10:30 - 14:30hrs
Admission charge unknown
Brecon - Chris Dyer Fairs
Market hall, Town Centre, Brecon, Powys,
Wales, LD3 7LG
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £2
Didcot
- Retro
Ronnie
Civic Hall, Britwell Road, Didcot, OX11 7JN
Web - www.retroronnie.com
Mob. I - 07708 385 061
Mob. II - 07900 266 427
Hours unknown
Admission unknown
Look out for falling towers, exploding
transformers and collapsing scafolding, please report any bodies to the
authorities!
Penrith - Brian Tattersall -
Penrith Toy Fair
Newbiggin Village Hall, Stianton, Penrith,
Cumbria, CA11 0HT
Internet presence unknown
Mob. - 07498 711 514
10:00-15:30hrs
Admission charge unknown
New Show
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Sunday 8th September 2019
Ashington - David Parsons - Toy
& Train Collectors Fair
Ashington Community Centre, Foster Lane,
Ashington, West Sussex, RH20 3PG
Web. - www.modelcarmart.co.uk
eMail - modelcarmart@gmail.com
Tel. - 01424 846 676 (Pete)
Mob. - 07742 609 865 (David)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Adults £1.50, concessions £1
Buxton - Barry Potter / BP Fairs
The Octagon
Hall, The Pavilion Gardens, St. Johns Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6XN
Web. - www.bpfairs.com
Tel. - 01604
846 688
Mob. - 07966
527 177
10:30-15:00hrs
Admission
£3.00 [down from £3.50p] (early-bird £6, from 08:00hrs), OAP's £2.50p [down
from £3.00], Children £1
[Note: admission-price reductions]
Chartham - SRP Toy Fairs
Station Road, Chartham, Kent, ME13 7RA
Web. - http://srptoyfairs1.co.uk/
eMail - srptoys1@hotmail.co.uk
Mob. - 07739 998 012 (Paula or Gerry)
10:00 - 14:00hrs
Admission charge unknown
Kidderminster - Tony Oaks Toy Fairs
Guilt Edge Leisure Centre, Zortech Avenue,
Kidderminster, Worcestershire, DY11 7DY
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01270 652 773
Mob. - 07825 631 323
10:30 - 14:00hrs
Admission £1.50p
Free parking
Kirkby-in-Ashfield - Townsend
Toy & Train Fairs (Malcolm Townsend)
Festival
Hall, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 7DJ
Web. - www.tttf.co.uk
Mob. - 07951
072 790
10:00 -
14:00hrs
Admission fee unknown, aaccompanied under-16's free
Free
parking, refreshments
St.
Ives - J&J
Fairs (J&J Webb)
'One Leisure' St. Ives, Burgess Hall Events
& Conference Centre, Westwood Road, St. Ives, Cambridgeshire, PE27 6WU
Web. - www.j-jwebbtoyfairs.com
eMail - jandjfairs@virginmedia.com
Tel. - 01522 880 383
10:00 - 14:30hrs
Admission - Adult £3.00p, seniors £2.50,
1st child £2.00p
Where the cats and the sacks and the wives
came from, not Cornwall!
Swindon - Retro Ronnie
Swindon Town Football Club, County Ground,
Swindon, Wiltshire, SN1 2ED
Web - www.retroronnie.com
Mob. I - 07708 385 061
Mob. II - 07900 266 427
Hours unknown
Admission charge unknown
Wimborn - David Rees
Queen
Elizabeth's Leisure Centre (Sports Hall), Blandford Raod, Wimborne Minster,
Dorset BH21 4DT
Internet presence unknown
Tel. - 01202
590 158
10:15 - 14:30hrs
Admission charge unknown
Free parking
and refreshments
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Tuesday 10th September 2019
Elsecar - Newcomen Fairs Ltd. -
36th Elsecar Toy & Train Fair (evening fair)
Elsecar Heritage Centre, Elsecar, Nr.
Barnsley, South Yorkshire, S74 8HJ
Web. - www.newcomenfairs.co.uk
eMail - sales@newcomenfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01226 744 425
19:00 - 21:00hrs
Admission £1.50p, children 50p
Hook - Steven Clements Fairs -
Hook Evening Fair
Hook Community Centre, Hook, Hampshire,
RG27 9NN
Tel. - 01380 725 322
Mob. - 07958 101 891
eMail: clementfairs@aol.com
18:30 - 21:30hrs
Admission £1
Free parking
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Thursday 12th September 2019
Theydon
Bois - Joe
Lock Fairs (evening fair)
Village Hall, Coppice Row, Theydon Bois,
Essex, CM16 7ER
Internet presence unknown
Mob. - 07866 641 215
19:00-21:00hrs
Admission £1
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Auctions
Saturday 7th September 2019
Elstree - Excalibur
Auctions (day 2 of a 2-day auction, day 1: yesterday; Friday)
The Village
Hotel, Elstree, Hertfordshire, WD6 3SB (venue)
Chiltern
Business Centre, Woodside Road, Amersham, Buckinghamshire, HP6 6AA (office)
Web. - www.excaliburauctions.com
eMail - enquiries@excaliburauctions.com
Tel. - 02036
330 913
Free Tea or
Coffee
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Other Events
From Thursday 5th (last) 'till Sunday
8th September 2019
Largs - LVF - Largs Viking
Festival
Various Locations, Largs, North Airshire,
Scotland
Web. - www.largsvikingfestival.org
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Friday 6th (today) - Sunday 8th
September 2019
Southport - Local Authority / Tourist
Board - Southport Air Show
Southport Seafront, Southport, Merseyside,
Cheshire
Web. - www.visitsouthport.com
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Sunday 8th September 2019
Cardiff
- Film & Comic Con
Motorpoint Arena, Cardiff, Wales
London - (Central) - Hugglets
Teddy Bear Fair
Kensington Town Hall, Hornton Street,
London, W8 7NX
Web. - https://hugglets.com/tf19/
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Overseas Events
Reminder - Friday 6th (today) and Saturday
7th September 2019
Bornheim (Germany) - Antico Mondo (World Antiques) - Auction
Königstrasse 109, Bornheim, Köln, Germany
Web.
- www.anticomondo.de
Tel.
- ++0223 6961 894
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Saturday 7th September 2019
Joure (Netherlands) - E. Kramer - Die Cast Fair
Zalencentrum t' Haske, Joure, Holland
Tel. - ++0513 416 571
Langenthal (Switzerland) - Toy Fair
Pfarreisaal, Hasenmattstrasse 36,
Langenthal BE, Switzerland
Tel. - ++0799 371 544
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Sunday 8th September 2019
Bourgain
Jallieu (France)
- Alain Taiwan - Toy Fair
Salle Polyvalente, Bourgain Jallieu 38,
France
Tel. - ++0683 429 068
Brüchsal (Germany) - Dr. Rolf Theurer - Toy Fair
Burgercentrum, Bruchsal-39 SEAS, Germany
Tel. - ++07115 590 044
Fax. - ++07115 590 054
11:00-15:30hrs (local time)
Dublin
(ROI) - Chris
Dyer Fairs - Dublin Toy & Train Fair
The Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan Road, Dublin,
Eire
Web. - www.chrisdyerfairs.co.uk
Tel. - 01643 702 757
Mob. - 07966 694 579
10:30 - 15:00hrs
Admission £4
Just off N11 trunk road
Erpent-Namur (Belgium) - Risques Crépuscule - Toy Fair
Collage ND de la Paix, Erpent-Namur, Belgium
Tel. - ++081 400 149
Hoeselt (Belgium) - Hoeselt Treinclub - Train Show
Ter Kammen, Hoeselt, Belgium
Tel. - ++089 514 644
Milan (Italy) - Parc Expo - Toy Fair
Parco Exposizioni Novegro, Milano-Novegro,
Milano, Italy
Tel. - ++0702 000 022
Mönchengladbach (Germany) - J. Hörner - Toy Fair
Kaiser-Friedriche Halle, Mönchengladbach, Rheindahlen, Germany
Tel. - ++0210 351 133
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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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Other News
Herald Toys & Models
Barney has an end-of-summer sale on at themoment if you're looking for a bargain to occupy the closing-in evenings!
Lego
The Danish pirates were in the news again
this week (not many weeks when they aren't one way or another!) which was
interesting for the opposite spins it got in different papers. Some claiming it
was a return to performance; others saying it was a knock on profits. Basically
the overall profits are down due toi store investment, but the year-on-year earnings
and/or forecast is up on the 2017 blip.
I was more interested in the crux of the
matter which is that they have plans to open 160 Lego stores (eventually the entire oceans with have a permanent,
sun-faded but still technicolor scum of Lego-bricks!),
most of which are planned not for Europe, not for the USA, but (as with Hamley's) for China and India.
Trump, Boris and the other burkes are only
accelerating to a future which was always going to diminish us, and the fact
that it's mainly the underclass who are voting for them, ain't going to help
the underclass!
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Received with Thanks
You already know about the information and
imagery which came from Chris Smith and Andy B earlier in the week as I've Blogged
it! But Andy has sent more for the A-Z page (whenever I get that done!) or a
future visit/follow-up - and there's a bit in the comments [on that post] re.
extra listings of the 'whole' set.
I received some fascinating information
from Jonathan Buss which I will edit into an article, or take straight to an
A-Z entry.
And I forgot to do RwT last week, so have
also to thank Brian Berke, Dougal Hare and Peter Evans for info/images sent
previous to this week.
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H is for How They Come In
Only a few pieces this week, a pound-bag
from British Heart Foundation with
interesting knock-off Go-Go Crazy Bones,
but these more figural, or super-deform and recognisable Disney charterers. I
also picked-up a 50p bag of bits from Blue
Cross which included some Polly-Pocket
type micro-doll's furniture, an interesting mushroom and some kinder (or
similar) Disney egg premiums of (I think) Aladdin
or Beauty &t' Beast?
The best of the Go-Go clone-a-likes; it's a
Star-Wars-Angry-Birds-Self-Referential-Up-Its-Own-Arse-Twice-Andy-Warhol's-Pop-Culture-Eating-Itself-Super-Deform-Ersatz-GoGo-Crazy-Bone-Rip-Off-
Disney-Pixar-Toy-Story-Armymen Army Man! I think he's saluting?
Is there a box left un-ticked there? I'm
only upset that it's not part of a set of 12 with matching Germans in grey!!!
I also picked this up (another 50p!) in . .
. Cancer Research - I think; hoping
it would help ID some of the more esoteric PVC shite which comes-in in mixed
lots. Sadly, I don't think it will be that useful, but it may ID the odd figure
from time to time, once I've had a read.
The trouble is - it starts with the premise
that the reader already has the Manga
in front of them and is needing a back-story or thumbnail history of a specific
character, who they already know the name of.
To that end it only illustrates a few of
them, so while there is stuff in the text which will help ID figures (split-colour
gown, robe with such-and-such on it &etc), and about 1-in-6 are
illustrated, it's really for fans of Manga
comics, rather than an idiot toy-collector, but it will stay, for its limited
use. It will - of course - give me the background to characters who I can ID
elsewhere . . . like on any packaging the come with - my Dragon Ballz sets!
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Links
Following the Hamley's Asian expansion some
may see this as a very shrewd-move, the Irish will have a lot of brand-familiarity,
but, if you want to be a Toy Soldier . . . FAO Schwarz!
BMC Armywomen - Gathering momentum!...
... and here...
...and here (pop-ups).
More on Yoga-joes, which saves me having to
buy some - they're not cheap!
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Something Different
Shot these two yesterday down at the pond,
the Red Admiral has a hint of the blue scallops you get round the edges of
Tortoiseshell's wings, revealing a genetic link between the two 'senior'
butterflies.
While I'd shot several good pictures of the
red dragonflies in the garden a couple of days before which I mean to Blog
separately!
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