I
was walking up to the station the other day and a saw a piece of orange plastic
in the detritus building up in the rain-channel the local authority gave-up cleaning
as soon as they had installed it!
Picking
it up (I'm a right old pikey!) I recognised it to be a jumping-toy mechanism
and stuffed it in my pocket . . . for the spares box, you understand!
Only
to notice a rather mucky blob of green rubber a few days later in the same damp
leaf-pile, taking that home too - for a good wash with a toothbrush, it was
obvious they went together . . . probably thrown from a passing car by a
stroppy infant, or dropped by the occupant of a pram?
Thinking
maybe it was a Frogglet from the Clangers,
and possibly a freebie from one of these kids magazines, I put it to one side
intending to include it in one of the future Christmas novelty round-ups or a
[the] Clanger post (which has been in
Picasa for a while now!) after shooting off a few pictures for whenever; and
thought no more about it, for a week or three.
Then,
when I popped into The Entertainer in
Basingrad for my occasional look to see if there are any new rack-toys around,
or any developments in Star Wars or Micro Machines &etc., I found a
whole box of them! 50p each! You'd be mad not to (or less mad than me? Doh!),
so I bought one-each of the four I didn't have.
Because
we'll probably never return to them, and I quite like them - in my immaturity!
- I took too many photographs, so here are a couple more!
The blue one reminds
me of Plug from the Bash Street Kids!
Branded
to Henbrandt, and part of a
promotional, pocket-money, toy stack/display called Fun Time, they were alongside the usual segmented snakes, yo-yo's,
bouncy-balls and so on, all @ 50p per unit.
However,
when I went to pay for my four-for-two-quid Jump-up
Monsters (for that is what they are called on the receipt), the cashier
said "That's one-fifty sir",
says I "I think you'll find it
should be two, there's four here and they're fifty-pee each?", "No" replies the lad; "They are on offer, it's all three-for-a-pound
on that end", "Blimey"
says I, "I'll have another look"
. . .
.
. . returning moments later, to the same till, with three parachuting aliens,
each holding an umbrella - as an emergency 'shute - and a book to read on the
way down! The three also in Henbrandt
'cellophanes', a quid: bargain!
In
the meantime, I had found this further along the same footpath, but definitely
a pedestrian's loss as it was where the path is further from the road - maybe a
secretive baby is feeding stuff he wants to see on the Blog, to the Blog, by
'accident'!
It
too is branded to Henbrandt, and I
had seen them, a while ago (but can't remember where, as I never imagined I'd
need to know!) in larger bags of 10 or maybe 20 units for a couple- or few-quid
as bulk-buy, party favours.
[chant]
♪♫♪ Allll
to'getheeer'now - alltogethernow! ♪♫♪
♪♫♪ Allll
to'getheeer'now - alltogethernow! ♪♫♪
[up an octave]
♪♫♪ Allll
to'getheeer'now - alltogethernow! ♪♫♪
[shout]
♪♫♪ Aaalllllll
toooo'geethhh-eeerrrr NOW! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
[repeat until you're sick of it
in your head - earworm!]
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