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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.

Thursday, January 18, 2018

P is for Picasa-Clearer . . . Taylor and Barrett Rickshaw with Chinese 'Coolie'

I use the inverted commas as I believe the term is now considered derogatory, at least by some, but that was its title/description back in the day, it was also sold with a Zulu 'cab-driver'!

Another bit of hollow-cast metal, again from Adrian (thank you Mr. Little), and an unusual piece; not re-issued in plastic, either, I believe, so you either have a lead one or no-one, or look at the pretty pictures above! Actually they're not the best images I've done, but they give a flavour of the thing!

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