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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.
Showing posts with label Fina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fina. Show all posts

Sunday, January 7, 2024

C is for Coining-it!

I was quite surprised to see these on Mercator Trading's stand earlier in the year, as I didn't remember them at all, and we had all sorts of coin and badge-albums when we were kids, and I well remember Mum sending-off for the missing ones at the end of the promotion, to fill the gaps, but the reason I didn't recognise them, is because they are from 1993, not the 1960/70's!

Fina's petrol stations, what was I doing in 1993? Commuting to Uni' on the trains, and suffering some of the last IRA bomb-threats, along with all the usual points/signal/crew failures, not thinking about petrol!
 
There's one missing and at only fifteen, a lot easier to collect than some of those previous century sets, which went to double or triple gate-fold! Get's Fina in the Tag-list, box-ticked!
 
It was California! I didn't follow it at all!