We have reached the point where more than
half the leaves still on the trees becomes more than half the leaves on the
ground, and the switching between rain and frost over this weekend will do for
autumn and it'll be winter for a while.
I shot the 1st picture above on a trip to
Basingrad to pick-up stollen-bites from Lidl
last Thursday! They are much nicer than stollen-loaf or stollen-roll both of which
are too bready and too marzipany for me, but Lidl's stollen-bites are biscuity
yet soft . . . like little spiced rock-cakes; excellent. Four packs in the
stash . . . well three-and-a-bit packs, I opened one on the way home!
I popped into the charity shops while I was
walking through town and picked this up for 45p! It's by 4D Master who made the puzzle Tiger (tank) we looked at over seven years ago (link), and this is really quite exquisite; 22 pre-decorated
pieces which have to be assembled.
Undergoing construction, it was relatively
easy for me but then I'm over the hill; it should be; a younger person would
get more fun from it, but the finished product is worth the effort whatever
your skill level.
Normally I wouldn't buy stuff like this and
they haven't featured in The Works as far as I know (as the tanks did), but
when it's in a Charity shop for pennies; it's a must and something different
for the Blog.
A very fine model of a Red Kangaroo,
certainly giving Mr. William Britains'
old grey model a run for its money, both heads turn and while the Joey can be
removed you only have his upper-half and a square, peg hole scar in Mum's
pouch.
Without the packaging I'm assuming (again!)
it's supposed to be a red kangaroo as . . . err . . . it's not grey! But I know
there are lots of kangaroos, including Giant ones, while nobody's explained
Wallabies to me, are they somehow different in shape; or just small kangaroos?
And if they are just small kangaroos, how
come the giant kangaroo hasn't got its own name like 'wallaby', but suggesting
largeness as opposed to smallness . . . this stuff should keep you awake at
night; we've put men on the moon, but the jumping-mice are all mix-named!
He's definitely a giant, red or not! A few
I had near to hand as a comparison, obviously the larger you get the better the
detail and the more accurate the sculpt ought to be (tell that to Cherilea's UN
forces!), and the puzzle joins don't detract too much from the whole; although
the camera-flash helped with this shot - compare with the four-angle above...
As I was putting away the previous lot I
remembered I had more Hong Kong produced generics, so a panic shot, posed on
the bottom of the box ensued!
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