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    http://www.bigboystoysmuseum.co.uk

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    Tiverton, Devon
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    Reading, Science Fiction, Collecting toys, Trains, Planes, Fairground toys, Farm Toys and GWR memorabilia. Plastic kit building, History, Travel, Music, Playing guitar...

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    John

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  1. Hi! I was quite active on here a few years ago, but after lockdown, I've been spending all of my time trying to rebuild my business. Now I've decided to retire and thought I'd see what is going on around here. Since I was last here, Mrs Bigbear has had loads of joints replaced in her body - 2 hips, 2 knees, two vertebrae - plus a lot of other straightening and unbunging operations, so she's now at least got scrap value! She is currently nursing a broken ankle, after taking up pilates... I fell out of the loft a while back and broke a load of ribs and messed up my legs, etc., but am largely back to what passes for normal. Otherwise, just the years are rolling past far too fast for my liking! As a result of all this excitement, the work on restoring our 1941 Allis B has stalled completely, although carpet farming has gone on apace. As Britains aren't producing many models of interest to me these days, I've been buying some of their older, pre-millenium toys and thoroughly enjoying myself! After a lot of nagging from the family, I've been streamlining my other hobbies too, but still collect dinosaurs, Doctor Who toys, steam engines and anything to do with the original GWR. The kids still despair of me and my collecting! That's about it! What's occurring? John P (bigbear)
  2. I have only just started to collect the old Corgi Toys, as Britains isn't producing much to interest me. My collection is getting quite varied now, with things that I would never have looked at if Britains were still making older models. Ah well, times change, I suppose...
  3. I've about 6 of these old spot pigs, plus saddleback, black versions and white versions, all in two poses, which I bought as a job lot some years ago. I''ve also just one of the 'head erect' sheep, which came in a gift set. Been trying to find more sheep varieties, but nothing found except for the old and new versions of the "standard" models. PS Just seen the post by Tractorman314... Those are they! :-) That'll teach me to skip to the end of a thread...
  4. Hope this goes into the right place! I've just bought a Corgi Tractor/Trailer set, No. 60030, the green DB and tipping trailer, in 'dirty' finish. Does anybody know if this has a story to it, please? Was it a special for a company, etc.? Where DB tractors ever really produced in green?
  5. Yup, A Happy Christmas to all! May 2018 be as bright as a field of untrodden snow and your road be as straight as a well ploughed furrow!
  6. AMAZON! Grrrrr! Ordered a Leonard Cohen box set for the wife, (honest!), at £23.00... Post Office destroyed it and didn't even try to deliver to me, but sent back to Amazon as 'crushed in transit'. Amazon arrange replacement, I download MP3 version for her to listen to while awaiting new CDs and all was well. Last night, got an email from Amazon saying that 'my' return was with them, but as I had downloaded the MP3s, they would charge me £43.00 for the privelige! B*st*rds! After a long chat on their helpline, they agreed to refund it to me, but asked me to please not send back items that I've already downloaded a version of in future. !!! Fur flew and a few words were exchanged, as I explained that I had never received the CDs, let alone returned them and it was all THEIR fault that this had happened. They then grudgingly admitted that it might be their problem and hopefully, I will now receive a refund and the CDs I originally ordered... Watch this space.
  7. Not kidding! I'd be stuck in there after 2 minutes!
  8. Grrr... It looked as if a woman at work was being bullied by a senior person in her department, so I asked if she was alright, explained why I asked and when she said all was well, left it at that. NOW I've been called to the big chief, told to mind my own business in future and to keep any social content out of my dealings with other staff. Why? Because the person doing the bullying got to hear that I had asked if the woman was OK and thought I was overstepping the mark by checking on her. Considering the department bully never heard my remark in the first place, I feel very annoyed! Sad thing is that I am unable to take it further without rocking the boat for the woman originally being bullied too... Grrrrrrr!
  9. Too wet to do anything outside, so as I'm supposed to be on holiday this week, Mrs. Bigbear asked if I could go up to her school and do a few jobs... Installed her 2nd. hand washing machine, turned it on for a test run and found that the plate behind the soap tray is cracked right across. How did I discover this? By running a test wash and watching the water literally squirt out over the floor! Washing mashine outside by the bins, floor mopped and other jobs finished. Now just got to wait for the children to go home and I can give my dear mrs. a lift home too. Her car failed the MOT two days ago... What a fantastic holiday this is, I hope there's something nice for tea! Do you think I dare ask what?
  10. Getting the house ready for Christmas - almost finished now! Happy Christmas everybody!!!
  11. This morning I went out to start hanging the Christmas lights around our village with a gang of other lunatics, er, like minded people. You wouldn't believe the number of people who asked, "Are you putting up the lights, then?"! Second favourite comment was, "What do you want to put them up in October for?"... Do they not realise that it only gets done on Sundays, when we are all free and the official 'switch on' is in the first week of December! I've never seen a Christmas Lights Fairy in these parts... As for the traffic... The very gobby lady who indicated to turn left, to get past our traffic control person, then cancelled her indicator and drove very fast through our efforts to avoid a short detour! If I ever see her again... Big Mitsubishi pickup! Grrr... Also Grrr.... was the older driver of a 4x4, who thought it was OK to ignore the stop signal and edge through bit by bit as people got out of the way, only to meet the oncoming traffic who were green lighted anyway. What is wrong with these people? On the other hand, my arch-enemies, the lycra clad cycling brigade were happy, jovial and waited as long as it took for us to sling a catenary wire over the road on a nasty bend. Thanks to them - and I NEVER thought I'd be saying THAT!!!
  12. I'm in the middle of a 24 hour blood pressure check. What a faff! Woke me up every hour through the night, I can't take a shower, every 30 mins I'm supposed to sit quietly while the machine does its stuff, pipes all over the place, getting caught up in (what remains of) my muscles... I hope it's worth it! It seems I may have 'white coat syndrome'... Basically nervous of doctors. Who wouldn't be?
  13. Sitting indoors, covered in cats who think I'm a hot water bottle! I'm off with a cold which just won't go away.... Yes, Mandy, I've had all of the comments about 'manflu' I ever want to hear, thanks! So, just spending time staring out at the rain and messing about on't'internet. Am I bored? OH,yes!
  14. Having sown grass seed into the new playing field at my wife's school a while ago, it is now 6 inches + long and needed a cut. The contractor who usually does it wouldn't do it as it was the first cut and "There might be stones that would damage my mower" he says... Mrs. Bigbear - ever one for a good idea - says to me, "You can mow it"... "I haven't an industrial mower", says I... "Never mind, you've nothing else you wanted to do" says she... So, after weighing up the pros and cons, I mowed a quarter of an acre with a Qualcast electric mower! It looks great, with neat lines and everything, but I'm totally knoackered! I've now convinced her to buy a ride-on mower, so in future I can have a bit of fun while being her new 'Mower Man'! Gotta love wives, haven't you?
  15. Friday: Erected marquee for all day music concert in the yard at Coldharbour Mill, Uffculme, Devon. (Worked all day at my 'proper' work, then 4 - 10 at the mill). Saturday: 7.30 a.m. Welcome Military re-enactors, tractor owners, (a good turnout considering the South Molton Show was on at the same time!), and set up stage lighting and p.a. system in time for first band onstage at 10 a.m.... stage manage and sound mix all day... After last band finished, at 10 p.m., dismantle and remove p.a. system. Sunday: Up early to strike down the marquee and lighting rig. Store it all away. In the afternoon, go to my wife's business to finish off the jobs there ready for her to fully open the doors to the public today! Off to bed at 1130 p.m. after stopping the cat fight in the road outside... Now: Catching up with emails, etc., before going back to 'proper' work... What did YOU do over the weekend? :laugh: :laugh:
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