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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 08:57 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
Well Bobby once spent Christmas on the beach…back when he was in Australia!
It was ok though because people were going around selling Santa hats for people to buy and feel more Christmassy.
I've spent more than a few Crimbos in the very warm shade of palm trees at the beach Ricky
I still watch freezing cold Victorian street urchins running around on screen saying "Gov'nah" while eating my chilled uni and wasabi bites and sipping local beer though
I've seen some kids dressed up at Halloween in places you'd never expect to
But, back to Blighty now and mustn't grumble, not I can drink hot wine or wider and eat pork pies without having to worry about maggots growing in them - oh! And a Doctor Who special on the day too
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:04 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
I've spent more than a few Crimbos in the very warm shade of palm trees at the beach Ricky
I still watch freezing cold Victorian street urchins running around on screen saying "Gov'nah" while eating my chilled uni and wasabi bites and sipping local beer though
I've seen some kids dressed up at Halloween in places you'd never expect to
But, back to Blighty now and mustn't grumble, not I can drink hot wine or wider and eat pork pies without having to worry about maggots growing in them - oh! And a Doctor Who special on the day too
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Speaking of Doctor Who, I picked up some old Target novelisations from a vintage shop in York. They sold all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff there.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:09 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
Speaking of Doctor Who, I picked up some old Target novelisations from a vintage shop in York. They sold all kinds of weird and wonderful stuff there.
Was it a vintage shop in the Victorian time slip? Because they might have some of that The Other Doctor stuff starring the voice of Bob The Builder Ricky
Bobby would have loved to have gotten some antique stuff from that Doctor
Or was it a modern vintage shop set nowadays which has stuff from not too long ago but still manages to sell it as if it's new?
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:12 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
Was it a vintage shop in the Victorian time slip? Because they might have some of that The Other Doctor stuff starring the voice of Bob The Builder Ricky
Bobby would have loved to have gotten some antique stuff from that Doctor
Or was it a modern vintage shop set nowadays which has stuff from not too long ago but still manages to sell it as if it's new?
It’s kind of a cross between the two and yet neither of them.
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:20 PM)
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I'll hold
https://postimg.cc/c6cvbWj2
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:28 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
https://postimg.cc/c6cvbWj2
He was waiting for a new home.
I'm pretty sure coconuts are racist Ricky
Something about Suella Braverman and Richi Sunak being called them, or not called them, or something.
You should probably not let anyone see it or you'll be branded a Jim Davidson fan (Or Something).
…That all said you could just pretend it's a Gollywog that's a bit different and people will be fine with it. I mean who doesn't like Robinson's marmalades and jams?
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:35 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
I'm pretty sure coconuts are racist Ricky
Something about Suella Braverman and Richi Sunak being called them, or not called them, or something.
You should probably not let anyone see it or you'll be branded a Jim Davidson fan (Or Something).
…That all said you could just pretend it's a Gollywog that's a bit different and people will be fine with it. I mean who doesn't like Robinson's marmalades and jams?
Well if you look at the tag, it says ‘vintage golly’ and he’s 20 odd pounds. Maybe I should have bought him.
There’s a small museum in the upstairs of a collectibles shop in Blackpool. It’s got all sorts of memorabilia. It used to have a glass cabinet filled with Robertsons Golly stuff, but when me and Bobby last visited Blackpool we had a look upstairs in that shop and the Golly collection had gone. We saw it hidden away in the workshop bit out of eyeshot with a sign on saying ‘display cabinet for sale’. -
∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:41 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
Well if you look at the tag, it says ‘vintage golly’ and he’s 20 odd pounds. Maybe I should have bought him.
There’s a small museum in the upstairs of a collectibles shop in Blackpool. It’s got all sorts of memorabilia. It used to have a glass cabinet filled with Robertsons Golly stuff, but when me and Bobby last visited Blackpool we had a look upstairs in that shop and the Golly collection had gone. We saw it hidden away in the workshop bit out of eyeshot with a sign on saying ‘display cabinet for sale’.
Somebody must have bought all the Gollywogs then Ricky and the cabinet wasn't much of an eyecatcher without them
Is that a Ghostbusters annual beneath your coconutwog (Sorry about the coconut thing, either the saying it or the not (
) )?
It looks fairly modern judging from the colour scheme used
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:49 PM)
∂³∑x² said...
Somebody must have bought all the Gollywogs then Ricky and the cabinet wasn't much of an eyecatcher without them
Is that a Ghostbusters annual beneath your coconutwog (Sorry about the coconut thing, either the saying it or the not (
) )?
It looks fairly modern judging from the colour scheme used
No. The cabinet still had all of the Robertsons Gollywog memorabilia still in! That was the weird thing. It had all sorts in like badges, plates, figurines etc…
Oh yeah it might have been, it looks like a ghostbusters action figure to me. I only noticed the doll. It had a bit of everything in, some old stuff, some not as old…a real bric-a-brac of an Aladdins cave of a shop.
It had a battered old Whizzer and Chips annual, a collection of old 70s UK Marvel comics, a couple of 70s signs from a shop…don’t know what shop.
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:54 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
No. The cabinet still had all of the Robertsons Gollywog memorabilia still in! That was the weird thing. It had all sorts in like badges, plates, figurines etc…
Oh yeah it might have been, it looks like a ghostbusters action figure to me. I only noticed the doll. It had a bit of everything in, some old stuff, some not as old…a real bric-a-brac of an Aladdins cave of a shop.
It had a battered old Whizzer and Chips annual, a collection of old 70s UK Marvel comics, a couple of 70s signs from a shop…don’t know what shop.
Do you want to see what it looked like from the outside?
If you have a picture of it from outside that would be swell Ricky
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:55 PM)
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If you have a picture of it from outside that would be swell Ricky
Ok. By the way the GB thing looks like a dolly on inspection. I edited my post to say that but you might have missed that. I’ll get the picture but I need to do it with my phone, hold on… -
∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 09:58 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
Ok. By the way the GB thing looks like a dolly on inspection. I edited my post to say that but you might have missed that. I’ll get the picture but I need to do it with my phone, hold on…
It does look a bit like an action figure now that you mention it Ricky
I'm guessing Egon but it would be a newer set of GBers since they've done that now (Apparently!).
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 10:03 PM)
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It does look a bit like an action figure now that you mention it Ricky
I'm guessing Egon but it would be a newer set of GBers since they've done that now (Apparently!).
https://postimg.cc/pyXtZtts
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∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 10:11 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
https://postimg.cc/pyXtZtts
There’s another picture of a better look at the window stock, but you can see Bobby and I reflected in the window in that one, so I’m not showing that.
Yeah best not let people here see you and Bobby or else they'll be coming out with all sorts of weird talk Ricky
That can of tomato soup in the window doesn't look very vintage to me. Was that just the window dresser's lunch which they left out for a bit?
Anyways, shop looks great. Nice bit of creepy and a nice bit of happy - just like a vintage shop should be
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Ricky Grant — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 10:15 PM)
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Yeah best not let people here see you and Bobby or else they'll be coming out with all sorts of weird talk Ricky
That can of tomato soup in the window doesn't look very vintage to me. Was that just the window dresser's lunch which they left out for a bit?
Anyways, shop looks great. Nice bit of creepy and a nice bit of happy - just like a vintage shop should be
I’m not really sure what that soup can is about to be honest. I didn’t notice it at the time. If I was still in York then I’d go back there tomorrow and have a look. I was focused on the Donald Duck toy…I wanted that but they were asking £55 for it. -
∂³∑x² — 1 year ago(July 24, 2024 10:22 PM)
Ricky Grant said...
I’m not really sure what that soup can is about to be honest. I didn’t notice it at the time. If I was still in York then I’d go back there tomorrow and have a look. I was focused on the Donald Duck toy…I wanted that but they were asking £55 for it.
Perhaps the window has a special weight mechanism in it and whatever was stolen from there was the exact weight of a can of tomato soup made by Heinz Ricky
To test that theory out you'd need to find the exact weight of the Donald Duck you like (Is it worth £55? I'm rubbish at these things) and quickly switcheroo the two and if no alarms go off you could easily just walk out the shop and nobody would be any the wiser
Obviously return it and tell them that their elaborate window security system is broken and you can prove it and that you are not a thief.
Have bobby film you do it too in case it turns sour before you can return it. Perhaps they have a better system overall and that soup can is one part of a much more sophisticated way of bypassing it
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