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My main collections are 80s Cabbage Patch Kids, vintage Pound Puppies (Hornby, but have ones from other countries too), and recollected childhood Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake, and Charmkins. Have collected then downsized G1 MLP, and still have my childhood ones and merchandise.
Have also collected more vintage SSC Orange Blossom merchandise. And I collect vintage (mainly 80s, some 70s) Snoopy stationary and anything I can find in charity shops. Still have my Sylvanians but was a teen when they came out.

I would love to collect soft toy Care Bears, have resold or traded lots, but wanted to keep them, and always wanted a Puffalump. The cat or cow probably. Have resold lots of 80s toys on Ebay, as I can't collect everything, but still hung onto them for a while just as I never had them as a child. So have sold Wuzzles, Care Bears, and lots of others, got 3 Popples that I will have to put on Ebay at some stage, but I haven't room or money to keep anything.

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That's great getting boxed ones. Good haul. I collect vintage Pound Puppies. My website hasn't been active for years that had them on, have them from several countries. One day when life isn't so manic, I'll put all the info I have collected about them online again.
I have about 4 big boxes of PP, have a few Pound Pur-rr-ees  too (or however you spell it!) too, that accidentally joined me, but I don't actively collect anything cat related. I collect the Hornby merchandise too. I don't collect anything to do with the Hanna-Barbera cartoon though. I get mine through charity shops, and have through trades in the past. I still have my childhood pup too, a black Newborn called Huckle.

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Off Topic / Re: English Obsession
« on: October 20, 2015, 10:54:41 AM »
Don't forget regional English cultures, classics such as 'Last of the Summer Wine' which ran for decades about a group of Yorkshire pensioners and their (occasionally rather wacky) exploits in the Yorkshire Dales. Only finished a few years ago, shows a pace of life very different to the cities!

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Off Topic / Re: Need recommendations for treats from London!
« on: October 16, 2015, 10:46:00 AM »
Wow, thanks aluke for the links, those were actually super helpful! And they all look gluten free! Yes! I actually have never seen anything Cadbury except the cream filled Easter eggs, which I'm not a big fan off. Those candies sound super yummy!

Remember the Cadbury's Cream Eggs sold in America are different to the UK version, although now Cadburys has been taken over by an American company they've changed the choc it;s made from, not Dairy Milk any more, which has cased great outrage over here. they're as culturally important over here as Red London buses or football!

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The Dollhouse / Re: Sites for modern Barbie identification
« on: July 01, 2015, 09:41:17 AM »
http://kattisdolls.net/KDold/index.html

I love this site as I learned a lot from it.
This is how I've ID'd most of my Black Barbies/Christie types.
Well done on finding the identity of yours!

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Off Topic / Re: Furniture rehab?
« on: May 25, 2015, 09:17:30 AM »
Haven't got pics, but the furniture I've bought recently is all second-hand solid wood stuff. I use spray paints usually, with doors open, sanded a bit first so there is some grip, and don't like perfection, I like knocks and scratches to show that it has some history. I like bare wood but wax it instead of varnishing it, find it quicker and less messy, and the bugs don't stick to it in the summer when drying!
So far in the last few years, sprayed a small table antique white, and got another old cupboard that had 70 years of paint build up dipped, to its natural brushed pine original state. Painted most of a low bookcase, leaving the shelves, resprayed some bashed up drawer fronts and cupboard doors pistachio green, and left the rest of a 1950s kitchen cupboard whiteish, filled in cracks in the top, put a bit of sticky backed plastic to cover up the milliput filler, and made a pieced patchwork cover. My bedside drawers were cheap orangey pine varnished self-assembly things I got from work when it moved buildings, I spray painted all but the top and drawer handles antique white, and sanded and waxed the top and handles. Total transformation, and you can't tell that one was damaged by a teenager having a meltdown!
I have more furniture to paint, (tall orangey varnished charity shop bookcase, a pine cupboard, and a chest of drawers, but my current flat isn't the easiest place to spray or paint much stuff) and want some nice china handles in random designs for a couple of cupboards but those are expensive.  I don't paint antique stuff, and I love old wood, but orangey pine I hate, and the older pieces stand out more and the room looks bigger when the others are painted in similar colours to the walls...

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Happy Resurrection day!
Just spent it with visitors, Christian friends who I haven't seen for 10 years came up to visit, and we went to the eve service at church, best RD I've had in years!

Here's an ancient song I haven't sung for years, but sums up the reason why Christians celebrate Resurrection Sunday...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrQiLEO4D5s


And here's another one, this is why I have been able to keep going this year, despite life collapsing around me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flStZiy-Tmg

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Off Topic / Re: British? English? Scottish? Irish?
« on: March 31, 2015, 03:03:00 PM »
I would NEVER call myself British, I'm English, although my ancestry dates back from probably beyond the Romano-British tribes of the Iron Age, that's about the most British I'd claim to be!
The British government tend to emphasise Britishness, as not to insult or alienate people from more recent immigrant cultures, but I don't have anything to do with Scottish or Welsh culture, and I wish England had it's own parliament and that Scottish and Welsh (and Northern Irish) MPs couldn't vote on issues that affect England, when English MPs can't vote in the Scottish parliament or Welsh Assembly!
We don't have a National Costume unlike the others, and apart from the English football team (hate football so no interest in it!), being English often gets a bad press, as our St George's flag (when not used for football), gets hijacked for political purposes by loony racist groups on protest marches.

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Oh! I'll make sure I find her an outfit that means she can dance freely! Thanks for the info!

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Wow! That was quick! Thanks, yes, that must be her. Will try and tame her hair slightly. Now looking at internet pics of what she originally looked like, I'm more fond of her now, although her squashy middle still is rather unnerving!

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The Dollhouse / Help please! Can you ID rather odd Barbie/Christie?
« on: March 30, 2015, 09:28:37 AM »
Found a nakey black Barbie/Christie (sorry, don't know her name) in a charity shop yesterday, have put various words in Google and haven't found a pic!
She's got 2 peculiar features, her usual long hair spins round (well, her scalp really!) to change to what looks like a long blue mullet, (well, at the front at least!) and her stomach is squishy! (which scared me greatly, nearly dropped her when in the shop!). Can't post a pic, but she's fairly dark skinned with the 1999 Mattel body, can't read what's on back of head as unclear!

Thanks anyone!

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Off Topic / Re: Show/list your other toy collections!
« on: February 17, 2015, 01:45:31 PM »
Black baby and child dolls with proper 'afro' features
Black fashion dolls (charity shop finds)
Vintage Cabbage Patch Kids
Japanese and Maori Dolls
Vintage Pound Puppies
Vintage PVC Kiwi Folk
Vintage MLP
 (Still have childhood/teen collections such as Lego, replacement Strawberry Shortcake and Care Bears, and my Sylvanians, Sindy, Action Man, and other random 70s/80s toys, and Beanie Babies.
Pound Puppies, Dolls, and Cabbage Patch Kids are my main toy collections.

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Off Topic / Re: Animals of farthing wood?
« on: February 10, 2015, 10:45:30 AM »
Apart from the low music budget meant that it was the same background music for 'Animals Happily Trotting Along a Country Lane' and 'Small Cute Animal Facing Immediate Deadly Danger'. The traumatic baby mice incident springs to mind... Traumatised me, anyway...

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Off Topic / Re: Animals of farthing wood?
« on: February 09, 2015, 10:33:32 PM »
'Once a weasel, always a weasel' was one of my catchphrases throughout 6th form!

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Off Topic / Re: Animals of farthing wood?
« on: February 09, 2015, 12:11:47 PM »
No, but the guy who was a director and illustrator for the tv series was a friend of my art teacher at school in the early 90s and he came in once and showed us a load of the animation cells and stuff!
Never seen a Mole pj case before, bet it likes burrowing under duvets.

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