off to tauranga to see the kids. will be back on saturday, hopefully with some new stuff.
got home from work to find a large parcel in my chair. peter sam has arrived safe and sound. im absolutely stoked to have him at long last. he is one of the rarest from the original trackmaster range, along with duke and bertrum. mine is a fisher price release, but the model is still identical so it all good.
photos can be found here in other news. im off to tauranga with mum to stay with the kidlets next week. hopefully i will come home with some second hand bits and pieces. we will be leaving sunday and be back the following saturday. last week, i found a MIB peter sam listed on trademe. from the same seller was glowing diesel. i decided to bid for both, but with the main goal of winning PS. both auctions ended today. i won peter sam for $50NZD. that price is double the retail cost, but given we have never had him, it was worth it. unfortunately i missed on diesel, but i have a slim chance of finding him in aussie, plus hes more plentiful online than peter sam ever was. will post photos as soon as he arrives! on tuesday, i decided to treat myself to a new tattoo. i went and saw deane at soul graffiti and he had a space for wednesday afternoon. $140 and an hour later, i came out with this i absolutely love it, its even better than i imagined. ive shown it to a few people today and all have assumed it was a stick on, lol. while i was born in new zealand, i spent 6 months in canada and feel more homesick for there than i ever did for "home". i truly feel canada is where i belong and its my dream to go back there for good.
today i got a large number of photos printed so i can start making scrapbooks to show at the train club open days. i got close to 400 pictures done. i will post photos of the pages as i go, mainly to show the designs. at this stage i will be making 3 books, one for vintage, one for tomy thomas and the 3rd for both generations of trackmaster.
on friday, my boss linda asked me to go up to savemart and pick up a spongebob duvet for her grandson. while there i had to look at the toys. i found a bag of big big loader for $9. was fun strapping it on the back of the bike, and rattly the whole way back to work, lol. :-P
once i got home and unpacked it, i found i would be keeping more than expected. the motor of course is always useful, but there was also a lor1 cover that i hadnt seen before, and also the tall cranky the crane. i glued his arm into position and dismantled the part of the track which contained his "winch" thomas would power him, lifting the winch so he could bring the ball load up. the winch was in two parts. i glued them together, and his bucket can hold small loads. he will need a baseplate as he is top heavy and falls over. he is a lovely addition, much better than the basic cranky at the docks. when i pulled the piece apart to get at the winch, i got the idea of removing all the screws for spares. the bits i dont need will be chucked out. the set was incomplete anyway, so theres no point keeping the left overs. mum and dad got home about 2.30 this morning. photos of the see inside cars are here, down the bottom. they are very nicely done and were an amazing find. the horse show ones i hadnt even seen on ebay! very odd for new zealand to be so up to date.
i got home from work yesterday, went out to feed scrap, our 15 year old foxy. she had vanished. turns out she had been stolen some time tuesday night. mum called the pound this morning, she had been picked up clear across town by the river. no way she could have walked that far without getting run over, shes deaf and going blind. a very long 24 hours. how they knew she was here, i dont know as she never barks and is kept in the back yard behind gates as tall as me. we are glad to have her back alive, and relieved she wasnt used for dog fighting bait, which is what we all thought. why the heck they took her only to dump her, i dont know. |
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