The things that happen...

Well it is two days on from the main event which'll be on the other blog on Monday but it's also two and bit days on from something else that is affecting me presently.

For as many years I can remember I have had, some might say suffered from, severe miagraines which are sadly nothing like headaches, much more intense and don't just go away with with a tablet.

They have a tendency to cut into everything you might of being planning to do often with little warning from things you might of wanted an excuse  from like games class to things you were really looking forward to such as a trip out, a play date or a party.

They also have before now cut into birthdays too which is really rotten taken the shine of it even if you have managed to be up  having had a number I've been in bed instead and that sadly is what happened this time around just like a bolt out of the blue.

I made being up and just about managing a birthday meal but really way way out of things with perhap the best consolation being I was properly dressed in smart schoolboy uniform and that point of view being a bit more me that things were at times in the past where internal feelings and external presentations didn't align.

Plus this year there was space for the cards in the front window and presents including chocolate were out more.

All being well I'll catch up on my comic reading by later on today and mark Mothering Sunday in some way as obviously she's no longer physically there.

Birthday Edition v1.2

Something happened on Saturday and it doesn't easily fit the blogging schedules but can anyone guess what it might be?

Hmm thanks to that nasty virus this year unlike last year by a hairs breath organized events of the sort that normally would mark birthdays are out as much as I'd just love to have a party or even a birthday meal out.

You might recall something came at Christmas back into my life but this year the main present is even closer to home.

This is a original 1970's Action Man of the sort I actually had unlike the new ones you can buy from places like Amazon and when they are re-opened toy shops.

The moulds and construction is more flexible in the original which as boys when we posed them in the imaginary play we had was useful for more realism compared to the newer one.

Then there's the plastic used is of a higher standard which distinguished him from the more generic boys soldier figures of the seventies. 

The Achilles heal of the original unlike those from even the late 80's and 90's is the hands that were rubberized, prone to perishing or breaking off and on this one the hands have been carefully replaced as part of the restoration by new ones.

Toys are meant to played with so for me it's a must that you have functioning hands rather than the collector only original parts mentality, the badge is a replica and the scarf is handknitted  but all else is original as Palitoy supplied it.

Also I got a 1993 figure dressed as a Snowboarder with seven accessories apart from a original Rocket Launcher.

Having back something whose removal including a massive collection of accessories was a long running sore given it was played with at the time is just great.

Although we don't generally talk about music much on this blog compared with the originals I had two whole series of cds, the first of which was by the composer Prokofiev.

The set were a complete set of Violin Sonatas by Beethoven that although they'd come out in 2014 I had missed out upon

I had some money from relatives for when the shops finally reopen and some knitted bedsocks from an elderly neighbour to whom I'm a bit of an acquired grandson in his grey shorts which is an indication of the extent to which the eternal boy I am is increasingly accepted.