A few final notes from abroad last month now I'm home.
I saw this toy cable car in a German shop window, which I thought was neat. Whether it moved I don't know. It didn't when I was there.
I think the maker is Lehmann but I may have seen a Rigi one.
Me and the Missus said goodbye to everything in her late parents' apartment. Everything that we didn't sell at Flöhmarkten or give away. This old plaster grandma held on till the bitter end, finally parting with us in the final days before we closed the door for good. She just didn't want to leave.
This long model ship was in a Trödel Laden or junk shop. It will make someone who collects ships sehr zu frieden (very happy).
I snapped this hot air balloon as it was passing near our car boot stall. I hadn't realized I'd got the chap in too. He looks non-plussed! I've never been in a hot air balloon and with a bad fear of heights I wouldn't ever. I do love to see them though. You?
This beautiful Isetta caught my eye whilst we delivered a deck chair to someone. I remember these from being a kid in the Sixties. We called them bubble cars.
Has any reader driven one? Have you ever sat in an Isetta?
And a final sad note: despite trying to re-home a lovely and large 1960's home-made Puppenhaus, or dolls house, with various friends, alas, it went back to the charity warehouse we bought it from four years ago to start yet another journey in its long life.
Auf Wiedersehen Puppenhaus.
Ah, bubble cars. Back in 1959 the music teacher at my school drove one. He was Mr Gill and we referred to his car as 'The Fishbowl'. While he was also the music teacher to a few members of The Kinks, I don't think he had any input to their talents.
ReplyDeleteha ha, the Fishbowl! and the Kinks! Wow! Wiki says this about their schooling - The brothers attended William Grimshaw Secondary Modern School (later merged with Tollington Grammar School to become Fortismere School), where they formed a band, the Ray Davies Quartet.
DeleteI had fond memories of a Spot On (Triang?) Die cast toy of an Isetta as a kid. For the past 10 years, I've been drawing a comic strip of the semi-fictionalised real life adventures of my wife and I. She has a cream Nissan Micra in reality, but it's much more fun to draw it as an Isetta!
DeleteI think I had a die-cast Isetta too Looey! That comic strip sounds wonderful.
DeleteI love your photo of the car boot sale. Brings back memories of summer.
ReplyDeleteBeen in a hot air balloon once, years ago. The date was postponed many times due to weather conditions, but when it finally happened, it was panoramic in a very special way.
After an hour's flight, we ended up in a wheat field. Hovering some ten inches above it looking for a place to land felt magical.
Ps. There is a lovely montgolfier kit by Adams, "La Coquette" from the movie Around the World in 80 Days.
DeleteLovely image of your ballooning Arto! An hour! Blimey, I wouldn't have lasted a minute before climbing out!
DeleteWouldn't recommend climbing out one minute after take-off, Woodsy!
Deleteha ha!
DeleteId have left that Granny behind! Its scary! the Rigi and Lehmann cable cars are brilliant, they travel back and to along the line and when they reach the end, it pushes a switch and returns back the way it came. Id love a hot air ballonn flight, but id probably need half a box of tranquilliers before I could look over he basket! Bill
ReplyDeleteha ha, we have an even scarier figure with glass eyes! Theose cable cars sounds ace. I must try to find a clip. he he, I know what you mean about tranquilisers. I'd love to go to a big balloon festival.
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