After my true Halloween nightmare, a visit the the dentists this morning ( I had to ask for more numbing!) I bobbed into the Posties to mail a congrats card to our nephew who has just had some good news.
Waiting in the queue I noticed the Horrible Histories magazine and ..... bam!
The free gift skeleton pen took me straight back to being a kid, buying gags and toys from Ellisdons of Liverpool.
It's not that it's a pen, it's because it's very similar to the plastic restless skeleton I had, a smaller magnetic scalliwag that just couldn't rest in its plastic coffin. It was superb and I adored it, now sorrowfully missing in traction.
There are very few pictures online of the restless skeleton but the, sadly, now dormant Cobwebbed Room ( what a fab site!) features these three scans, which I have reposted here (hopefully the Cobwebbed owner doesn't mind).
Similarly another Horrible Histories mag freebie, in the superb Victorian Gravedigger Set, gave me a thrill too.
No skeletons at all. I did get a set of Halloween skeletons recently for a project, but that has not progressed at all - and it is almost Halloween !
ReplyDeleteWhat was the project Paul?
DeleteIf I can get things organised this weekend - a long weekend for Labour Day - you will have photographs. But the Count will be making an appearance.
DeleteGiven my adult love for skeletons, I was terrified of them as a kid!
ReplyDeleteMy cousin used to make me scream, by lowering a fun fair prize skull into my lower bunk bed!
Does anyone remember those?
White blow moulded plastic with silver faceted jewel eyes?
That does ring a bell Looey. There'll be a picture somewhere. I had lots of skulls as a kid including a soft plastic shrunken head.
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