A few things caught my eye on a recent mooch in the Charity shops of Skipton
This unusual picture could well have been a depiction of my fave song by Canadian rockers Rush, By Tor and The Snow Dog. It's an epic guitar battle between good and evil and even introduced me a new word as a young teenager, Tobes as in the Tobes of Hades. I still don't know what a tobe is! Ha ha.
Have you heard the song?
This implement took me back to my Mum's kitchen in the Sixties. I showed it my older sister and she said it was a palette knife. So readers, myself being a useless cook, what do you do with it?
Another blast from my parents home, we had a group of these Masai paintings on the walls. Very stylised and of their time, I'm not sure they'll fly now.
In Oxfam books I clocked the original novel, which I inspired a brilliant film I love, The Riddle of the Sands.
Starring the late Matthew McCorkindale and Michael York, it's the story of duck hunting in the Friesian Isles at the turn of the Century. Sounds boring but it isn't. Those ducks are packin'!
These caught my eye.
I've seen something odd-looking before like the Vaderesque troops on the Cataclysm cover, this little pot astronaut and helmeted spaceman in Kitaharia's fantastic Yesterday's Toys.
I was thinking of another duck-faced ceramic astronaut too, but which book is it in? To follow.
Another amazing Vargo Staten cover, that spaceship could almost be the Project SWORD Task Force 2!
Anything here you like readers?
There's a couple of types of palette knives. Generally if the blade is offset from the handle, it is for painters. If it is all aligned, like this one appears to be, it is for bakers to spread icing and frostings and such on cakes.
ReplyDeleteThe T2 rocket is awesome Woodsy, I’d love to have that!
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