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MODELS CATCH THE EYE IN BRIGG
Our eye was caught by a Twitter message from Brian's DIY in Brigg which stated: "Airfix models and accessories have been relocated to their new home in the stationery section."
Many of us who are now middle-aged, and even older, grew up making Airfix models. So it's great to see they are still popular enough to be sold at this Wrawby Street shop.
Do today's model-makers still drop glue on mother's kitchen table and best Axminster carpet?
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2 comments:
True...the glue use to drip and solidify in a little bead that stuck to something precious....but nowadays, one has to be at least 16 years old to buy solvent (polystyrene plastic) glue.....and then there was also balsa cement...and how about 'Dope'for shrinking the tissue covering on wooden flying models.
I'm sure if it happened now that I would be carted off to the nick for questioning about suspicious glue-sniffing and my parents arrested for child neglect.
But then the story doesn't end here....the model diesel engines for the aeroplanes were powered by ether-based fuel....My model table was, on reflection, a drug-dealer's emporium....!!
......and then there was the case of me and the bedroom cupboard......
A few years ago, my next door neighbour threw out a leather settee..
Ever conscious of recycling, using a Stanley knife (purchased from Brians, or Brian's?, I cut a large rectangle of leather from the back of the settee......it would make the ideal floor covering for the inside of my built-in bedroom cupboard.
Refining the leather to fit' I nipped along to Brians, or Brian's? and purchased a tin of spray Evo-Stik - just the job for sticking.
Head inside cupboard, I sprayed the cupboard's floor...waited until it was tacky - as per instructions, and then started carefully pressing the leather covering in place.
I didn't half feel funny.....it took me some minutes to realise that head inside confined space with lashing of solvent fumes don't mix.....
Then I knew what glue-sniffing was all about....dangerously light-headed, dizzy and nauseous....not the sort of experience one wants to repeat....
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