Strange things do happen like for instance last week I recieved a stuff A5 envelope from D C Thomson, the publisher of the Beano which turned out to be the 68 page Christmas special which is odd as I had only a fortnight before a pack of this years Annual and the very same special.
That comes as part of the Beano Fan Club a collection of goodies delivered to your door with a membership pack and welcome letter.
Last day but one given it's a leap year in the month, school in this district is back as the uniformed hordes passed the window yesterday morning and the roar from the Junior playground could be heard as walked around the estate at breaktime well wrapped up.
Slightly later than usual, this week's Beano arrived through the letterbox with some replacement ankle socks to wear with my pe shorts and plimsoles so having attended to that small package I got on to reading that which takes you to The Bash Street Kids.
However I do have this figurine of "Teacher" from 2000 that was originally made for McDonalds as a Happy Meal gift which as these things go isn't badly constructed and has acceptable detail.
He's very screwed up!
His internal workings are arrange that when you move his mouth, his eyes bulge forward as if he's about to give you a telling off which I dare say many of us got.
Given when this was made his iconic cane that many of us recall from comic strips from the eighties and before isn't a feature although the "mortar board" hat still is (and you'd struggle to find a state school that has that as Teaching uniform today).
That sort of mish-mash is usually what happens when you something whose basis was established in the nineteen fifties and try selectively altering bits of it although the children and staff are still in school decades on.
Just imagine if we were!!!!
As I am typing this there is a really awful gale blowing around so I've got my super powerful torch, Not Jamie's magic one ready and a stack of comics ready to read should we lose the electric
Sadly the Dandy isn't one although I'd love there to be one say either monthly or every three months as I'm sure there is a demand provided it is aimed at children and isn't too frequent to making working and publishing too hard going.
I mean they did advertise the Dandy Summer Special to actual children via the Beano and got sales that way even though they'd be lucky normally to had seen an annual recently and a summer special to get a feel for what Dandy was all about.
That's one that is in the pile, this years sixty eight pager of exclusive cartoon strips and obviously this weeks Phoenix.
It's time for a hot cup of cocoa and some dinner here!
