Tag: memory
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Define Nostalgia
Easy to do for yourself – hard to do for others… The theme for some of the displays seen at the WAMA exhibition revolved around nostalgia. The vague meaning of the word – a pain for the past – may be a lot more apposite than you’d think if your past was a pain. Some…
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What Was It About Toys That You Loved?
I mean when you were a child; before you became a kewl and contemptuous teenager. Novelty? Colour? Cuteness? Action? Or the fact that they brought the large world down to your size? All of these factors were a real thing then. Have you ever thought why they are not the same now? You are past…
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Leave Us Not
Leave us not get the impression that The Little World is only airplanes – it is far more, as the ever-growing storage racks at my studio will attest. There are cars, trains, planes, houses, shops, caravans, and dinosaurs. Also stage sets, movie studios, horses, porcelain dogs, and a resident gecko that lays eggs. The heading…
The Little World 