Talk Like A Pirate Day be just a week away, arrrh...
Today the Midvalley and Rai-dei figures arrived.
They're both
amazing. The Midvalley is, as Ken opined, lean and elegant and beautifully detailed - even Sylvia (the sax-come-weapon of mass destruction) is incredibly realistic.
But it was Rai-dei that threw us. The figures come in packs, in pieces - seems that practically all of them do (my little Zaabon, for example, was in five pieces; SSJ4 Vegeta in three), and you assemble them on receipt. (And here I should comment that I've consistently been amazed by the extraordinary accuracy and precision of the pieces of every figure I have: they've all fitted together
very tightly and precisely. If only everything made in China was of the same high quality!) Midvalley was in four pieces, my Legato in five - Rai-dei was in
twelve. Including his immensely long top-knot. I really thought that was going to give me grief, given the tiny plastic plug that fitted into the top of his head, but it glued in just fine (even if I
did have to hold it in place for the full ten minutes instead of the ninety seconds most things require...)
Beautiful,
beautiful figure. The photos really don't do any of them justice, but especially not Rai-dei - the detail is mind-boggling.
I am extremely chuffed! Although I really don't know where this
fondness for obsession with 'action figures' has come from. I absolutely
hated dolls as a child - much preferred my brothers' toy cars and Lego - and still don't like them even now. Eh well.
In other news... Ken painted the waterproofing in the floor of the garden loo, so with a bit of luck we can lay the carpet out there tomorrow. I transplanted my miniature roses into a container - think they'll be happier there. I tried ringing the Congresbury garden centre to see what varieties of blueberry they had, but at the time there was no-one free to check for me. They said they'd ring back but haven't yet. Maybe tomorrow. I
did, however, find out that Whitegate Nurseries - known to us as the Secret Garden, the place hidden up a tiny road behind Wyevale that Ken and I found accidentally soon after buying the house (it's where my
calicarpa, eucalyptus and the manhole cover growing container came from - have the Jersey variety for £9.99. Jersey fruits a little later than the Northland bush I bought from Focus (who are closing down, dammit! We were
NOT happy to hear that, there'll be nowhere else within walking distance once they go). So that's an option.
And I'd like to try growing one of
these, if it'll suit our soil. It's in the Thompson and Morgan catalogue that also arrived today and over which I wasted a good half an hour drooling, so I assume it'll grow readily here.
This evening I made sushi, which was nice. Finally found a recipe for cooking the rice that actually works. However, I won't be using cheap tinned crabmeat again: even with a ferociously wasabied dipping sauce they still tasted unpleasant. We learn.
Tonight I watched and enjoyed
Get Backers vol 7. Only three more to go and I'll have seen the whole series!
I keep planning for an early night and not managing it. It's terrifying how fast the haddock keep slipping away...
Labels: action figures, anime, garden, Get Backers, Trigun
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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