matchboxpaul
Well-known member
Don't let it go to landfill Seamus!
Easy for me to say as I don't have to find space for it, but many recent UK posts have been about what we once had and let go. Let it slip from your grasp and you'll be kicking yourself for months.
As a general note, I am disgusted about the UK attitude to recycling appliances/household goods. The fact that so much stuff is still landfilled is a national disgrace. The prospect that my parents recently departed matchbox dryer and 1985 vintage Hotpoint 95452 may still exist, but be in the ground, is not really something I like to think about. I would much prefer to be safe in the knowledge that they have been disposed of soundly and will live again, but in a different form, and not simply be thrown in a hole in the ground covered in black bin bags! Rant over.
Bad luck Mike! Would have been great to see a purple or slimline pairing again - those darn early 70's washers (like all things washery and Matchbox) appear to be so rare now that yet another case of so near and yet so far is quite depressing. Gutted!
Heres hoping that your new contact is able to come up trumps with a nice discovery. Fingers crossed for some good news soon.
Cheers
Paul
Easy for me to say as I don't have to find space for it, but many recent UK posts have been about what we once had and let go. Let it slip from your grasp and you'll be kicking yourself for months.
As a general note, I am disgusted about the UK attitude to recycling appliances/household goods. The fact that so much stuff is still landfilled is a national disgrace. The prospect that my parents recently departed matchbox dryer and 1985 vintage Hotpoint 95452 may still exist, but be in the ground, is not really something I like to think about. I would much prefer to be safe in the knowledge that they have been disposed of soundly and will live again, but in a different form, and not simply be thrown in a hole in the ground covered in black bin bags! Rant over.
Bad luck Mike! Would have been great to see a purple or slimline pairing again - those darn early 70's washers (like all things washery and Matchbox) appear to be so rare now that yet another case of so near and yet so far is quite depressing. Gutted!
Heres hoping that your new contact is able to come up trumps with a nice discovery. Fingers crossed for some good news soon.
Cheers
Paul
