OK, that's about how much excitement I can muster over stamp collecting at the moment, whilst being a noble pastime it did get awfully boring sometimes. So to brighten things up a little I used to go for the more, how shall we say, unusual variety. For example, I have a particularly vivid one from Czechoslovakia of a dog sniffing another dogs bottom. From Bulgaria I have an impressive dark green stamp of a steamroller printed on what feels like newspaper. Taiwan stamps on the other hand in the 70's featured a lot of happy workers and serious leaders, whilst Germany, before 1945 had some of the smallest stamps I have ever seen and they looked like they were printed on a child's John Bull printing press. Nicaragua had the only awesome stamp of a sea creature killing a dinosaur amidst a blood bath in the sea, thrilling stuff! My favourite though was the single stamp I have from Egypt, a land of mystery and it seems leaders who on their stamps look exactly like a Zoltar machine from the film Big, all fezzed up, lots of medals and with an enigmatic look that tells you don't flip with me I'm on a stamp.
My interest waned when it dawned on me that endlessly filing square bits of paper on little flaps of gummed hinges was maybe a tad off putting to members of the opposite sex, instead I replaced it with train spotting, well, at least it got me out in the fresh air.
You should see the size of the sexy buffers on a 221 Ribble Roller Intercity 53, phwoar!
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