ultra needle

greetings

so little is the time i appear to have to do all of this any more that i bring you news of not just one, not quite so many as three or five but two (2) new hedgehog effigy likeness things. normally such would see me do one post for each of them, so as to give me something (or other) to place here, but here we are. 

once more the provenance of these is off of service stations. and that would be service stations exclusively found on the great M1. driving down the A1 is a miserable experience, as many of you will no doubt be all too aware, with a lack of decent service stations and basically a terrible road to travel. 

and also once more, yes, the in no way to scale and (rather) inaccurate likenesses of the hedgehogs, for we are in the realm of plural here, come in decidedly Greta-baiting big plastic balls. not sure if these can be recycled, or repurposed. one would like to think so but no, i am not going to investigate all that far. 

further and also once more these are very much off of the "needle" range of hedgehog miniature statues purchased from service stations. not squedgehogs, then, or squeezy hedgehogs. if you are of a mind to read more of the original needle hedgehog what i got, here you go, this is the link. 

yes, i can give you some more better, specific provenance of each. the first (of these two) what i bought was the orange one. or auburn one, if you wish to maintain a strange pretence of that being a more realistic colour for a hedgehog. i picked this one up at Tibshelf services, which is vaguely classified as being of Chesterfield. the place, not the (by UK tax standards) cheap cigarettes. most recently i got the yellow one, and that was off of Watford Gap services. which isn't really near Watford as such (i don't think, unless Watford is massive), but is generally regarded as the "north south divide" border. that was a matter i discussed in another post somewhere, unless someone has also (kindly) flagged that for having disturbing content. 

if you are interested in such things, both were purchased on the north going variation of each service station. so yes, i bought them as i returned to my lodgings in place of exile, rather than as i headed towards the south for verk related matters which i would prefer not to discuss. needle fans, however, will know that these needle hedgehogs do a quite smart light display trick, and would much rather see that in full effect than worry about provenance. 

perhaps some form of warning should have been placed before that smart animated gif thing, in the greater good and glory of Commodore 64 mode, on the off chance flashing images cause some distress or medical impairment. whoops, sorry. a warning for such, or similar, is certainly applicable for the video which comes up next, and yes we have got a video. 

exactly where did my fascination with hedgehogs start? i suspect this is something i have discussed before, and also am fairly sure no one is interested. but, since we are here, undoubtedly it stems from that Ethel The Frog segment of Monty Python's Flying Circus, where infamous east end gangster Dinsdale Piranha believed he was being stalked by a massive hedgehog called Spiny Norman. what's not to love about that?  

the promised, or at least previously referenced, video is above. indeed, to clarify (and for the benefit of anyone who did not click on the link) it is so that the blue one in the video is the original needle hedgehog what i picked up on my travels. 

how many more of these hedgehog things am i likely to buy? quite a few, really. nope, no practical use for them, except showcasing them here, and limited space to keep them all. for the moment they all reside on top of my tape (compact disc) cabinet, but i am indeed running out of surface area. such is unlikely to prevent me adding, it's a compulsion or instinct thing. 

what shall happen to them once i am gone from this world? that's not really going to be my problem, is it, for no more shall i be here to tend to them, or add to their number. i don't think i am particularly interested in that, really. sure, i might be curious as to what shall become of, say, my Bowie collection, or my formidable library of erotica, but mostly, well, no, it will be of no further concern to moi. 

bit of an unintended downer way to end this all off, really. sorry, really was not intended, it just all sort of came to mind, and so i wrote. anyway, don't let that distract you, just hang around for as long as you wish and admire the latest hedgehog additions to my collection. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!