Wednesday/Thursday and toy memories

wobowikkles was lovely and indulged my anal-retentiveness by downloading X3 so I could mumble over plot points and snort at plot holes. There was talk of consciousness and taking of screencaps and great food.

Buoyed by laughing over, of all things, the census with ascetic_hedony next morning, I wandered to work, which continues to be soothing. I'm doing the last of the stocktake, which is essentially working through a list of barcodes and call numbers/titles with a highlighter and finding out what we still have and what has walked over the last year.

This time round, among the reports I was checking, there were two flat CD cases with coloured plastic covers, one purple, one orange. There was something seriously trying to trigger my memory about plastic with that intensity of colour, and it took me about fifteen minutes to place it.

I used to have this toy: a tiny plastic pony that lived in a house. The pony, probably about three or four cms tall, was made of coloured, translucent plastic of either orange or purple. (Think My Little Pony in miniature) The pony was set in a 'base' of sorts that had grooves. These grooves matched those set in front of the door of the little house. You put the pony in the grooves, turned it like a key which triggered a mechanism that dropped one wall of the house open. The wall had an outside scene printed on one side, and indoor scene printed on the other. There was a table, and similar grooves (circular ones?) so you could stand the pony next to the table. The whole thing, set on green plastic base of 'grass' was probably the size of an A5 piece of paper. Does this ring any bells with anyone? It was somewhat startling to remember it so abruptly after having forgotten about it for so long.

Also, seekrit message for wobowikkles: Mum's happy for you to borrow her sewing machine. Tried to type the details in the post but it got complicated. Expect emailing, um, now.