Quakers For Peace

 Five of us walked down to the Peace Garden in our blue Quakers for Peace tee-shirts and took up position by the monument to civilian victims of WWII.  Only Jacky really tried to engage the general public. After a while she moved off, leaflets in hand, to see if she could find any military men to challenge. The rest of us looked at one another and agreed that her kind of active evangelism wasn't for us.

After we'd stood about for what we considered long enough we drifted off- either to have lunch or watch the aerobatics.....

Fireman

 This my latest purchase from the tip shop.



He stands a little short of a foot high and is made of some sort of composite material. He carries nothing in the way of a manfacturer's mark. 

Usually I have no trouble in getting the internet to tell me what a thing is, but with the Fireman I'm drawing a blank. I'm not finding any object that resembles him, nor any picture of an actual fireman of any nationality wearing comparable gear. I have the feeling he's not English but I could be wrong- and he's obviously been around for a while.

Anyone out there have any idea?