Thursday 27 March 2008

Fruit 'n' Veg



As the wholesale goliath that is Combo Fruit & Vegetable International Inc. wakes from its winter slumber, so the highly-paid team of labourers and market gardeners set about their various tasks with professional relish. Here we see Alessandro, executive manager of the tracked vehicles unit, casting his seasoned and approving eye over the freshly-turned sod.

5 comments:

Toby Savage said...

Ooooooohhhh. You know how to get my juices flowing Ron. How dearly I would love my very own compact tracked vehicle. Anything will do.

Fred Fibonacci said...

Me too. In every man's life there's a gap that only be filled by a tracked vehicle. Spike Milligan made energetic use of a Bren gun carrier, as reported in 'Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall' (cue: Diplomat) and I was very taken with the half-track featured in 'Kelly's Heroes'. Now we have 'Tomatoes: My Part In Their Cultivation' by Sig. Ron Combo. Fabulous. Pass the Plymouth.

Peter Ashley said...

Will you drive it over to Blighty Ron, so that you can help me bulldoze the new electronic 'safety' speed signs that are now defacing our villages?

The only tracked vehicle I ever owned was a Dinky Supertoy Centurion Tank, carted around the lounge carpet on a Thorneycroft Mighty Antar transporter. I kept mine in slavish mint condition, but did think that the rubber tank tracks would make particularly effective catapults.

Fred Fibonacci said...

Mighty Antar, Centurion tank. That Dinky combo (snarf) had a big place in the Fibonacci toy canon too. As a teenager I lusted after the real thing at J.T. Leavesley's fabulous army surplus yard on the A38 at Alrewas.

Alrewas: Was Real. Is it still?

Peter Ashley said...

Alrewas is indeed real and still there. Home to the bizarre National Memorial Arboretum, a theme park for war memorials. Here you can see not only new monuments like the polar bear for the 49th West Riding Infantry Division, and a blind-folded soldier standing in for the executed, but also memorials moved out of London when buildings were demolished. It'll look better when all the trees have grown beyond a foot high.