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Post 1

ChiKiSpirit

smiley - tit Thanks Emmily smiley - ok

Thank you for a very informative page

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Post 2

Galaxy Babe - eclectic editor

It's wonderful isn't it? smiley - rainbow

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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

smiley - cheers it's one that I enjoyed researching and writing, and I smiley - love the photo, I think that's my favourite photo so far. smiley - biggrin

Emmily
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Post 4

childoftheseventies

wonderful article, brilliantly researched. Well done from a fellow badge collector.
smiley - cheersChildoftheseventies.


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

Thank you childoftheseventies smiley - smiley I've not been collecting badges long, I only have 73. Have you been collectin them for a long time, and how many do you have? smiley - smiley

smiley - sorry for the delay in replying, this got lost in my baglog. smiley - blush

Emmily
smiley - bluebutterfly


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

or even back log, god knows what I was thinking then smiley - rofl

Emmily
smiley - bluebutterfly


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Post 7

childoftheseventies

I've been collecting them for about five years or so now, I guess.. I don't really know how many I've got, but I'd say well over 100! Mind you, some of them were given to me by kind customers who come into the bookshop where I work, so perhaps these ones shouldn't count!smiley - winkeye Some of them were obtained from charity shops, some from Superdrug, and some from participating clothes shops and banks.. It's really nice to see someone else enjoying collecting charity badges too. Thank you for a brilliant article,Emmily,smiley - cheers.
Childoftheseventies.
P.S. About the enamel poppy badges.. Did you say they were only available from the British Legion, sorry, I have a memory like a sieve! I get the paper poppies every year if I can, but we don't have regular poppy sellers around my way, unfortunately!smiley - cheers


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

Not all of mine are new either, some I bought from the charity shop where I work, sometimes they come in loose, sometimes attached to a coat lapel, though there hasn't been many recently. I'll have to get out and about more often, add to my collection from participating shops and banks. smiley - smiley

I also work with books, though second hand books in my case. I sort and display the books that are donated to the charity shop, and we get quite a lot in. smiley - smiley

That's the information I was told by the poppy seller, that the enamel pin badges were only available through British Legion clubs. Some are available with the year embossed on them, some without, the one I got had 2006 on it, I was told a British Legion club a few miles away had them without the date on, I was quite happy with the date on. smiley - biggrin

Emmily
smiley - bluebutterfly




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Post 9

childoftheseventies

Thanks for the info.smiley - ok. As well as their 'Children in Need' badges, Boots do badges in collaboration with Cancer Research UK every summer to do with their 'Sunsmart' campaign. It aims to make people aware of the issues surrounding skin cancer, not to mention the range of products (not just badges)that they bring out in October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month..smiley - sorry I'm beginning to sound like an anorak! I'll fetch me coat!!smiley - run.
I also collect bookmarks.. Some are freebies and some I've bought..
Childoftheseventies.
P.S. I also have a collection of hedgehogs and dogs as they are my favourite mammals!!


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

Oh, Boots and their Pudsey badges, they never had none in any of the stores I visited last October/November, I even had someone looking in the Boots in Cleethorpes for them, no joy. I eventually discovered ASDA had them, even phoned my nearest store to check they had them before persuading my partner to take me there *just* so I could get a Pudsey pin Badge. smiley - smiley

Hmmm wish we'd had this conversation last week, a big bundle of bookmarks came in the shop, looked like they were from an ex-collector, they're all sold now smiley - sadface

Emmily
smiley - bluebutterfly


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Post 11

childoftheseventies

Never mind.. Re: the Pudsey badges.. I have to confess that the only way I got one was from a generous bookshop customer, but she told me it came from Bootssmiley - blush.
Childoftheseventies.


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

Previous years Boots have had them, they had other 'Children in Need' novelties, just not the pin badges. Some of the staff I asked were baffled by it, as they'd had them before, I guess it'll remain a mystery. smiley - smiley

I'm not trying to hassle you smiley - smiley, just wondered if you'd like to join the Collector's Corner (A19482249) another badge collector, and the only bookmark collector so far, no worries if you want to smiley - oksmiley - smiley

Emmily
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Post 13

childoftheseventies

Yes, please! How do I join?smiley - smiley
Childoftheseventies.


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

You've joined smiley - smiley

I've just added you as pin badge and bookmark collector at the moment, didn't know if you wanted me to add about your collection of horses and dogs as well, are these china type smiley - dog and smiley - pony or cuddley, or a mixture of both? smiley - smiley

Emmily
smiley - bluebutterfly


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Post 15

childoftheseventies

Well, I collect both types of s and smiley - dogs. I don't collect smiley - ponys though!smiley - cheers
I have three Swarovski crystal hedgehogs amongst my collection. Most of the hedgehogs are from the 'country companions' collection, although I did buy a lovely Royal Doulton one from a charity shop (PDSA if I remember correctly). My Aunt bought me three lovely natural looking (not the cute dressed as human type ones I buy myself!)ones for my birthday or Christmas prezzies, as well as contributing to my dog collection (Westies, mainly, but other dogs as well). Sorry, this is getting to be quite an essay! Hope I haven't sent you to smiley - sleepy..
Childoftheseventies.
P.S. No hedgehog smiley!smiley - wah


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Emmily ~ Roses are red, Peas are green, My face is a laugh, But yours is a scream

Oooppsss smiley - blushsmiley - sorry for mixing up hedgehogs with horses, I should have looked back to where you said what were your favourite mammals that you collected. smiley - doh

I got a few of my pin badges from a hedgehog charity on ebay, can't remember what it's called now though. smiley - erm

Are Westies your favourite dog breed. (My fav smiley - dogs are King Charles Spaniels and Yorkies smiley - smiley)

You're not sending me to smiley - sleepy at all smiley - smiley

Emmily
smiley - bluebutterfly


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Post 17

childoftheseventies

Westies are my favourite breed of smiley - dog, but I like all dogs, really.. Talking of dogs, my real dog, Flo, is keeping an eye on proceedings while I type this. Could be something to do with the shortbread biccies I've got in my hand though smiley - laugh!!
I'm glad I didn't send you to smiley - sleepy.. I do have a tendency to go on and on when I talk about something that interests me..
smiley - cheers
Childoftheseventies.


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Post 18

Ladye_Seagull

I couldn't agree with you more. Don't bother saying it again.


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