TOPPS BATMAN 'GLOVE' PUPPET...

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Remember this item?  I remember getting a

BATMAN 'glove' puppet in Glasgow's KELVIN

HALL in the 1960s (and immediately disposing of

the disgusting 'confectionary' inside), but it didn't

last long, being made of mere polythene.

Cut to my primary school's playground some

time later, where I acquired another one from a

classmate, IAN ROBBIE, in exchange for a bag

of KP nuts (which cost tuppence) and, I think, a

thru'penny bit.  The second probably didn't

last much longer than the first.

In real life that is, but it lived on in memory

to the present day.  I ran into Ian last week, not

having seen him in 20 years or so, and we reminis-

ced about that puppet.  To be honest, I was quite

surprised that he remembered, because in all the

time I've known him, I don't think he's ever

referred back to it before.

Perhaps one of those nuts lodged in his

throat, ensuring that the item he swapped for

them likewise lodged in his memory.  (See what I

did there?)  Anyone else remember them?  If so,

leave a comment in the you-know-where.

(You'll feel better for it.)

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