A Bunch of Happy Souls...
Quote Whilst retired doctor Simon Barley, from the Lake District, has an unusual handsaw hobby and is now one of the world's foremost authorities on the subject.
He has collected around 1,500 handsaws and completed a PhD and written a book on the subject.
Quote James Brown, from Heanor in Derbyshire, who has collected 300 vacuum cleaners
Quote First class: Peter Willis, 67, from Worcester, whose mission is to photograph as many of Britain's post boxes
Quote Rob Woodall, from Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, who earned a place in the book after becoming the world's leading trig bagger. His aim is to visit all 6,100 trig pillars in Britain and has just 20 more to go
What on earth is a trii.. Hang on.. i'm not sure i want to know... lol
all sorts of people from all over the world collect odd things, there was a guy from Connecticut on the TV last year who collected the teeth from dead animals (both hunted and road kill) and stored them in jars .....
I don't personally have any wacky collections but an awful lot of people are into things like trading cards, trumps and of course war hammer, one guy I used to work with would spend up to a grand a month buying figures up to 4ft tall and then spend weeks decorating them (proper anorak stuff) another fella spent weeks traveling around with a butterfly net so he could mount them in display cases ..... and of course you get the good old spotters out n about regularly although not as many as in past years
I don't personally have any wacky collections but an awful lot of people are into things like trading cards, trumps and of course war hammer, one guy I used to work with would spend up to a grand a month buying figures up to 4ft tall and then spend weeks decorating them (proper anorak stuff) another fella spent weeks traveling around with a butterfly net so he could mount them in display cases ..... and of course you get the good old spotters out n about regularly although not as many as in past years
