Day 2 of the Home Bargains Airfix Treasure Hunt!
A beautiful sunny morning started off day two of my saga. This time I headed north, towards Cramlington. It didn't go the way I expected on the map printed on the timetable and I ended up in another backwater - Blyth: I'd got on the wrong bus, the X10 instead of the X11. No Home Bargains there, so I paused to buy a lottery ticket and got the X11 back to Cramlington. First stop was at the Brockwell centre, which were restocking the shelves with the same selection that had greeted me at Whitley Bay and North Shields.
Back on the bus, down to the Cramlington shopping centre. The walk through it seemed endless but I got to the store and liberated a pair of Typhoons, a Spitfire F22 and a PRXIX. They had Dauntlesses and a solitary Typhoon left.
Better luck was had at Wallsend, which one of my agents had reported yesterday was bereft of kits. Not so today. Interesting selection of Typhoons, Bf 109Es, Gladiators, Dinahs and Spitfire MkIXcs (the Closterman boxing). Needless to say, quite a few of these came home with me - one each of the Typhoon, Gladiator and Bf 109 (which will be heading elsewhere) and no fewer than eight Spitfire mk IXs.
Back into town and lunch with Wor Lass before heading to Blaydon. Again, an interesting time as a legless drug dealer in a wheelchair was regaling his friends about how he'd been smuggling drugs into HMP Frankland. The heavens opened as I thankfully got off the bus and I fought through torrential rain to get to the store. Again, this trip was worth it. The selection on offer this time? Typhoons, Dauntlesses, Spitfire PRXIX and F22s, plus some gift sets - Tomahawks and Fw 190As - and some 32nd British infantry. I grabbed the Spits - 4 F22s and 3 PRXIXs.
Escaping back through the rain, I took the Metro back to Jarrow, expecting them to have restocked. They had - Hawks, Vampires and Higgins boats. None of which floated my boat - except the Vampire, but another of my agents has procured some from London: he reported that Houndslow and Southall stores have loads of them - so I came away empty handed and headed back up to Cramlington to see if they'd restocked. No such luck, so I nabbed their last Typhoon, some smokey bacon crisps and a bottle of pepsi before heading home with my bag of swag.
A further injection of cash will see the saga continue tomorrow...