I still have a similar one. It’s a vertical metal rod on a wooden base and a wooden ball on top. There’s a ring that can slide along the rod. The ring has a tiny woodpecker figure mounted on a spring. With the ring in the top position you pull the bird and it starts pecking on the rod, moving the ring downwards with each peck, making that boinging & ticking noise. I used to love it as a kid. I still do. But I used to, too.

EDIT found a video of this exact one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Szhxh1eEEL4

At least five new countries acquire nuclear weapons.

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”

“However, World Bank data comes from the statistics provided by member countries, and Russia has in the past been accused of fudging figures as part of its ongoing “information war” against the West.”

Alternate headline: Russia says sanctions are making Russia stronger