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"Greetings to you Paul,
Merry Zero-Xmas to you and your family! May the new year bring many more opportunities to enjoy the best space toy blog on the net! Cheers!
William"
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I've just got back from Whitby on the Yorkshire Coast (North East England) after spending 8 fab festive days there with my family over the holidays. Christmas by the sea! It was totally snowbound, wonderfully bracing on the beaches, completely IT free and only a little TV ( it was restricted to just 4 channels in our Xmas cottage!). Whilst away I recieved some nice messages including the above e-Crimbo cards from readers Darth and Mike Burrows. Thanks a bunch guys. Hope everyone has had a great great Christmas.
PS. Thanks also to everyone who left me Birthday messages on WOTAN's posting last week. Much appreciated! To be honest I don't like getting older, wish I was still playing with all the cool toys I used to have and not collecting them but hey ho, time marches on regardless. Having a Birthday so near to Xmas was always a bit wierd too! I mostly got a couple of early Crimbo prezzies as a nipper, which was fine with me especially when one of 'em was a Zeroid or an Outer Space Man! Now I'm all growed-up, my own family try very hard to make my Birthday stand out from the imminent festival and the highlight this year was an original VHS tape of Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey in a pristine early 1980's 'big box' video case with all its 'rental store' stickers, which just add to its history . I love old big box VHS (the first generation of video) as they're closer, time-wise, to the original films than DVD (which I also love). I suppose I should collect old boxed Cinefilms if I want to get as close to the orginal films as possible but collecting big box VHS videos is relatively cheap and with the number of Charity Shops and Car Boots around here easy to get rewarding results often. I hardly ever see boxed Cinefilms, Super 8 or the like. It must have been an earlier generation of collectors who hoovered them all up maybe?
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