SELBY SATURDAY RUMMAGE

 Today, Saturday, the Missus and me had a mooch round the market town of Selby about a half hour's drive from Moonbase.

A pleasant burg with its own huge thousand year old Abbey smack in the middle of the town centre, Selby is always fun. The 10 charity shops make it a day out for rummagers like us.

Despite the many charidees there wasn't a single old die-cast car to be seen, just modern unbranded tat. Still we bought a shirt each, some doll's clothes for Little Miss Moonbase, a modern Hot Wheels fire department car for Junior, some DVDs for Junior too and most exciting of all a stack of plates and dishes stamped with a T from an old hotel or cruise ship, which we walked off with dreaming of early retirement! ha ha

One charity shop had a retro section and I snapped one of the cupboards here.

One of the board games was 4000 AD [top right], which rang a moonbase bell. I was sure we had had the inventor of the game writing to us on MC years ago. I'll have to check. Nice to see a plastic Casdon typewriter and a really really old wooden doll's house.

In another shop was Hangman with the ever-smirking Vincent Price on the cover, its main feature of interest for me. I've never liked MB's photographic box lids like these two, much preferring the old paintings of joyous nuclear families on Sixties board games' box art. Still, I always like to see Vincent on anything. I wonder where that is in the picture?

Have you had a browse round your local charities or antique shops recently readers? See anything interesting?