On my recent annual Birthday romp down Headingly high street, the Missus and me had fun in the Oxfam bookshop as well as a few others Charities.
But first we went shopping in Lidl and saw this boxed My Very Own Moon, a curved plastic illuminated half-moon wall-hanging, which I thought would make an ideal basis for some small SpaceX toys. Alas, at £19.99 I passed.
We also saw Lightyear toys on the Lidl shelves. To Lidl and beyond.
In a charity shop was this Deluxe Car Wash and Detail Center. For kids cleaning die-casts. How cool is that!
As was this boxed Matchbox Lightning T55 kit.
In Oxfam Books was this GOR paperback collection. I know them but I've never read any. Have you?
And in the antiques section were loads of books on collecting toys: tin, metal, antique and die-casts, all reasonably priced. I have enough toy books already so I let them be.
William Horwood paperbacks were in situ. I adored the Stonor Eagles as a teenager but never read any of the Duncton Wood mole novels. Did you?
I did read Anne McCaffrey's wonderful Dragonsong and still have my teenage copy in the attic.
I also read Julian May's Saga of the Exiles trilogy. Seeing them again in the same Pan editions brought back many happy memories of adolescent reading.
Ian Fleming's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was in evidence too.
Always good to see an old hardback of Robin Hood. Did you have one?
Just William passed me by as a kid. You?
Yep, it was a fun day out looking at old books.
Is it something you like doing readers?
I love second-hand bookshops, but there are not many left now. NZ charity shops seldom have anything of interest.
ReplyDeleteI have seen the Moon, with changing phases, and thought it would be a useful photographic prop, but a bit too expensive for me too.
I have a couple of those collecting books, but you always need more. I love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and have a few. Yes, on Robin Hood. I also had some of the Armada paperback editions of the William books. Good fun.
But what did you actually buy ?
I bought a box of toy soldiers for a fiver.
DeleteI have not read the Duncton Wood books by William Horwood, but I do have and love his sequels to Wind in the Willows.
ReplyDeleteI think I have that very edition of Robin Hood. I'm old enough to have watched the TV show starring Richard Green from the beginning. A series that had many of the character actors familiar to British TV viewers in various roles. It was fun to watch 11 Century outlaws wearing WW2 army surplus suede desert boots.
Ha ha. I used to watch that black and white Robin Hood series when they showed repeats at Christmas In the Sixties and Seventies.
Deleteinteresting to see Lightyear in lidl, especially the model on the right, which is from the rarer second wave!
ReplyDeleteYes, I was surprised to them in Lidl.
DeleteI like the Dragonrider novels of Anne Mccaffrey.
ReplyDeleteYep, Kev, it was one of those reading moments as a teenager, when I discovered that there was fantasy writing beyond the brilliant Lord of the Rings.
DeleteIf I'm being picky, the Dragonrider stories are science fiction not fantasy. The world of Pern is an Earth colony (although the inhabitants don't know that) and the dragons are the result of genetic modification ( although the riders don't know that either!). Still, thankfully, I'm not picky!
Deleteha ha, and I'm glad your not Kev!
DeleteThe Gor books have developed a bit of a reputation of being incredibly sexist and misogynistic. Apparently John Norman delierately made them more so after his divorce, to annoy his ex-wife! I believe the first few are worth reading, a bit like ER Burroughs' Mars series, but then they rapidly go downhill.
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