Back in our first full year on MC, 2009, born out of my childhood love of Project SWORD, we largely focused on Gerry Anderson's amazing ...

I'm going to go back a few years now. My whole life I'd been carrying round memories of the cool Project SWORD toys I'd had as a...

I wrapped up my first sale in the re-opened attic this morning. A 1980's Barbie Gym no less! It'll go to the Post Office later today...

 I've opened up Harry [the attic] and retirement sorting/ perusing/ pondering/staring through the window/Ebaying has resumed. The old Ma...

I had another blast from the past at my Daughter's house over the weekend. She returned a plastic box I hadn't seen in years.  This ...

I love the name at the bottom of this old pen packaging, Rocket Repair Dept. of Hoboken, NJ, which I saw on auction. When I was cho...

Earlier in the year I asked American reader and active contributor Terranova47 how he first heard of Moonbase Central. He told me: Hi Woodsy...

Here's a blast from my past, an old mail order sales list of mine from the year 2000. I traded as Moonzero in those days. This blog...

It's roasting here in West Yorkshire, UK. I've just switched on a big metal fan to cool down me and the missus and the mutt. ...

Not sure why I saved this bookmark but here's an archived page from the blog from 2015. The archive looks like a type of Wayback Machi...

Found these in my archive folder. Old blog business cards. I think Bill made them for me. I gave them out at the TV21 conve...

Well readers, its half way through August and the British heatwave seems to be over. Its by no means cold here in West Yorkshire but there...

I saw a phrase I hadn't seen before the other day. It was 'ghost site'. It refers to a dormant website on the net. I had seen th...

I found this old GIF banner in my photo archives. A bit of giffy fun. This was part of my old late 90's/ 00's website, Moon...

During our ongoing clear out at Moonbase I found some floppy discs from the late 90's/ 2000.  I can't believe that we still used fl...

Its always pleasing to see fellow collectors reading the blog. Makes it all worthwhile. Here's some evidence it was read even in those ...

These are the earliest references to Project SWORD and SpaceX I can find on the internet. Some sites I have to guess at in terms of year un...

I have removed a lot of items from the blog's sidebar.  The moving world globe has gone, as have the SpaceX card art slideshows, to...

Here's a relatively blog-friendly version of the SWORD and SpaceX toys checklist I wrote in 1998, which was kindly published by Brian ...