Christmas in the Sixties and Seventies meant drinks iny parents house. Lots of festive drinks. As a kid I stuck to my usual beverages: Tizer...

  Another sad day for iconic brands from our childhood. Typhoo Tea are about to call in the Administrators. I remember collecting their tea ...

 I picked this up for Moonbase Junior ages ago. Sitting down with Grandad sticking stuff in an album is what I had mind. This particular alb...

  Happy New Year Readers! Thanks for all your continued support! Tune in to MoonBase Central throughout 2024 if you can! Woodsy * and on a c...

  This key ring I saw on Ebay is the same as the Watneys Red Barrel one I had as a kid. Like Terranova47's Red Barrel lorry, this key ri...

I haven't seen an old toy in a pub that I wanted but I have a related story, When in college I met by chance in a pub a school friend of...

Being Sixty plus now I don't go for a drink as much as I did when I was young. I've never been a huge pub fan and I'm not really...

These are Arto's fab and original Finnish Batman bottles with painted interiors. The recent Heritage Batman auction sold the bottle in t...

Still abroad I've been sampling various local brews.  One here in Deutschland is Spezi. Sold in bottles and cans, it's a mixture of ...

  I was fascinated by this Fizz Nik. At first I thought it was a space toy but no, its a straw! You fill it with ice cream or ice, slot it i...

           Milky Bar Hot Chocolate drink is made by Nestle, and comes in a box with 10 sachets. The instructions on the back of the box ...

Hello Woodsy I just passed an expensive antique store on Park Avenue in Manhattan. The centerpiece of the window should be of interest to ...

I'm really enjoying lime juice in my bottled lager again. Lager and Lime! Yes! Its a proper blast from the citric past, which I drank in...

Hello Woodsy As I sit in my living room drinking tea I read your post on Hot Chocolate.  It proved a timely reminder as on checking, suppli...

Working in winter means dark setting-offs and even darker homecomings. Its just dark in the UK. Dark dark dark. The one things that cheers m...

Its funny what comes into your head. Personally its a bonus if anything does as my memory is terrible. A recollection of a sweet drink cam...

Nothing can bring back the salty, sandy, sunny feel of my Sixties childhood holidays at the seaside like the taste of ...... lime milkshake!...

Uhhh, OK what's the stupidest thing you did recently? - for which you are not sorry in the slightest! Mine was going stupid on eBa...

I haven't seen my old Mum for 45 years. I've spent the vast majority of my life without her being around and now I'm approaching...

As a Sixties kid I drank pop. Fizzy pop.  There were tons of different kinds: Tizer, Dandelion and Burdock, Lemonade to name just t...