My Granddaughter just gone to an evening dance class. I was never one for clubs and classes. No cubs, scouts, adventure scouts, football, b...

I remembered the other day that I had cornflakes as a kid with .... Hot milk!  The memory came flooding back. The milk was creamy too and he...

 Memory is like a baking soda diver, sometimes stubbornly staying under, sometimes rising madly in the bubbles. As I get older my diver pref...

I couldn't believe my eyes down at Farmfoods. There in the frozen food compartment was a pile of Steak Canadian! Those flat wafer-thin s...

 It's true. You can't possibly have everything as a kid. I had my eye on something my cousin Andy had. He'd got it from a relati...

 The good news is .... My mate Mark has saved Christmas!  The darn plumbers never showed to fix their mistakes but Mark grabbed his tool bag...

Was it Christmas when you got your new toys as a kid? It was for me. OK, there was a slow drip of gifts and impulse buys throughout the year...

If there was one toy I could take to Mars it would be Mattel's Captain Lazer. With his Leonard Nimoy looks and glam rock boots the ...

 Memories are like ghosts. Ghostly.  Wispy. Fuzzy. I have such a memory of one Christmas in the late Sixties or early Seventies, when the fa...

 I remember these from the Seventies. I saw them in bookshops back then. My memory was jogged by a modern monotone reprint of Skinhead I saw...

As things biuld up steadily towards Halloween here in Blighty, what with the shop aisles brim full of witches, ghouls and zombies, I've ...

  I wouldn't take it to Titan but I'd have it the day before I left. A blast from the past, Mr. Brain's Pork Faggots, found in t...

Here's a late summer pic of my old pops reading in the back garden. No idea what though.  I think the object on the floor next to the ch...

 I remember Sundays as a kid. Calm. Family coming round. Another day to carry on playing with toys. Then School, OK at first, became a drudg...

I never had a telly in my bedroom.  None of my friends did in the late Sixties/ Seventies. Up till 1970 our family TV was black and white. A...

Do you remember bike streamers like these readers? They attached to the handlebars and streamed out as you pelted down the hill on your chop...

The passing of another American icon of our childhoods, Jim Lovell, has made me nostalgic for some of the other Americans later in my life. ...

 Googling for Knights I found some I recall ( Etsy, eBay) including this Hong Kong-made plastic statuette. This could very well have been th...

Well Woodsy, I found a decent enough photo of our old ashtray. The photo dates from Christmas of 1963 and I can see where my far-less-than ...

As we are caravanning I've no access to toys so other things are filling my mind ...  Such as Beef Paste this morning for breakfast! I s...