I've been browsing through Classic Plastic, the modelling reference book and drooling over the surfing kits like Hawks There's a fe...

Here are a few slang words and activities I've dragged up from the chlorinated deep end of my Youth in the Sixties and Seventies. You...

  Me and the Missus watched the modern movie ELVIS last night, which we enjoyed.  The leading man playing the King was simply amazing. O Huh...

I'm familiar with SNAFU; less so with FUGAZI and have no idea what a word I recently keep seeing on eBay means: SOFUBI. Any ideas?

Further to your recent comments on the meaning of the word Vintage, here are a couple of die-cast model cars from my collection. The red She...

I was looking through some of your old posts, on Odd Words, especially those relating to vehicles. One term that has always struck me as str...

Further to the comments on the word Vintage earlier. The Vintage Sports Car Club was established in Britain in 1934. They defined a Vin...

You mentioned the word Vintage recently. Max from Max's Models in the US saw a 1980's car with Antique car number plates. It seems t...

Recently I was talking about He-Man toys from the Eighties to a mate and he said 'they're not vintage!' My mate is in his mid-fi...

Here's some modern words which are either meaningless, elusive or just plain annoying. Again, no googling or dictionaries involved. Pack...

The first real oxymoron I was aware of was cold fire in David Bowie's Prettiest Star. But there are loads in common speech. Have a gande...

What does OOAK mean in the world of collecting? I've just had to look it up! Now I know. Do you readers?

I was thinking about how I used to copy cassette tapes for my friends back in the day. I used tape to tape on my Matsui cassette player. Her...

Watching toddler Moonbase grandson grow up is full of humour. His way of saying things is just wonderful and amusing. here are a few of hi...

Its been a year of new thingies. New words and idea thingies. Some have been received from the distant past and some from modern yo...

Continuing the blog's occasional look at youth culture, here are a few more words from my own youth in Lancashire in the Sixties. Rather...

So readers, the third Sunday of Advent is wending its way towards us. We still haven't trimmed up at Moonbase as extra-Lunar duties keep...

Leafing through my beloved Toys of the Sixties book by Bill Bruegman I realise that there are quite a few American words I don't really ...

I heard a schoolkid say the phrase mental brain today. The word mental was being used an adjective. I had to think about this. Can the ...

I've just attended a training course. Yes, after work training, which you could do without. One of the annoying things about traini...