On a frosty day trip to the Peak town of Buxton nestled betwixt snowy hills the Missus and me mooched among the many charity shops. Prices o...

In 1980/81 I worked and lived on an RSPB nature reserve, where in the winter evenings I listened to the BBC radio serial of Lord of the Ring...

 My latest interest (read obsession!) are American Radio ring premiums from the 1940's and 50's. True objects of desire, here's ...

The Clock is considered to be the first masked comic hero to appear in American comics in the Golden Age. He was created by George Brenner. ...

A while back we were discussing the possible ID of a mystery red plastic box. Turns out it was this. https://images.app.goo.gl/DfmdRpkucy6TU...

 There are plenty of old radios online to admire. Here's two spacey ones that caught my ear. This satellite-like fellow has a clip-on al...

Here is a You Tube video featuring some novelty merchandise.  A beer bottle that is actually a torch; a Heinz Tomato Ketchup bottle that is ...

Reader EW recently mentioned his old mix tapes t'other day and it reminded me of making my own tapes back in the early Seventies on my r...

hi Woodsy, Have you seen heard of this? On You Tube. I found it a while ago and just got round to playing it, I remember recording it fr...

In 1970 a couple of schlockers were screened as a grisly double at cinemas in the States in American cinemas.   Now enjoying a cult fol...

I've been boning up on more Super Hero rings. I dunno, I'm just attracted to these small things and thats despite not wearing any j...

At some pint this year someone mentioned the Luxembourg Dan Dare lost radio series. I think it was reader Terranova47. If like me you are ...

I like this vintage Tandy flying saucer I saw on an online auction. Its a radio!  You turn the clear dome to tune it! Made in Korea and...

Woodsy I don't know if you listened to the Goons on the radio, or for that matter know that some of the stories were re-recor...

The box art of this auctioned Young World walkie talkie set caught my eye. Its not often you see a Saturn V and its MLP on toy box...

I remember this radio from the Seventies. A Snoopy-like hound with a woolly hat and a plastic strap. For some reason I thought ...

Just to let you know that Squaring the Circle has a creepy Halloween story read immaculately by Christopher Ross from New York. The s...

When I was a wee lad in the Sixties I was monsterized. While playing with my Project SWORD, Major Mat Mason, Lite Brite, Action Man and ...