With the Missus and a mate, visiting my favourite vintage toy shop round here, in Kirkham Arcade in Otley, I was really pleased to bag a fe...

I so remember getting this hardback one Christmas in the late 1960's or early 70's: Supernatural Stories for Boys.  A wonderful gi...

  Googling for vintage plastic novelty toys, I was really chuffed to see my 2019 book Toy Bunnies on Plastic Scooters next to Jean Rossi...

 An impromptu trip to the bright lights of Leeds our nearest big city was a fun and festive experience yesterday, an unusual thing for us to...

Visiting my  girlfriend back in 1979, (now my Wife) in her home country of West Germany, I was fascinated, among other things, by her admira...

  I adored this isotope image as a kid. Its from a thick book of facts from the Sixties called What do You Know. There was just something ab...

New Zealand charity shops are not the wonderful palaces of rare and wonderful things that they are in Britain. However, there is one that is...

 It maybe a while before our new PM has a cabinet reshuffle but mine was accelerated by the arrival of three men of action. A few hours sort...

 Some images from one of my favourite childhood encyclopedias, What do you Know. I managed to find it again at a boot sale. Heaven in pages!...

I'm seeing lots of influences here. Seems to depend on the year these books were reissued. There's even this pair of LPs from 1974. ...