MOONBASE CENTRAL

Friday, 23 October 2020

LEVIMOON

I thought this was pretty cool, a levitating moon lamp!

PTERANODON MYSTERY

This is an interesting but mysterious artifact I got at a car boot.

A small plastic toy Pteranodon.

It opens to reveal a leaflet about its wingspan.

Anyone ever seen it before?

Thursday, 22 October 2020

THE HAND OF GOD

My fave new space pic is this, the Hand of God. How cool is that!

Its a Pulsar 17,000 light years distant. It was first seen in 1982.

TWO MUD BUTTIES PLEASE!

Its funny what you remember. As I start to peer down a sixty year old barrel my mind wanders back to childhood as if I'm skipping down our old ginnel again.

I had a mock kitchen when I was a kid, a sort of ramshackle lean-to tacked onto the back of my Dad's garage. I can't remember if it was a proper add-on or just a shanty thing my Dad made for me. It had windows I know that.

The cooking facilities comprised largely of a long work surface and a small 'cooker' made from an iron fire grate, which I put pans on. No flames were ever lit. It was all pretend and the menu featured mostly mud pies and butties, which I prepared with fresh ingredients on the counter.

There's something very pleasing about mud, especially making it. For some reason adding a little water to soil creates a thick creamy black chocolate paste worthy of Cadburys. I loved messing with mud back in the Sixties and made hundreds of sarnies for anyone who wanted to join in the play.

The bread slices were leaves. I must have stripped my Mum's variegated hollies down to the chlorophyll as I provided the whole house with plentiful rounds of sloppy sandwiches.

At some point the mud dried up. I put my big wooden spoon down for the last time and sadly my shanty kitchen was closed forever.

And yet the spirit of mud cooking lives on and my Grandson, Moonbase Junior, now has his own mud kitchen. Things have progressed since my day. Junior's hob is a pre-fabricated professional plaything bought on Amazon and delivered to the door, complete with pans and everything.

I've yet to sample Junior's mud menu but here's a pic of something like his kitchen.

Did you make mud pies and butties readers?

TOKYO GHOSTS 3

Hi Woodsy,

Next pair of Hot Wheels Tokyo 2020 models.

Seventh model is Sky Dome, which has the copyright date 2016 on its base, even though it was part of the 2017 range. Various shades of purple, with red and pink stripes. Smoke grey windows. White printing. Silver wheels. Basketball.

Ninth model is Velocita, dated 2014. The Hot Wheels Wiki entry for this model incorrectly gives the main colour as black, but I have the model in front of me as I write, and it is metallic dark blue, with blue stripes, and blue tinted windows. White and blue printing. Silver wheels. Swimming.

As you can see, there are some rather odd colour choices in the series, with lots of pink and purple. I will send further photographs if I find any more models in the set.

Yours Sincerely,

Paul Adams from New Zealand