Continuing our sporadic glimpse into cut-away models is this tall statue.
It's at the entrance to Yorkshire Sculpture Park near Moonbase Central.
Sadly, after nearly 10 years Wotan and I have decided we can no longer continue making the SWORDcast on Celtica Radio. Its been a year since we released the last one and now is the time to call it a day.
We are both sad about this but what with Covid and growing families and a few other bits of life in general it became increasingly difficult to find the time and space to make the show.
When Bill Everatt, Celtica's Station Manager, approached us all those years ago, Wotan and I were both complete novices at radio but with Bill's patient guidance we began to feel at home behind the mic and make half-hour radio shows that we thought were fun. They were certainly fun to make and Bill produced them all brilliantly, adding his own fabulous ingredients which gave the show a proper identity with a themed intro and artwork!
The SWORDcast also lead to both Wotan and I writing and narrating our own radio dramas, which was a great privilege and all thanks to the encouragement of Dave Carrington and his Squaring the Circle show.
Thanks to everyone who listened to our efforts on the radio over the years and we very much appreciate the encouragement we received from listeners and Moonbase readers.
Since turning off our mics both Wotan and I have received very kind feedback from both Bill Ev our mentor and producer and also from Dave Cook, the founding Director of Celtica Radio, for which we are exceptionally grateful. It was a real privilege to have been part of the Celtica radio family. We would like to thank them all.
Interestingly the main online outfits for Supermarionation all do podcasts now but I think we may have got there first! You never know, we may have started a trend!
Thanks everyone.
Talking Pictures TV looks good again tonight.
From 8pm continuously:
I was keen to jazz-up another Batmobile after my last two.
This Corgi Junior did the trick this week.
Before
I saw this Skyship 1 online in Japan and had to blog it. I mean, wow, it even lights up!
Have you got a fave Skyship 1 collectable or story?
I have an oldish plastic red Hot Wheels car. The other day I picked up what I think is another more recent gold one. Is it plastic? What's the score with Hot Wheels and plastic bodies? Are they unusual?
I have just fired up my laptop again after a gap of 5 weeks to do some blogging. Its taken at least 25 minutes to start itself up and is chugging and buffering as if its having to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Klingon before it starts.
Its such a complete pain in the arsch.
This is in complete contrast to my new smartphone, which is an absolute breeze and worked instantly and perfectly every time I used it abroad this past month. It fires up in a milli-second. There is no wait at all. Its just small.
So I have to ask myself - apart from Apple and it's iPad tablet - why don't mobile phone companies simply make a version of a smartphone that's much bigger and folds in the middle like a laptop.
A lap-phone?
