The other day I picked up a battered Corgi Batmobile in Wetherby for £1.
Thursday, 8 February 2024
THE SHARP KNIGHT
WITHOUT A TRACY: ARTO'S MYSTERY ALAN TRACY GLOVE PUPPET
ED's TIN: USAF North American YF-93A - Maybe?
THAT ILK OF TOY
A recent rendezvous with the daughter in the picturesque moorland town of Ilkley generated a few old morsels to chew over in the choice Charities before we chomped on proper muffins at Betty's cafe.
This TOMY Magic Sketcher from 1986 was a new one on me and first impressions looked like a Lite Brite variant but its not.
I imagine childhood chocolate bars and sweets have disappeared all over the world. I miss Aztec a lot! Which ones would you bring back?
FURRED TEETH: THE AHI DENTIST BEAR
Wednesday, 7 February 2024
Tuesday, 6 February 2024
The Cottingley Fairies
Today we drove through Cottingley near Bradford. I instantly recognized the name from reading about it as a kid in my massive Readers Digest book of myths and legends of Britain, which I adored and still have. Do you, did you have it too?
Cottingley was famous for fairies. Photographs of them. Five.
They were taken over a hundred years ago by two youngsters and became world-wide sensations. You might say they went viral.
Only 70 years later did the youngsters admit they were fake. However, the fifth one, continued to be deemed genuine.
See what you think. Here's an original set that sold at Sotherby's. The fifth photo is the last [images: Sotherby's].
I couldn't believe we were in Cottingley 50 years after I first read about it's fairies. Such a small world of time and place.
Johnny Lemon: Another Squeeze
This old lemon bottle reminded me how I used to do up Johnny Sevens.
These empty plastic lemon juices made ideal replacements for the top of one the Johnny Sevens missiles.
Have you any parts replacement hacks?
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