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Thursday, 2 April 2026

Godspeed Artemis II

Artemis II has lifted off.

And what a fantastic sight it was!

Did you see it readers?

Are you excited about NASA's new flight, which will take the four astronauts to the mysterious dark side of the moon?

🌒

In Search of Rodney

I've been browsing through my copy of In Search of Forever, a biographical gallery of Rodney Matthew's work.

I adored Rodney's work in the Seventies and had posters up in my flat. I still have the Giant Wasp.

A sort of alchemy between Roger Dean and Rick Griffin. Rodney was one of my favourite fantasy artists back in the day and it's been a thrill looking at his paintings again.

Do you like his stuff?

Wednesday, 1 April 2026

The Capgun Plane.

Woodsy.

This turned up the other day. It's a capgun in the shape of a P47 Thunderbolt. Only 8 shillings and 11 pence! A Bargain!

Will O

Captions Needed!

So what exactly is this bot saying down the phone?

Your fools day quips please!

To promote their various products – Meccano engineering sets, Hornby model railways, and Dinky Toys - Meccano Limited published their own monthly magazine. Called Meccano Magazine, it ran from 1916 until 1981, although in later years it was published by other concerns, and turned in to a more general hobbies magazine for boys.

Apart from its main job of promoting Meccano, it also carried advertising for other companies. Some of these had nothing to do with toys or hobbies.

Copies of Meccano Magazine can be found on a site called the Internet Archive, which is a great source of reference material. While not all years are complete, there is plenty of interest in the issues from the 1950s and 1960s.

I was recently going through some of the back numbers, and found this vintage Father's Day ad in the June 1965 issue. Do you think your Father would have been happy to receive an Ocelot Steering Wheel Glove for Father's Day one year ?

Good grief !

Paul Adams from New Zealand