MOONBASE CENTRAL

Monday, 22 April 2019

MOONBASE COFFEE

Easter table's set for coffee and cake.

Just need people now.

You comin'?

Bunny's Got a Brand New Car

Easter Bunny just parked up in his Matchbox Ford GT.

Hoppin'!

Full Moon over Misty Pines

Hi Woodsy.

This is a view of the "Pink Moon" from my front and back yard.

Wouldn't want to be caught without a silver bullet that night.

AWOOOO!

BrianF

NJ USA

PS. From Woodsy:

Several people like Brian have mentioned the Pink Moon to me over Easter.

Did you see it?

ROLLING EGGS DOWN GRASSY SLOPES

Egg rolling on Easter Monday was a big thing when I was a kid in the Sixties.

In our town, Preston, Lancashire, it all happened on Avenham Park back then, a lovely large park with flatlands and big grassy slopes perfect for egg rolling.

The whole family would go along with hundreds of others and spend the day there. Toys were taken too and I even took my Kendo bamboo swords to play fight with my brothers with one year.

I have no footage of those special Easter Mondays on Avenham Park in the late Sixties and early seventies but luckily enough other people did film their happy times and some of it has found its way onto You Tube. Its a very old custom there, egg rolling, and there's even film from 1901 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fDqH15n2iU

Here's one family's very evocative film from my own childhood decade. Though not mine, my own family could well have been there that Monday, which is quite a touching thought for me, as those where the best years, when my parents were young and healthy and we were just kids, who's job was just having fun!

Did you/ do you have an Easter ritual like egg rolling readers?

ITS EASTER MONDAY!

A basket of Easter bunnies has taken over Moonbase!

Enjoy your Easter Monday Readers.

Don't each TOO much chocolate!

Sunday, 21 April 2019

TV FOG

Its Easter night and after a long Easter weekend away with family the Missus and me are back home and quite knackered as they say in the horse trade.

There were no collectables to be had to be honest I wasn't looking. We did go to a garage sale, which is an unusual thing I think here in northern England. It was a huge sale spilling out of the garage and into a very large yard. Mostly gardening implements and books, there was nothing to take my fancy.

I did heft a long plastic toy sword in a toy shop looking for last minute Easter nik naks for our Grandson. It was fun to draw it from its long scabbard like I would have done in the Sixties as a Knight-mad kid. I adored wearing my plastic silver breastplate, wearing my knight's helmet and brandishing a huge toy broadsword in the garden! Somewhere I have a photo of part of this get up.

Easter always make me think of old TV as it was on Easter Monday that we watched Disneytime at 6pm. Do you remember it?

Lost in time now, there are a couple more TV programmes which seem to be just stirrings in the mists of my memory.

One was something called UFO Milton Keynes or something like that. I can't recall a thing about this programme. Milton Keynes was a new town in England, made from scratch last century I think. I visited it when I was studying urban conservation as it was a modern example of how to manage green corridors for wildlife in towns. I imagine the UFO idea came from the fact that it was brand a brand new town. There may have been a large pyramid involved too.

Another TV programme I can't remember was something like A Weekend in the Country or similar. It was about a group of town lads maybe from Liverpool who were taken to North Wales, I think, on a weekend stay in a log cabin or chalet. they were out of their element and I'm pretty sure one of them fed a Blackbird chick some Mars Bar!

Do these ring any bells?

I'm sure there are more swirls in my TV fog but that's it for now.

Happy Easter Monday to come!