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Friday, 23 September 2022

CLASSIC CARS 1: WILL O'S SOUTHERN

Since posting my snaps of classics in the local car show I've had a few more sent from readers. Here goes with Will O's in southern England. That's Missus O sat down.

B O S T O N

Just enjoying some Boston after work. This is the 1976 self-titled LP I have, with the cool blue flaming red guitar-saucer cities on the cover. The art is signed Roger Huysen. Anyone know him?

I've grown to love Boston's slick sound as I've got older, especially the famous singles More then a Feeling and Don't Look Back.

But when they first showed up in the mid-Seventies I thought they were way over-produced, high-pitched and smooth, like Bread with guitars.

But my taste for heavy rock was widening around '76/77 and the breezier sounds of Stillwater, Hall and Oates, Judie Tzuke and supergroups like Toto, Foreigner and Styx began to slowly enter the stack. I even had an Eagles album. Boston was one those too.

As with many bands I liked in the 70's I didn't persist with them into the 80's so Boston's Third Stage LP passed me by. I've never heard it. Have you? I do like the cover. It looks like one of the saucer cities from the first cover rising from [or descending onto] that Imperial Cruiseresque ship. What do you think?

Did and do you like Boston?

SUPERSONICO SCOUT 2

Whenever I see this old French space plane I always think of my beloved Scout 2 from the Project SWORD toy range.

Do you have either of these?

Thursday, 22 September 2022

Blue Spirit

I love this Spirit of America toy! Do you?

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Wednesday, 21 September 2022

MR. LUNDBY LIES DOWN

I had to chuckle at this online picture of a vintage Lundby doll reclining in his gaff. it reminded me of me after work! Not sure what's on TV but it could be Space 1999! Or is it a cat?

FLYING SAUCERS ON MY TONGUE!

I ate a flying saucer today.

My first in decades, probably the Seventies!

The school librarian gave it me.

What a blast from the past. A wafer coat with a sour centre. Blimey. That tangy papery taste memory came flooding back!

They were never my fave sweet as a kid. I couldn't eat a whole bag full but as an occasional saucer they were fine in between sweet tobacco and chocolate chewing nuts.

Do and did you like flying saucers from the sweet shop readers?

ARCO, SNAKES AND THE OTHER WORLD

As a kid I would have loved Arco toys. They released some great quirky stuff in the 80's.

This Skull full of Snakes is just brilliant! A Halloween special if ever there was one. Snakes on a brain!

and I love these fighting Glowgons. I've only ever seen the little purple fellas before, I found one on a car boot sale. The red and green creatures are superb, as is that great looking dragon. I imagine that this was Arco's shot at the whole Sword and Sorcery/ fantasy sub-genre. Not bad methinks.

The Other World, I want to go! Do you?