WOTTA BARGAIN - OOR WULLIE & THE BROONS FOR ONLY £1.99...

Image copyright D.C. THOMSON & Co., Ltd

If you're quick, you may still be able to nab a copy of this £12.99 OOR

WULLIE & The BROONS book from WHS for a mere £1.99 - like I

did.!  A saving of a whopping 11 quid.  Better get your skates on.

KID CLASSICS - OLD BALLS, PLEASE...

Here's a strange little story for you concerning the item in the above ad.  I bought my one and only TONIBELL MINIBALL back around 1967 or '68.  (Hard to believe it was over 45 years ago.)  When I moved house in 1972, I was sure I'd brought it with me to my new home, but, mysteriously, I couldn't find it.  I'd kept it behind the water tank up in the attic, and I was sure I'd retrieved it the night before moving, but - search as I might in our new abode - it was nowhere to be found.

Over the years, I'd regularly have dreams in which I'd find myself back in my old house, searching for my trusty pal from childhood.  Anyway, to cut a long story short, 19 years later I decided to determine its fate once and for all, and managed to gain access to my old house and attic - and was overjoyed (if flabbergasted) to discover my little yellow Miniball exactly where I'd left it so many years before - completely untouched.  So, not only was I the last person to see it back in 1972, but also the first to clap eyes on it again in 1991.  Strangely, the 24 years that have elapsed since I retrieved it don't seem a fraction of the time it lay undiscovered and neglected behind the water tank.

And guess what?  I've never had those dreams again since that day I finally solved the mystery of the disappearing little yellow ball.

Photo taken on June 9th 1991, before I removed the ball from where
it had lain ever since I'd flitted from the house on June 14th 1972