BOB IS BRITISH - AND PROUD OF IT...

The shilling, also called the 'bob' still exists in its decimal equivalent today - namely, the 5 pence piece.  This set by COINCRAFT displays six incarnations of the British 'bob' down through the decades.  These half-dozen coins add up to only 30 pence in decimal money, or 72 pennies in £sd.  (Sounds better, doesn't it?)

(In the above scan, some of the coins seem a little 'toned', but that's not how they look 'in the flesh'.  As you can see from their reverse sides below.)

BABE Of The DAY - DALIAH LAVI...

DALIAH LAVI cracks a smile on seeing

me prancing about in my big underpants.  Hey,

don't laugh - not everyone wears big underpants

because they've got a big bum.  I wear them for an

altogether different reason.  (Yup, you guessed

it - I'm wearing them over my head.)

CRIVENS' CLASSIC COMIC COVERS: SILVER SURFER #1 (ONE-SHOT)...

Image copyright MARVEL COMICS

Ah, the memories associated with this impressive comic cover come flooding back to me on sight of it.  I actually purchased two copies (still got them) from, I think, the VIRGIN MEGASTORE in Glasgow.  Then I bought two JIM REEVES LPs from the HMV store just along from it.  (Or maybe I got them in the reverse order to how I've just described.)  Then I leapt on the train home, examining my new acquisitions all the way.  I still have one of the Jim Reeves LPs, the other I later gave to a record shop as I already had the U.K. version, having bought the second copy simply because it was the U.S. release and had a different sleeve.

Y'know, it really only seems like a very short time ago rather than the 35 years it actually is.  I find it hard to get my head around that sometimes.  Anyway, I know none of you are bothered with all that, but what memories, if any, does this cosmic cover conjure up in your mind when you look at it?  Relive them in our comments section and compare notes with your Criv-ite chums.