tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post9066619132017899475..comments2024-03-27T12:09:07.950+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN YESTERYEAR...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-62280681896132974762016-09-11T01:05:19.159+01:002016-09-11T01:05:19.159+01:00It's always applicable to people of a certain ...It's always applicable to people of a certain age, JP. Just about everyone grows into it.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-26720368852834067052016-09-11T00:36:05.772+01:002016-09-11T00:36:05.772+01:00That statement from the Likely Lads has never been...That statement from the Likely Lads has never been more true than now, in these times!John Pitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08035300858247327343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-73729083150458203092016-09-07T21:19:10.128+01:002016-09-07T21:19:10.128+01:00Track down a replacement on eBay and reunite with ...Track down a replacement on eBay and reunite with your youth.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-87021501778462298252016-09-07T20:42:01.748+01:002016-09-07T20:42:01.748+01:00Naaa and I should have kept it. Naaa and I should have kept it. Phil Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-86342421301129224202016-09-07T07:01:01.575+01:002016-09-07T07:01:01.575+01:00So you've still got the bicycle, Phil?So you've still got the bicycle, Phil?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-43438165591952591702016-09-07T04:40:17.317+01:002016-09-07T04:40:17.317+01:00My old Raleigh bicycle reminds me I used to ride t...My old Raleigh bicycle reminds me I used to ride to the newsagent and pick up my weekly comics. Plus an occasional ice cream.Phil Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-68154038886058334692016-09-06T12:59:36.603+01:002016-09-06T12:59:36.603+01:00One may exist somewhere, OD, so have a go at track...One may exist somewhere, OD, so have a go at tracking one down. I remember seeing (but not buying) the Airfix kit of James Bond & Oddjob in a shop called (of all things) The Garden Pet Shop back in the '60s. Can't think of one without thinking of the other. Airfix reissued it back around 1999, but it was in a different box. I've got pictures of the original 'though, and will make a facsimile one day. (When I get around to building the model.)Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-7796935001207530912016-09-06T12:46:01.576+01:002016-09-06T12:46:01.576+01:00For me, it's Airfix kits that conjour up chil...For me, it's Airfix kits that conjour up childhood rather than comics - which conjour up unromantic RS MColls. But Airgix kits and their classic box art take me right back to John Brownlee's toyshop in Cambuslang. All my kits, all my toy guns and caps came from here. First place I was ever such a regular customer that I could get things on tick and pay later - Revell's 1/48 scale F14 Tomcat! Here I bought my Dinkys and Corgis. Happy days. I wish I had a picture of the place!Oscar Dowsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12643795090397551437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-53307962743042160022016-09-06T11:51:15.959+01:002016-09-06T11:51:15.959+01:00It's amazing that certain things have the powe...It's amazing that certain things have the power to transport our minds back to the times (and sometimes even the moment) that we bought them, isn't it, PC? I've got loads of things like that, in some cases the originals, in others, replacements (not that it seems to affect the effect), and as I've said many a time before, after burying my head in a book or comic, I find myself momentarily surprised when I look up from the pages and find myself NOT in the room or house I lived in when I first read it. Strange, eh?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-24740452370382148572016-09-06T11:41:35.696+01:002016-09-06T11:41:35.696+01:00For me it would be issue 5 of the Silver Surfer. O...For me it would be issue 5 of the Silver Surfer. On browsing through the self same issue (not a reprint) I am instantly transported back to the early 70s and it's as if I am seated on the floor of the second-hand book shop again leafing through the pages prior to handing over the coins to pay for it. One of the clearest memories I have from the days of my youth in terms of purchases. A close runner up would be my first book on Horror Movies, a thick hardback by Carlos Clarens (still in pretty good nick considering its age now, as it sits on the shelf behind me as I type). It being my first ever hardcover book aquisition makes it doubly memorable. Took me ages before I could take more than a fleeting look at the picture of Lon Chaney as the Phantom - one scary face to the younger me. I'm sure there are more but these two spring readily to mind for transporting me back to their places of purchase.Philip Crawleynoreply@blogger.com