A 'FANTASTIC' REPAIR JOB?

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Assuming that any of you are even remotely interested in this, I thought I'd show you the work I did on my damaged The COMPLETE JOHNNY FUTURE volume I received yesterday.  I'll show the previous pics I took of its imperfections alongside my 'repairs', which I decided to undertake as REBELLION didn't reply to my emails about a replacement.  (Which is an unlikely possibility as they're now out of stock.)  I knew that my options were limited as the interior damaged areas were too prominent to just 'paint' over, so I took the decision to cover them.

I ironed out the crease of the folded-under corner (after unfolding it and pasting it into its proper position, and then applied a name label over it to cover the offending flaw.  On the opposite page, I removed as much of the superfluous glue and card-fluff as I could, then pasted a picture of the cover to FANTASTIC #1 over the area, which I thought was a nice nod to the strip's origins.

As for the dunts on the cover, I repaired the back one (not shown) quite easily with the careful application of a hot iron over a double-sheet of brown paper, then did the same for the one on the front.  You can still see a hint of it in the 'after' photo below, but thankfully it's far less prominent than it was.  (And it's almost invisible in the pic that heads this post.)

Obviously, I'd have much preferred not to have had to do anything, but the book is now 'personalised' and, cosmetically, far better than the state it was in when I received it.  I can no longer return it to Rebellion, but I'll be contacting them about a partial refund to take account of it being damaged - before and after it left their warehouse.  The copy I ordered from AMAZON is scheduled to turn up tomorrow and hopefully it'll be perfect, which means I'll have a pristine copy, as well as a reading copy.  It's such a good book that I may even buy a third copy.

Have you got yours yet?  It's still available as a digital download, though I prefer the print version.

(Update: Rebellion have now been in touch, so I'll keep you informed of what happens.  Watch this space.  Oh, and they'll be replenishing their stock of the book soon.)

JOHNNY FUTURE TAKES MAIL ORDER A GIANT STEP BACKWARDS...

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Received my brand-new The COMPLETE JOHNNY FUTURE hardback book from REBELLION's TREASURY Of BRITISH COMICS today, and immediately felt my heart sink when I saw the dunted corners on the thin and flimsy cardboard envelope it came in.  As I'd suspected, two corners were noticeably dunted, and I feel it should behove Rebellion to send their books in sturdier protective cardboard mailers to prevent this kind of damage.

However, there was worse to come.  When I opened the cover, the two facing pages of the double-page 'frontispiece' were stuck together at the corners, and when I managed to separate them, it was only to discover that the corner of the board page was folded underneath and stuck to the board.  It was quite a large area of around two and a half by one and a half inches, so it's not exactly a minor fault.

What's worse, although I contacted Rebellion immediately, I notice that the book is now listed as being out of stock, so I ordered another one from AMAZON.  Thing is, it was always my intention to buy two copies, so I still need a replacement for the damaged one.  I've had a few problems before with the way Rebellion wrap their books, what with corners of softcovers being bent backwards or edges peeling away from the cover after catching on the opening of their thin cardboard envelopes while being placed inside.

It's a shame, because the overall standard of their books is otherwise excellent, but they need to lift their game when it comes to quality-control and using packaging that's fit for purpose.  Anyway, this book is one to have, so if you can find a copy, buy it immediately and hope you don't encounter any of the problems that I did.  I should add that Rebellion usually do their best to rectify such matters, but given my level of disappointment in receiving yet another damaged book from them, I wish they'd focus on ensuring that these kind of things didn't happen to begin with.

However, to end on a positive note, top marks to Rebellion for the nostalgic nod to the POWER COMIC symbol on the cover.

(Update: I should add that Rebellion now send me any books I order in far sturdier packaging and are extremely quick in replacing any that have slipped through the net with flaws or imperfections, so well done them.)

REVISITING The WIZARD... (Updated)

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Well, here's a scan of the finished results of my colouring job on the WIZARD Of ID strip (seen in the previous post) which I said I was having a go at.  The printout looks much smoother than this scan would have you believe, and I've managed to make the new copy (shortly going up on my bedroom wall) the exact same size as the original dull greyscale one it'll be replacing.

I used acrylic inks to colour the strip, but one of the drawbacks of this medium is that it can obscure linework in places, so I had to re-ink quite a few outlines in order to make them more visible.  The size of the copy (approximately 8 inches by 4) hides a multitude of sins, so I'm reasonably pleased with my efforts.  One thing's for sure, it's far cleaner than the greyscale version, so that's a plus at least.  (Update: I've now done a little more work on the master copy and replaced both versions of the strip seen in the earlier incarnation of this post.)

I took the liberty of straightening the title, and created a new 'Publishers Newspaper Syndicate, 1966' line in the same-sized font as the original (which was a bit smudged and faint) and applied it over the existing line.  On last thing - the colour of the sky in all three panels of the last tier are distinctly different from one another in my master copy (below), but have been rendered kind of 'samey' in the above printout.

Well, everything considered, I think it's not too bad - what say the rest of you?

WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD...

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A peculiar thing about US newspaper comic strips is that some American papers allocate different room for strips than others, so how a strip appears in one daily periodical may differ from another.  Because of this, some strips are produced with an extra tier (padding, in effect) that often has no direct bearing to the rest of the strip and can therefore be omitted if lack of space requires it, without affecting the story or the punchline.

Strips featuring (but not confined to) HANNA- BARBERA characters were prone to this, as anyone who has ever read the excellent YOWP blog will have seen before now.  For years, I'd always thought that the WIZARD Of ID strip below was how it was originally drawn, but as you can see from the above version which I've only just discovered, it initially had three extra panels (including the logo) of which I was unaware for around 48 years.

The one shown below is a greyscale reproduction from The PENGUIN BOOK Of COMICS of a colour version, but I've no way of knowing if the same colour scheme was followed in each presentation.  At the moment, I'm recolouring a 'bleached' printout of the greyscale incarnation, but I won't be slavishly following the colour one above.  When it's finished I'll post it on the blog for all you cavortin' Crivs to cop a gander at.

Why am I going to all the bother?  Well, a copy of the greyscale version has been on my wall for around 43 or 44 years now (though I scanned and replaced it with a cleaned up printout a couple or so years back), and I just thought it would make my room a little brighter if it was in colour (and the colour one above isn't quite clean or sharp enough for the purpose).  Anyway, enjoy what I think is one of the funniest cartoon strips ever created.

And, as I suspected, the top colour version has been re-jigged to accommodate a different sized space.  Below is how it was originally laid out so that that the removal of the top tier would make it of more manageable dimensions for some newspapers.

VAN DER VALK AT EYE LEVEL...

Photo by TERRY O'NEILL

Hey, where on earth does the time go?  In 1991-'92, VAN der VALK, starring BARRY FOSTER as the Dutch detective, was revived for two new series of two-hour episodes, and to me, it seemed like an inordinate amount of time had passed since the third of the original three series was last seen (repeats aside) on TV back in 1977.  (The first two series of one hour episodes were broadcast in 1972 and '73.)  So 14 years had elapsed, and because I hadn't seen the show since I was a teenager, it felt like quite a significant proportion of my life.

The '91-'92 series still seems relatively recent to me, so the realisation that it's nearly 30 years ago is a real punch in the gut.  Hell's bells, I'm ancient.  And now the series is back, starring MARC WARREN, but location aside, feels and looks nothing like the original version.  Reports in some newspapers claimed that the original theme had been jettisoned, but there's actually a hint of it intertwined with the new one.  I watched the first episode but wasn't too impressed, and I couldn't help thinking it's a shame Barry Foster wasn't still around to play the current incarnation's father, which would've given the new show a bit of much-needed authenticity.

It's not a new idea.  Apparently, when IAN OGILVY took on the role of The SAINT back in the late '70s, LEW GRADE approached ROGER MOORE to play his father, the original SIMON TEMPLAR, who would've appeared at the beginning and ending of each episode.  (So Ogilvy would have been Son of The Saint, which was the proposed title had Lew been able to persuade big Rog to return.)  Roger knocked it back, reportedly on the grounds that his then current commitment to the BOND franchise wouldn't facilitate his involvement, but I suspect he just didn't want to risk compromising the public's acceptance of him as 007.

Anyway, I'll give the new incarnation another go, though the shadow of Barry Foster looms large, but full credit to Marc Warren for being brave enough to try stepping into Foster's shoes.  And remember, Van der Valk is a policeman so that's mighty big shoes to fill.  Whether he succeeds or not remains to be seen.

Anyone remember the original show?  I know that many Crivs of a certain age will readily recall the theme tune, EYE LEVEL, by The SIMON PARK ORCHESTRA, but what about the show itself?  Any reminiscences you'd care to share will be made very welcome in the comments section, so get those typing fingers out now.     

WHAT ARE WE GONNA GET 'ER INDOORS...?

A whopping 37 years ago I bought the above single.  There was a jump in it, but for some now forgotten reason I didn't take it back to the shop from which I'd purchased it, but sent it back to the record company with a cover note explaining the problem.  It occurred to me at the time to retain the picture cover just in case they sent me a record back without it, but then I thought that they'd surely replace like with like - that would be the correct thing to do.

How wrong can a fella be?!  The replacement, when it arrived, was inside a plain white sleeve and I must admit that I felt a bit cheated.  Anyway, I've still got that original replacement single, but recently I saw one with the cover as I first had it on eBay, and bought it.  The photo above is not the actual one I bought (mine is in slightly better condition - I hope), but it will do to illustrate this post as the one winging its way to me even as I type was pictured at an angle in its eBay listing and didn't meet my photo requirements.

When it arrives I'll make a duplicate of the cover for my original record and thereby turn the clock back to 1983 (sort of).  Okay, so then I'll have two copies of this record, but I can live with that as I own numerous items of which I have more than one.  (It's always good to have a spare.)  I always get a buzz from making things as they were or as they should be, especially when it takes decades as it feels like finally fulfilling some unfinished task in some way.  Okay, okay, that's maybe overstating the case, but I trust you know what I mean.

Some of you are probably wondering why I'd choose this as a subject to blog about - would anyone really be interested in reading this kind of self-indulgent pish?  I'm sure you'll let me know, but when one runs a blog, one feels a responsibility to provide something to read for those inquisitive souls who visit regularly in the hope of filling a few spare moments in their day.  I may not always hit the mark, but you've gotta give me credit for trying - though money would be better, so feel free to send as much as you can afford.  (Don't panic - only joshing with ya!)

And whaddya know?!  I've just learned they performed it on TOP Of The POPS, so that's it below.  (The volume of George Cole's mic seems to be a bit low though.)

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DOCTOR WHO MAGAZINE #551

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Former Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies and Steven Moffat interview each other in issue #551. Other highlights include: • Extended Production Notes from current showrunner Chris Chibnall • Composer Segun Akinola reveals his inspirations for the Series 12 soundtrack • Out of the TARDIS with Neil Gaiman answers questions from the TARDIS tin • The Fact of Fiction on The Caves of Androzani • A tribute to the late David Collings • Doctor Who Lockdown • A look at Birth of a Renegade, a short Doctor Who story from the Radio Times 20th Anniversary Special • A review of the Doctor Who: The Collection – Season 14 Blu-ray box set • A round-up of how Series 12 performed in the ratings • Part Three of The Piggybackers, a new comic-strip adventure.

Available now!

£5.99.

WHEN SUGAR WASN'T A DIRTY WORD...

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Remember the 1969 song 'SUGAR SUGAR' by The ARCHIES?  In 1977, the famous HONEY MONSTER released a cover version of it, but don't ask me what position it reached in the charts 'cos I don't have a Scooby.  (Did a quick search, but could find no info.)  I bought it though, and still have the single in the same condition as when I acquired it back in '77, cover and all.  Was doing some shifting about in one of my rooms earlier and rediscovered it in a box along with a pile of other singles, and thought you might like to see it.

SUGAR PUFFS was first launched by QUAKER OATS back in 1957 with JEREMY The BEAR as mascot, but Honey Monster replaced him around 1976/'77 (sources vary).  At first, Jeremy was a cartoon bear, but eventually a real one was used, though apparently it ripped its keeper's arm off.  That's maybe why the decision was made to bring Honey in.  The owner of the cereal - as well as its name - has changed more than once over the years, but it's reassuring to still see Honey's face staring out from the supermarket shelves whenever I'm doing my shopping (only on the servants' day off, mind) after all these years.  Long may it be so. 

And below is Honey Monster with actor HENRY McGEE (comedian BENNY HILL's sidekick) in a 1976 TV ad for Sugar Puffs, these days known as Honey Monster Wheat Puffs.  (Note that, in the ad, Jeremy The Bear still adorns the box as mascot.  That would soon change as Honey's popularity increased.)

And just in case you were wondering how the song sounded as performed by Honey Monster, below is another TV ad of an earlier 'customised' version of it, which proved so popular it led to the release of the 1977 single - though featuring the original 1969 lyrics, not the amended ones in the ad.  Catchy, eh?

YOGI AND HIS TOY LIMITED COVER GALLERY...

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YOGI And His TOY was an odd comic that lasted for 36 issues from February to October 1972, before becoming HANNA-BARBERA'S FUN TIME in November, lasting for around 6 months or so.  It was odd because it combined two different forms of storytelling; namely the use of speech balloons along with captions below the panel drawings.  The DANDY's WINKER WATSON employed the same format, but that's the only other time I recall it being done in a (then) 'modern' comic.  (The DAILY EXPRESS newspaper strip RUPERT BEAR also used lower captions, of course, but not speech balloons.)

I only have a handful of Yogi Issues, but I thought I'd show the covers anyway, just to give all you crazy Crivs an idea of what it looked like in case you missed it at the time.  As you can see, a couple of them are quite worn, as it's difficult to track down better condition copies at a reasonable price.  I doubt I'd ever bother seeking out a complete set unless I got them for a song, but it would be good to have several in sequential order and in decent condition.

As I said before in a previous post, I was probably too old (at 13) to be buying this comic, but I always found it hard to resist the lure of a new periodical and was also a big Yogi Bear fan, which was no doubt my main reasons for buying it.  The comic only had 14 pages and cost 10 pence, which despite full-colour throughout, was a tad on the expensive side.  This was doubtless to cover the cost of the alleged 'free' gift, and makes you wonder where the Trade Descriptions folk are when you need them.

Anyway, that's enough weary waffle from me - enjoy the covers.  And if you'd like to read the complete first issue, click here.

BABE Of The DAY - MARTEL MAXWELL...

Not sure what MARTEL MAXWELL is

doing in this photo, but she looks good doing it.

Maybe she's playing at BATGIRL, but if so, she

forgot to wear the mask.  (It'd be a sin to cover

her cute wee face anyway, don'tcha think?)

RETURN Of The LOOPY LAPSES In LOGIC DEPT. (Well, Have You Got Anything BETTER To Do?)

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Okay, here's the scoop.  Wicked WEASEL WILLS, while attempting to rob one of TONY STARK's factories, finds his attache case containing his IRON MAN armour and, assuming the identity of the crimson and gold Avenger, goes on a crime spree.  Tony has to resort to donning his original bulkier armour and the two do battle.  Who wins?  Well, the next issue wasn't called The Invincible Weasel Wills - if that's any clue to you.

However, it could never have happened.  Why?  Because Tony Stark always wears his chest-plate to keep his heart beating, and only the extremities of his armour are stored in his attache case, not a spare chest-piece.  Therefore, Weasel Wills would only have discovered the boots and glove-'cuffs', from which the collapsible leg and arm parts of the armour unroll, held in place to the main body by electronic magnetism.

However, with no chest-piece there'd have been no battle, because the rest of the armour would've been useless.  Sure, he could've tried blackmailing Tony over his double-identity, but any punch-ups between the two would've been somewhat lacking in the drama department.

Here's another though that occurs to me.  If Stark can't remove his chest-plate, how did he shower or bathe?  Dead skin would've built up under his chest-device in no time, and the Invincible Iron Man would doubtless have soon become known as the Extremely Odorous Iron Man.  (And all those fit burds would've steered well-clear of 'Smelly' Stark.)

And what about his 'trunks'?  Surely they're part of the chest-piece?  In all the shots of Tony Stark donning his armour, he was always pre-trunked, so how did he go to the toilet?*  Did his trunks contain a waste-disposal unit, and his chest-piece an automatic exfoliating facility that removed and destroyed dead skin?  We deserve to be told.  Or should we just do what we did as kids and ignore (if they even occurred to us) the impracticalities and impossibilities inherent in such superhero sagas?  (*You can forget about that one - I've just noticed that his trunks were drawn as a separate component when he created his new armour in TOS #48.)

Any thoughts, fellow Crivs?  The comments section awaits.  Go on - join in the fun.

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(Some of you may well be thinking "Wait a minute - doesn't it make sense that Stark would've had a spare chest piece in the event that the one he was wearing ever became damaged?"  You'd think so, but whenever that happened in those early tales, he never once thought "Must get to the spare chest-piece in my attache case!" - he always attempted to repair it or resorted to his earlier, bulkier one.  It was never established that he carried a spare one in his case, so it's therefore legitimate to conclude that he didn't.)   

THE GOODIES - GOODY-GOODY-YUM-YUM...

As I'm sure everybody will know by now, TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR from The GOODIES died on April 12th of complications from COVID-19.  He was only 79, which isn't really considered old these days, and it's a shame to think we'll never see him reunited with his two Goodies pals (GRAEME GARDEN and BILL ODDIE), or hear him again on I'M SORRY, I HAVEN'T A CLUE.

Several years back, I bought the first two DVD releases of The Goodies BBC shows, followed not long after by all the ITV episodes from when they switched broadcasters in 1980.  However, a few months ago, I purchased the boxed set of the complete BBC episodes on account of not being able to recall where I stored my earlier discs, so I've now got every Goodies episode ever made by the BBC and ITV.

I'll eventually get around to watching them, and it's good to know that, though he may no longer be with us in person, we can all still enjoy seeing Tim in all his comedic glory as one third of one of the most fondly regarded and remembered comedy shows ever seen on British TV.  If you were a fan of the show back in the day, I'd eagerly recommend you tracking down this set on eBay and reliving your far-away youth in a good ol' nostalgia-fest, and having a good hearty laugh in the process. 

BABE Of The DAY - LINDA THORSON...

Apt that one of LINDA THORSON's

predecessors in The AVENGERS recorded

a pop song called KINKY BOOTS, as that's

exactly what Linda is wearing.  I wonder if

they're made for walking, though what else

 would boots be made for?  (Climbing!)

PRIDE GOES BEFORE A FALL...

I've probably posted a link to this song by JIM REEVES before, but it's well worth presenting again.  Marvel at Jim's vocal dexterity as he sings "way above the ceiling" while bringing his voice down low and deep.  Probably the greatest male vocalist of the 20th century in my famously humble estimation.  Give it a listen.

TALES Of No SENSE In The MARVEL AGE...

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Hi, Crivs - hope you're all keeping well during these trying times.  I've been reading my EPIC COLLECTION of The INVINCIBLE IRON MAN recently and I've made an interesting discovery.  Namely, I'm getting cleverer the older I get.  Don't scoff, it's true.  Loopy lapses in logic jump out of the pages at me these days, whereas I never seemed to notice them before.  Want some examples?  Well, take the Iron Man story in TALES OF SUSPENSE #43 - KALA, QUEEN Of The NETHERWORLD, wherein TONY STARK, along with one of his technicians and a security guard, are captured and taken to the centre of the Earth.

Eventually, Tony (as Iron Man) triumphs and takes Kala up to the surface world, where she finds that the atmosphere causes her to age into a hideous old hag.  That's because the atmosphere in the Netherworld is different to that on the surface, but in that case, why aren't Tony and his fellow surface-men affected in some way in the bowels of the earth?  (And why are fellow centre-of-the-Earth dwellers TYRANNUS and The MOLE MAN [who don't appear in this tale] not similarly affected when they come topside?)  Yeah, sure, if you apply your mind to it, you could probably dream up some reason to explain it away, but the fact remains that such dichotomies were missed or ignored by the writer when the story was produced.

Also, consider the patent absurdity of Tony Stark creating a duplicate of his Iron Man armour (aside from his chest plate obviously, which he wears constantly) overnight in one of Kala's laboratories.  Not just the armour, but a whole horde of built-in devices, like an electronic reverse-energy beam, pellets of chemical crystals, tiny transistor-powered magnets, multiple image-creating mirrors, and transistor-powered clippers for cutting through the layers of earth between the Netherworld and the surface world.  Stretching the readers' credulity just a bit, no?

However, there's an innocence to these tales, and despite their flaws I still love 'em.  I first read these stories back in the '60s in the b&w pages of FANTASTIC (and again [in colour] very soon after in MARVEL COLLECTORS' ITEM CLASSICS) and I can't look at them now without being returned to that earlier time, when the neighbourhood I then stayed was still as I knew it and the playing-field across the road from my house was yet a field, not the site of a big ugly three-storey building that blots out the horizon.

Any memories of these tales, fellow Crivvies?  Then you know where the comments section is.  (Incidentally, I've taken the accompanying images from MCIC #6, 'cos my Epic volume is too tightly bound to scan without leaving a shadow and out-of-focus 'bar' down the side of the spine.)

PART TEN Of DON STARR'S APPOINTMENT With FEAR!

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Hopefully, the fact that I'm currently using a borrowed computer screen which is of different dimensions to my own won't affect the quality of any images I post.  Y'see, it's higher and less wide than my usual screen, so pictures are compressed width-wise and elongated hight-wise, making what I'm looking at rather weird.  However, while that may affect my perception of things, it shouldn't change the way you Crivs see things on your screens, so here's the next TERRIFIC episode of DON STARR in an APPOINTMENT With FEAR!  Enjoy!

A VIRUS STRIKES (UPDATE - AGAIN)...

Unfortunately, my computer seems to have been infected by a virus (not Corona), so until it's sorted, I'll have to stop blogging.  Apologies, but not my fault.  Please note that I'll probably be unable to respond to emails as well.  See you whenever.

Update: Just found out that it isn't a virus - the LED which lights up my screen has died, resulting in it looking like a coal cellar at midnight.  If I shine a torch on it from the side, I can just barely see to type - but it's not an ideal way to blog.  Given the current situation, I've no idea when I'll be able to get it repaired so I'd appreciate you Crivs helping to keep the blog going by visiting some old posts.  You've only got about four and a half thousand to choose from.

Further update: A friend has lent me a monitor to plug in to my computer so that I can continue blogging, so I'll maybe post something later tonight.  (Was that a groan of despair I just heard?)  Thanks, Iain.

A STREET DIVIDED...

In the row of houses on the left of the pic, only the first one belongs to the same street as
the other seven rows.  The rest of that one row is designated as another street.  Even my
dog Zara thinks it's totally bonkers.  I assume it was the result of some kind of oversight

You live and learn.  A staggering 54 years ago I moved into a house in a street that was comprised of 8 rows of 6 terraced houses each.  Last night I learned that 5 of the houses in the first row fell under another street name - only the first house in the row belonged to the same street as the other 7 rows.  Don't ask me why, as it seems completely arbitrary to divide up a row of connecting houses in this way, but that's what was done.  If you lived in that first house (appropriately numbered 1), it meant your neighbours' gardens on the other side of the adjoining hedge or fence were in a completely different street.  Or if you entered your back door through the narrow communal path between the back gardens, one row was in one street, the other row (aside from the first house) was in another.  Crazy, if you ask me.

Anyway, I was along in that old neighbourhood tonight and ran into the brother of one of my brother's pals back in the '60s.  This fellow doesn't live in the area any longer, but was visiting his elderly mother - and that's when I learned another surprising thing.  Back around 1967 (this I knew because I still lived there), his family moved from the 5th row to the first row, which, up until last night, I'd always believed was in the same street.  Then, around 1986, his mother moved into the house adjoining what had recently been her then current one (I only discovered this tonight), which she's now lived in for around 34 years, beating by far her 19 year stay next door.  (Which her son says she doesn't remember due to dementia.)

Now, that won't mean anything to you, but it amazes the hell out of me.  Any of you ever find out something surprising about a place you'd once lived?  If so, let rip in the comments section.

IS IT JUST MY VIVID IMAGINATION, OR IS THIS SPV A LITTLE DUSTY?

First of all, excuse the dust.  I was in such a hurry to photograph this great toy from 2001 that I didn't notice it was in need of a wipe until after I'd snapped the pics.  Over on MOONBASE CENTRAL blog, SCOOP has some pictures up of his CENTURY 21 SPV from the late-'60s, and this VIVID IMAGINATION version is clearly channelling its earlier predecessor.  Click on Moonbase's name above to see Scoop's photos, but first take a look at mine, seeing as how I went to all the bother of pressing a button on my camera (nine times).