When I was a kid, Trolls were a simple thing to get your head round, they were slightly larger, toad-skinned goblins who lived under bridges...

Apologies to any Icelandic Loyal Readers who may have just chocked on their elevenses, for my miserable attempt at a line of Icelandic gramm...

It's always fun finding out how other people do Christmas, because it's not all the modern iconography of Albert, Prince-consort, Th...

There are moments when you struggle to believe you've done something, and at Sandown Park the other day week month one of those moment...

Not really a 'horde' but quite a few and the A-Z trope has been hacked to death now . . . although I'm not sure what a 'hord...

Kicking-off a small Easter season, or small season of Easter posts? Anyway, these are old Hungarian egg-painting designs, recorded in the ma...

So this is the stuff I live to collect for - forget yer' Airfix , yer' Jean , Elastolin or Starlux , all mass-produced, common-as-m...

I mean...if I'd known? I would have been there . . . with a butterfly net! http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/music/plan-b-review-back...

I'm loving these, I'm not sure if they pass muster as Rack-Toys, more of a blind-bag or carded 'collectable' thing, but my b...

Some more of the cultural referances to toy soldiers and model kits I've collected over the years... Spin Collective Wall Stickers ...

Sometimes the heading is the hard part!...More Toy Soldiers seeping into the veins of wider society! Skater Boys , Radical Man! Hornets ...