It is the bane of blind or random selection that you won't always get what you want, what you hoped for, or what you need to complete a ...

Well, these have been in the queue for nearly two years! A mate, Adrian, was doing the Cherry Blossom trail in Japan, with his wife, and I s...

Specifically, the Cranleigh Post Office!   For those loyal readers who aren't aware of the fact (which is probably most of you), Cranlei...

I shouldn't be allowed, I know! Just a quickie here, I grabbed this in Waterstone's back in August as it was the last one, and went...

A few Sci-Fi bits and bobs which were kicking around various corners of the Laptop, and which might as well be shoehorned into one post to c...

Well, Nutcracker Suites are being cancelled left, right and centre, Sugar Plum Fairies are on furlough, Babes aren't  marching in the wo...

No, not a new line in Tron merchandise (mores' the pity!), nor a new range of aluminium-hulled reconnaissance vehicles for the British ...

You may have gathered over the years that I'm not a fan of the Kiddy-brick thieves, but that's at the corporate level, as far as th...

Picked-up one of these on my recent trip up to The Smoke, picked the other one up a couple of days later in a charity shop! And so t...