As some of the more loyal readers, or even just regular readers - my 'eemies' are here most days! - may have gathered, a few years a...

Which this is, all day! Brian Burke sent me some fascinating images yesterday, by way of a follow-up to the poppy post I left up yesterday m...

Those who've stuck with the Blog from the start will know there have been one or two false starts with other Blogs, one of which is stil...

I was going to give you plaster figures from India this afternoon, but events - as they say - had other ideas, so I think this is more appro...

Given how sombre the day has been today (more-so than the 10th anniversary?), I thought upbeat or trite stuff about toys was out of place, a...

Dunklin County Libraries (Missouri) are giving away free toy soldiers on Veteran Day if you drop by, the links are problematical (I had to v...

Not really a 'toy soldier', not even a 'box-ticker' as there's no manufacturer . . . this would have been a one-off comm...

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few . All our hearts go out to the fighter pilots, whose brilliant ac...

Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Ninevah and Tyre! Judge of...