Here's something completely different. I was in TKMaxx the other day, still looking for the broken astronaut - I don't think that...

All sorts of stuff has come out of the woodwork, or the kitchen cabinets over the last three years, some I've photographed, some has gon...

I really only shot these as the Toy Fair 2020 show came a couple of weeks after I'd Blogged the various construction systems on display...

Also from Mr B, and also hanging around in Picasa, these were shot at a garden-center or tourist-trap gift shop, I can't remember which,...

While editing part three I noticed a reference to another model, and - upon returning to the library here in Fleet after Christmas - found t...

The exhibition extended to a side table, where some of the earlier systems get a second outing with ephemera for a more nostalgia-related di...

I'm not sure who invented the first pierced-steel construction system, nor which side of the pond, or Channel, it first occurred on and ...

A great favourite of both Christmas crackers and gum-ball machines is the puzzle, coming in five basic forms; the  mini jig-saw (in card or ...