As we seem to be working through the forts at the moment, I thought I'd post a few loose ends, being those of the right age but wrong de...

I know this is supposed to be a gardening blog, which sort of became a wildlife blog, but with August turning into an early autumn, giving u...

Somewhere toward the back (page 127) of his little ' Introduction to Battle Gaming ' Terry Wise had a very small picture of a 'b...

Toward the end, Starlux , looking around for ways to make a bit of extra dosh, started putting undecorated whole sprues in boxes. The boxes...

Hard to tell if these came before or after the ones we looked at the other day, they have the same title, but the mouldings are not the same...

Long, long ago...In a Galaxy far, far away...they had Mausers, Stirling SMG's and MG34's with extra bits stuck on...oh yeah, and the...

The recent news of the passing-away of Terry Wise came to me as a sadness for the slow demise of a more innocent age. Without his little boo...

Once upon a time there was a Rabbit, called Bilbo, who found himself billeted on the big house at the end of the village, now; it happened t...

Last year the Sweetpeas were a bit girly and pastel for my taste, but this year's batch have a bit of gravitas about them with dark reds...

Clearly I need a camera with a narrower focusing 'beam' and a faster shutter-speed! This is a Humming-bird Hawk Moth, going 99-to-th...

Clearing the Wisteria from the front of the big house, and getting it back into shape the other day, went off for lunch and came back to fin...

While sorting out the Photograph for the Battle of Britain memorial piece last night, I shot these two as well, now I have lots of unknown a...

Thanks go to James Opie for both these sets, neither of which is the Giant brand! There were thousands of these Hong Kong sets produced fro...

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...

As I mentioned these in the last post I thought I'd better chuck them up here as a comparison, They are described as "The only 1:64...