Some Random Christmas thoughts and stuff

When I was growing up, we had some very chunky coloured lights on our Christmas tree.
Very much like the lights on the right side of this image.

It snowed once quite close to Christmas/or just after.
I look quite confused or bemused in this pictue. I loved that coat.

Picked this up some years ago. Love the cover and some very lovely songs on it.

Always wanted a Johnny Seven OMA for Christmas. But one year I got this...Flight Deck.

and an Airfix Pontoon bridge

A selection of the much treasured Christmas Annuals.
They are still with me and are happy living on the shelf.

A Christmas tradition to watch every year.

There are Christmas songs, and then there is Billy Childish Christmas 1979

1969 Moonbase and More

What with it being 50 years since the Apollo Moon Landings, I thought it might be a good time to put my 1969 Space City Biscuit Tin on here. My friend Mr Palmer picked this up for me and it really is quite a lovely thing. In 1969 we were all so optimistic about space and the moon. The general assumption was that by the 1990s/end of the century we would be holidaying on the moon and there would be a rather splended Moonbase. On TV and Film we were constantly shown people living and working on the moon: Clavius Base in 2001, Moonbase Alpha in Space 1999, SHADO Moonbase in UFO (set in 1980) and even Hammer got in on the act with Moon City in Moon Zero 2 (set in 2021). Sadly of course in the real world none of this happened, even though I was convinced that it would. More on My fondness of all things 60s and 70s Spacewise can be sort out on Found Objects

 

SHADO/UFO Moonbase

Moonbase Alpha, Space 1999

Clavius Base, 2001

Moon City, Moon Zero Two