JLS Purveying his Kingdom

Fingers Crossed...

Finally completed my Armada Ghost Book collection. Wasnt easy, required searching ebay in different countries and begging them to ship to UK lol. I just hope it makes from the other side of the world o my letter box now...

 

Sleeping Beauty

The Guy N Smith Lego Project Continues

Lego Arm Dynamist Secret Giveaway

I Want to Go Home

Beautiful Spring

I went for a wee walk during my lunch break today. Despite approach 59 years if age I had almost forgotten how beautiful this time of year was.

Views

One of the things I can't complain out work are the views. First pic is the view from my workstation. 2nd and 3rd pics are my view over North Gower from where I take my lunch.

Kula Shaker & Ocean Colour Scene

First gig we've been to for a fair while. Could miss out on an Ocean Colour Scene and Kula Shaker combo, especially when they were playing in our home town. 🕺💃

Caturday

Garden Plant of the Moment

It is now that time of the year for our garden magnolia to shine 😎

Back on the Blocks

Working through it

Having to take a few days off work with a downturn in my health, I spent the day playing Lego and witing an introduction for one of my favourite books... 

A Lego Space Odyssey

10th Armada Ghost Book

1978. The year I started Comprehensive school. The school handed out regular book catalogues selling books at a discount to encourage reading. And that is where I first came into contact with Armada Ghost Books.

To say I loved this book would be an understatement, and I also like the idea that the school was sanctioning the reading of ghost stories. :)

Peter Archer is again credited as the book's artist, and he has certainly upped his game with the interior story illustrations:

With a fantastic book cover and scary interior illustrations, the set list of supernatural stories really rounds off what I still consider the best in the Armada Ghost Book series.

Two stories, in particular, stand out amongst the selection. The first is The Sinister Schoolmaster by Rosemary Timperley. Who could resist reading this tale after seeing the genuinely scary cover art illustrating it? The thought of encountering a ghostly mystery whilst on the way to school was appealing beyond words to me as a child! 

The other tale that stuck with me was Mousey by John Halking. Now, I had a pet mouse myself at the time of reading this story, and as soon as I realised this tale was about a boy who took his mouse out and about with him, I cringed. My only hope was that I was reading a children's book, so hopefully, the mouse would make it to the end alive. But Armada was canny with their athologies and often slotted in darker themes in with with their more lightweight offerings!