Well it's been an odd year but here we are again, gearing up for Christmas and so it's time to indulge in the annual blog custom and...

"Christmas is coming!" me, Christmas 1982, posing with my haul (and clearly very chuffed with the Blondie calendar).  That sign...

Creature From The Black Lagoon opened in the UK on 9th December 1954, having premiered in the USA on 12th February that year.  It was direc...

In a new edition of the occasional series, I want to tell you about a book I've read and loved, which I think adds to the horror genre a...

Regular readers of the blog will know I'm a big fan of The Three Investigators series (I wrote a Nostalgic post about them, on the 50th...

Regular blog readers will know I've been friends with  Sue Moorcroft  for a while, having met at the Kettering Writers Group in 1999 (th...

To mark the publication of his new novel, A Wing And A Prayer , my friend Mick Arnold contributes this guest blog about the origins of his b...

Look-In , 'The Junior TV Times', was a much loved magazine of my childhood (I wrote a Nostalgia post about it in 2016), which helpe...