Things I Like # 7 – Days of Thunder Matchbox cars

I am starting to wonder if this blog should be called “Things I Found from Childhood?”
Anyway here are some official matchbox cars from the Tom Cruise film Days of Thunder. When I first bought them I thought these cars were the ultimate. Back in 1990, how could you not like those fluro colours?
I promise the [...]

Things I Like # 4 – 1990’s Toy Wrestling Rings

So I have been clearing out my Grandma’s garage which our family uses for storage and acts as a family museum. I pack my car full of plastic storage boxes and transporting them back to my own garage. I have discovered quite a lot of my toys from childhood.

Things I Like # 3 – 1980’s Inspector Gadget Wind-up Toy

This one is pretty self explanatory. I can’t remember the origins of this toy as this was one of my childhood (unlike the G.I. Joe poster or Giraffe toy.) I am pretty sure it is NOT a Happy Meal toy from McDonalds Family Restaurants. McDonalds toys lose a little bit of credit as they are [...]

Things I like #2 – 1980’s G.I. Joe Poster Board

This is currently hanging in my office above my desk. It is an original wooden board poster from the 1980’s with an image which I remember being on the front cover of the G.I. Joe board-game. 
I purchased this from a St Vincent De Paul (Vinnies) shop in Blacktown about 3 years ago. My bank account [...]

Things I like #1 – Hand-made Oxfam toy

Instead of ONLY writing about projects that I work on, in this blog I will try and have some running themes for the posts. Of the top of my head they might be:
1/ Things – Photos of weird things I own or collect.
2/ Films - I might share some thoughts on films that I have seen [...]