Walnut Whippet
We didn’t ever own a Chairman Meow (v. unlikely as I’ve got a cat allergy) but we did have a whippet called Walnut. Very sadly […]
History
Happy New Year! – 2025
(A very quick post to say Happy New Year 2025.) Just like the awful ‘DAILY HISTORY PICTURZ’ pages that pop on on Facepalm full of […]
Christmas Tinner
‘Then it fell apart’; could be referencing that excellent Moby autobiography (Part 2), but hopefully isn’t from an email after we sent a machine out. […]
On The Pop & Caught On Camera
(A blog post to nominally celebrate tonight’s England vs. Spain match in the 2024 Euro’s, but actually an excuse to trot out a bizarre alcohol-related […]
Random Roundup
Just a few things I’ve spotted recently… First up was this very interesting, but likely not very tasty, Cadbury’s Mint Crisp vending size bar. Marked […]
Stamp Machine Mystery
There is some mystery surrounding this non-Royal Mail, private stamp vender, first if it ever saw actual service, secondly if it wasn’t part of a […]
Cupboards & Picnic’s
Hanging around eBay as you do, I came across these two machines, one is very much Rose Cottage the other, not so much – but […]
Auf Wiedersehen, DWM
And so it must have been when this machine was packed away, presumably just after decimalisation. We’ve previously sold a similar, single column German ‘Turbon’ […]
Hall Telephone Accessories Ltd. Stamp Machine
This was spotted on eBay, nothing too exciting but check out the build quality! The seller says; Vintage c1950 “Hall Telephone Accessories Ltd” Postage Stamps […]
KitKat Variations
A recent eBay auction or 20 has showed me just how many different KitKat wrappers there were in the paper era – I wasn’t tempted […]