An original early 1980s Rubik's Cube. The British Association of Toy Retailers noted the intense interest in the Cube upon its arrival...

I'm writing and posting this article on the seventh of May 2020, and it is a very important anniversary. On this day, the 'Rubik...

  The Barron Knights gave us the album Twisting The Knights Away in 1981, and reflected the year's main craze on the cover and in o...

Today is my birthday - and thanks to my sister, her partner, and my two wonderful nephews for coming up with this home made surprise cake ...

Favourite fat cat Garfield , creation of American cartoonist Jim Davis, first appeared as a comic strip, syndicated in 41 US newspapers, ...

Here are some SnuggleBumms, as featured in the spring/summer 1986 Argos catalogue. They had names like Warmly Kid, Poppa-Gently and Momma-Br...

From Clive Sinclair with love... t his year saw the arrival of the ZX Spectrum - remembered as the "dear old Speccy" today, but t...

In 1989, the year that the World Wide Web was invented and the Berlin Wall came down, we plebs were hugely excited by what we called Danci...

A skim through the toy selection in the Janet Frazer autumn and winter 1984/5 mail order catalogue - starting with some robots! Remember th...