- Meet Mr Tummyness, a cousin of Mr Tumnus and the Roman deity Vertumnus. Mr Tummyness is waiting under the gas lamp to help any passing Daughters of Eve and is in almost no way using the dimensional gateway from Narnia to steal odd socks out of the back of your cupboards and sell them to a dodgy second-hand sock salesman called Aslan... or a ( Read more... )

• Judy for Girls annual 1967
• Judy for Girls annual 1968
• Judy for Girls annual 1969
• Judy annual 1970
• Judy for Girls annual 1972
• Judy for Girls annual 1976

- Reading, books 2016, 28: Judy Book for Girls (annual) 1971.

The endpapers are two board games. The title page is a photo of a plastic doll juggling lettered balls.

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- The harlequin ladybirds, Harmonia axyridis, are awakening from their hibernation in my window frames. Yesterday a ladybird saboteur walked across the carpet to Tiny Dalek and subjected him to a prolonged and vicious assault, mostly biting his innocent protuberances....


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- A gargoyle in his natural habitat.


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Upon the Ice, 1884: "They were young and lovely, both. They were the dearest friends. They clung to one another tenderly, whilst we looked on with envious eyes. [...]"


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Question: the next annual, 1971, has about fifteen pages worth posting. Would you prefer them all on the one post (under a cut, obv, and with text links to individual scans on flickr) or will that break someone's interwebz/brain/whatevz and you have an alternative suggestion?

• Judy for Girls annual 1967.
• Judy for Girls annual 1968.
• Judy ( Read more... )

• Judy for Girls annual 1967.
• Judy annual 1970.
• Judy for Girls annual 1972.
• Judy for Girls annual 1976.

- Reading, books 2016, 24: Judy for Girls annual 1968One of the girls on the front cover has a golliwog doll (i.e. a racist caricature). Sandra the ballerina wins best title again this year with Sandra and the Ballet of Silver Gulch. The ( Read more... )

In 1853, when the existence of dinosaurs was still a controversial subject, artist Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins made the Crystal Palace dinosaurs for exhibition to the public. His sculptures were the first attempts at reconstructing full-size dinosaurs. Academic arguments, publicity stunts, and hijinks ensued, including a full formal dinner served ( Read more... )

• Judy annual 1970.
• Judy for Girls annual 1972.
• Judy for Girls annual 1976.

- Reading, books 2016, 24: Judy for Girls annual 1967.

I wannabe an ASTRONAUT! (I wonder if Helen Sharman, born 1963, read girl's comics? Probably.)


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- Village women reading, with Mustafa Güzelgöz and his mobile library, Turkey, 1940s-60s.


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