tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post4912785210929512568..comments2024-03-24T14:47:00.370-07:00Comments on Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: A Minor Mystery ResolvedAl Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-34867214918522547622021-01-05T18:27:31.539-08:002021-01-05T18:27:31.539-08:00Stephen, did you see that Al responded to your com...Stephen, did you see that Al responded to your comment about the movie you were trying to find? (marble being crushed by a steamroller). Sounds like he found the one!John C. Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12013386334007632285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-23375494318968597472020-12-04T04:06:40.722-08:002020-12-04T04:06:40.722-08:00Truro for a year or two then Playing Place (small ...Truro for a year or two then Playing Place (small village outside Truro). My first school was what is now Kea Community Primary School. After we left Cornwall in 1973 I didn't return until 2012, but it was surprising how familiar Truro felt.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-53745703447139240372020-12-03T12:53:18.721-08:002020-12-03T12:53:18.721-08:00I'd forgotten you used to live in Cornwall. Wh...I'd forgotten you used to live in Cornwall. Where abouts in Cornwall did you used to live (speaking as a Cornish resident myself)?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03250783120933519490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-42225242304443927922020-11-13T17:22:42.875-08:002020-11-13T17:22:42.875-08:00On a different topic, it looks like Sora didn'...On a different topic, it looks like Sora didn't get to the Brittlestar in time.<br /><br /> https://www.space.com/amp/extra-bright-kilonova-from-neutron-star-collisionJameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06432306284233850987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-20392699324183579562020-11-06T19:25:09.034-08:002020-11-06T19:25:09.034-08:00It was a series as I remember more than one book. ...It was a series as I remember more than one book. Wikipedia confirms and tells me that there was even a Netflix series. abebooks seems to have a few copies.Orin Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03672387161151741494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-85858438407273460172020-11-02T04:20:43.628-08:002020-11-02T04:20:43.628-08:00Although!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4S-FiU...Although!<br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4S-FiUYPWo<br /><br />Scroll to the end! Steamroller and smashed marble etc.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-61918848241312185822020-11-02T04:15:55.198-08:002020-11-02T04:15:55.198-08:00I'm drawing a blank on both of those, alas.I'm drawing a blank on both of those, alas.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-63031605678243802682020-11-01T14:35:31.569-08:002020-11-01T14:35:31.569-08:00As soon as you said "creatures squashed"...As soon as you said "creatures squashed" I knew it was Bottersnikes. Aussie here and that was a childhood favourite.<br /><br />2 things I am trying to find:<br />1. Spaceman stranded on dry planet and likely to die. Once in millenia rain falls and rehydrate dormant fauna that are visually stunning, possible jellyfish like.<br /><br />2. Movie that ends with a marble (a tom bowler) being crushed by a steamroller, and the marble magically reassembles itself. Stephen Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15109013444562193926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-11070711016359529402020-10-30T14:56:16.665-07:002020-10-30T14:56:16.665-07:00That's a good story. I'm fascinated by the...That's a good story. I'm fascinated by these faint threads of memory, and what happens when we pull on them. As for Bottersnikes, yes, I'm 100 sure - it was a lightning flash as soon as I read a descrption of the book.<br /><br /><br />I'll mention a similar case. I spent some time in hospital when I was small and remembered a reading a book with drawings of big red walking quadruped robots in. This again would have been somewhere around 1973.<br /><br />Decades later, Adam Roberts put some images up on his blog - pages scanned from the 1959 Lion annual! There were my robots, exactly as remembered. Very kindly, Adam sent me that annual, and I still treasure it as a closing of that circle.<br /><br />Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-4058467259234486862020-10-30T11:46:45.533-07:002020-10-30T11:46:45.533-07:00Interesting the items at the fuzzy edges of our lo...Interesting the items at the fuzzy edges of our longterm memory.<br /><br />When I was very young, I watched a Christmastime cartoon, and what remained etched in my memory was the idea of a jaggedly drawn Jack Frost tapdancing savagely across icicled Victorian rooftops. No name, no other details, just a snaggly Jack Frost up on the roof. <br /><br />In pre-internet times there was nowhere to go with such incomplete memories, but the memory had such staying power that I began to search online as soon as I was able--but with no immediate luck.<br />Then I met my wife--and she remembered the same cartoon! though a lot of good it did us.<br /><br />Finally a few years ago, I came across the Canadian production of Oscar Wilde's <i>The Selfish Giant</i> <br /><br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jtLTS7T8cc<br /><br />and I wasn't <i>instantly</i> satisfied that this was the cartoon I remembered, but over time I was convinced.<br />But there is still room for indeterminancy, as my wife doesn't agree with me . . . .<br /><br />So I guess I'd wonder, are you *sure* it was Bottersnikes? Or just reasonably sure, as I am with The Giant?<br /><br />Also, "not necessarily the sort of thing you should be googling" :-)rastronomicalshttp://www.lahistoriadelamusicarock.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-53096900555036792392020-10-29T08:15:51.244-07:002020-10-29T08:15:51.244-07:00I had this and I loved it! (I was a member of the ...I had this and I loved it! (I was a member of the Puffin Club). While I remembered the name, I would have struggled to tell you anything about the story...space cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07851240553282827376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-19982419157994935392020-10-29T06:57:04.213-07:002020-10-29T06:57:04.213-07:00Some further digging suggests that the UK paperbac...Some further digging suggests that the UK paperback of this book appeared in January 1973, which is a little later than I suggested, but still in keeping with my memory of reading it (or being read it) during my school days in Cornwall.<br /><br />I have a particular affection for the Puffin edition of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, with the wonderful coloured drawings on the front and back.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-26127184359517222332020-10-29T05:48:33.243-07:002020-10-29T05:48:33.243-07:00Lockdown seems to have promoted a love for trackin...Lockdown seems to have promoted a love for tracking down and buying books from childhood for me too. With the help of some great groups on FB, one called 'OLD CHILDREN'S BOOK COVERS' being particularly useful, a lot of old Puffin, Target, Beaver, Hamlyn books have returned from the past. Such is the nostalgia drive lately that Usborne have re-released their Worlds of the Unknown 'Ghosts' and 'UFOs' books. Great stuff.Darren Hogghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10908032126731507522noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-28311050992284723052020-10-29T02:48:05.337-07:002020-10-29T02:48:05.337-07:00I remember loving this book! I came across it in o...I remember loving this book! I came across it in our junior school library. I vividly recall the Bottersnikes cramming the Gumbles into jars…Filihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01175056393428758746noreply@blogger.com