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My library just grew again 2019

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Weaver

#45
February 23, 2019, 01:47:34 PM
From a charity shop in Stockport today, a copy of Do-It-Yourself Brain Surgery and Other Home Skills by Stewart Cowley.

A hilarious 1981 parody of DIY books, by (I think) the same author as the much-loved Terran Trade Authority Handbooks sci-fi series, that earnestly encourages you to build an ocean liner in your back garden or train combat hamsters for fun and profit. I first read this in the library at school and nearly got chucked out for giggling too loudly. I actually already have a copy, but I wasn't going to pass a better one up for 50p.

Sometimes, the ingredients lists are all you need to see where things are going. I've always like this one:

COMPLETE KAMIKAZE COURSE
You will need
A white silk scarf
Goggles
A bicycle
A sense of destiny

"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Rick Lowe

#46
February 23, 2019, 05:19:51 PM
Oh, now that looks like it'd be a scream! Great find!

"A Sense of Destiny"...  ;D ;D :thumbsup:

loupgarou

#47
February 24, 2019, 03:18:07 AM
Sounds very interesting. Have noted it down for a search.
Owing to the current financial difficulties, the light at the end of the tunnel will be turned off until further notice.

NARSES2

#48
February 24, 2019, 05:53:59 AM
I've vague memories of that from a long time ago. Never know it might turn up it my current "great search for the missing photos".  :angel:
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Rheged

#49
February 24, 2019, 10:21:42 AM
I think I came across those kamikaze cyclists this morning in a thick fog.  No white scarves or lights, but bicycles, goggles and a definite sense of something or other.....destiny?.....invulnerability?...stupidity?

On a more positive note Oxfam bookshop Hereford yielded Vic Flintham's  Aircraft in British Military Service since 1946......and it only cost £1.99.
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet

Weaver

#50
February 24, 2019, 12:40:09 PM
From the Crewe/Nantwich show today: Modern Combat Aircraft 15 - Hawker Hunter by Robert Jackson. One of the early '80s Ian Allen books, which I sorta collect.

You wouldn't think there'd be anything new to learn about the Hunter, would you? However it fell open at a picture of Sidewinders mounted on the gun pack, which I've never seen before... :o
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Mossie

#51
February 24, 2019, 01:29:48 PM Last Edit: February 24, 2019, 02:51:37 PM by Mossie
Sidewinders is a new one on me, nice.  I've seen a pic of the same arrangement with Firestreaks along with a drawing, in Tony Butler's The Design and Development of the Hawker Hunter.
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

Gondor

#52
March 02, 2019, 08:50:51 AM
Just received an ebay purchase

Soviet Secret Projects, Fighters since 1945

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Gondor

#53
March 13, 2019, 11:25:16 AM
Another ebay purchase arrived today

American Secret Projects 1, Fighters, Bombers and attack Aircraft 1937-1945

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

NARSES2

#54
March 14, 2019, 06:59:05 AM
Just a handy, quick reference book "Sixty Battles - the complete battles of Napoleon"
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

Gondor

#55
March 24, 2019, 05:34:45 AM
Recently received from eBay

Tankograd-British Special No 9023

Conqueror Heavy Gun Tank

Gondor
My Ability to Imagine is only exceeded by my Imagined Abilities

Gondor's Modelling Rule Number Three: Everything will fit perfectly untill you apply glue...

I know it's in a book I have around here somewhere....

Mossie

#56
March 28, 2019, 11:15:46 AM
Haynes Blackburn/BAe Buccaneer, from The Works
I don't think it's nice, you laughin'. You see, my mule don't like people laughin'. He gets the crazy idea you're laughin' at him. Now if you apologize, like I know you're going to, I might convince him that you really didn't mean it.

scooter

#57
April 05, 2019, 06:26:49 AM
Received from Amazon y'day: Mutineer, Book 2 in JA Sutherland's Alexis Carew series; based loosely on the events that led to the mutiny aboard HMS Hermoine in 1797.  Even though I read it before on Kindle, I do like having the hardcopy available.
The F-106- 26 December 1956 to 8 August 1988
Gone But Not Forgotten

QuoteOh are you from Wales ?? Do you know a fella named Jonah ?? He used to live in whales for a while.
— Groucho Marx

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zenrat

#58
April 06, 2019, 03:08:15 AM
Quote from: scooter on April 05, 2019, 06:26:49 AM
Received from Amazon y'day: Mutineer, Book 2 in JA Sutherland's Alexis Carew series; based loosely on the events that led to the mutiny aboard HMS Hermoine in 1797.  Even though I read it before on Kindle, I do like having the hardcopy available.

:thumbsup:
Fred

- Can't be bothered to do the proper research and get it right.

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

zenrat industries:  We're everywhere...for your convenience..

NARSES2

#59
April 11, 2019, 07:24:31 AM
Was early for a lunch date yesterday so went into Waterstones. Ineviatably walked out with a book.

Hungary - A short History by Norman Stone
Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.
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