Antique Collectors Mugs

'As I recall you were the one who told him that he couldn't take it with him.'

A Misdelivered Letter

"No, it wasn't a sinkhole. Your old TV was so heavy the ground could no longer take the weight."

Southwark Fair.

Barcode on Ancient Greek Vase

The original paperless office

Trilby - 'Je prong!'

"Ikea for hippies" 1. Flimsig used pallets, old foam 2. Stinkum goat wool 3. Beetup recycled lumber 4. Riskig kerosene lamp 5. Stupor hand blown by Nils 6. Smokum found on beach in Mendocino 7. Woblig 100% driftwood

Early Colour TV

Abandoning the computer for a typewriter.

A hammer in his den enjoying a cigar and port with his collection of trophy thumbs above his head.

'This is a wind-up, isn't it?'

'No, you can't just watch the end of Bargainhunt!'

The First Printed Bible

Pre-Television Man Caves

Estate Sale! All the stuff my kids said they don't want to inherit.

Stone Age women were less happy than men at the arrival of the iron age: Look what I've invented just for you darling.

Dinner at the Jolly Sandboys (opening to Ch 19)

"They lead a simple life - they don't even put gas in their cars."

Ye Old Cafe: No Coffee Today - Sore Arm!

Gadzook used armour. Only one careful owner.

JET (Part I)

Clock and Watch Shop: Second-Hand Clocks and Minute-Hand Clocks.

"There's lots of things in my life I absolutely needed to put in, and now there's lots of things in my life I absolutely need to get out."

At last, Clarence thought, the long-awaited return to the old economy had begun.

Verbal Orders

"If history has taught us anything, it's taught us that there have been a ridiculous number of books written about history."

Grandfather Clock

'Oh I don't mind you turning over my cups to look at the mark. But next time, please finish your tea.'

"Grandma's TV is so old it wasn't made in a foreign country."

"The keep saying unrestored and what a nice PATINA, Ted. A better-sounding word for old tarnished stuff would be SCRINCH or SKRITCH, don't you think, eh, Ted?"

"Haven't you a small one that would fit into a soldier's pack?"

"Perhaps you're right. Maybe we should upgrade our computer system."

They were long past their canine pasts, but the rare stamp brought out the beast in them.

August 9, 1857: The World's First Elevator Demonstration