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After reading and reviewing Casino Royale, and Live and Let Die, and after about a year’s hiatus due to ‘real life stuff’ getting in the way, I continue my James Bond Challenge with Moonraker, the third Bond novel written by Ian Fleming, in 1955.  As ever, my book…

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One of my latest passions has become collecting vintage watches. In particular Casio digital watches, but I also love Swatch watches and any other cool watch from the 70s-90s. I’ve never really been hugely into Rolex or Omega or brands like that. I do appreciate…

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I’ve been in the middle of a big read/watch of all the James Bond novels and films lately, and I’m literally just about to start a big watch of all the A Christmas Carol films. And yet somehow I found myself in a watch of…

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After writing about the first two Ian Fleming Bond novels for my James Bond challenge I now move on to the next publication which is the TV special of Casino Royale for the TV show Climax! I actually watched this a few months ago and…

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After recently reading and reviewing Casino Royale, I continue my James Bond Challenge with Live and Let Die, the second Bond novel written by Ian Fleming, in 1954. Originally I was hoping to read one Bond novel each month, but as it is now the…

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I was recently contacted by Piepacker about their new retrogaming platform, and it just so happened it was right after I had heard about them on either The Retro Hour or This Week in Retro podcasts. Their name had stuck with me and their offering…

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My earliest exposure to the internet (not the world wide web) was through the 1983 film WarGames. This film has steadfastly become my favourite film over the years, mainly due to the sheer excitement it caused me when I first watched the character of David…

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One of the benefits of being the youngest of three brothers is that you get influenced by your older brothers’ musical tastes, and you get into cool music earlier than some of your friends. We always had The Rolling Stones playing in our house since…

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And so it begins. At the start of the year, I gave myself a James Bond challenge. I wanted to rewatch all the Bond movies in order, and rank them. But I then added in reading all the original Ian Fleming novels for the first…

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I was recently sent a review copy of ‘Acorn – A World in Pixels‘ by Idesine. As a rule I only like reviewing stuff that I am genuinely interested in myself, but this one really did peak my interest. As ever with review copies of…

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