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2025.05.13

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All my usual sources of Star Fleet news have been very quiet over the past few weeks.
I've had to put the game on a back-burner for various reasons over the past month, but I will be getting back to it.

In the meantime, one thing that we have in Northumberland is a very large second-hand bookstore: Barter Books, in the old train station in Alnwick.

It has a lot of old children's annual books, like TV21.
We've picked up a lot of Stingray and TV21 comics there, but since our daughter was quite small, I've picked up quite a big collection of Rupert annuals.

There's something about how charming and imaginative the stories and adventures are and we read them a lot.

I saw on Saturday that Barter Books had somewhat replenished their supply, so I hoovered up these four: 1971, 1982, 1993 and 1998.

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I read the 1980 Rupert Annual every Christmas Eve growing up.  It had a story called Rupert and the Flavours.  😀😀

Crash 2025.05.14 | 00:12

Yep, we have that one in our collection too. 😄
- Everything from the '80s and almost everything from the '70s

What made the stories memorable for me were the illustrations inside the cover that spanned two pages.
It was always whimsical flying machines and dragons and floating castles.
Or, if it wasn't that, it was desert islands and sea serpents and merboys and all sorts of things that you just never see anywhere else.

The whole Nutwood, picturesque, chocolate-box village, where everyone knows eachother is a really appealing idea as well.

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