BOOJUM!: Conrad - Positively GIBBERING With Excitement!

No, I Haven't Been Given Permission To Own -
- well, let us draw a discreet veil o'er what Conrad would like to own, as this would be a little controversial.
I am gleeful for two reasons. First, "Thunderbirds65", which is a series of miniepisodes made using new and existing props as well as techniques from the classic "Thunderbirds" from back in the day. Art?

Gibbering, I tell you!

Herein the Twitter link:

https://twitter.com/thunderbirds65

"Thunderbirds" was noble and high-minded, Jeff Tracy cautioning his sons that they weren't simply showing off with expensive technology, they were there to save the life of their fellow man when normal emergency services couldn't manage.
Plus, it had Things Exploding. Art?

Starting as they mean to go on.
"Ah, the pathetic tendency of an old man to cling to his youth," I hear you saying, and apart from the "pathetic" bit, you are completely correct.
The second reason my palms are all sweaty is a serendipitous double discovery. Art?

"The Mathematics of Finance: A Deterministic Approach"

No! Art, you buffoon, that's possibly the world's most boring book. The one below it.

There you go!

Don't bother trying to read the title, it's in Icelandic*. "Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endelaust" or "With a buzz in our ears we play endlessly", by Sigur Ros. It's a promotional photo album for the 2008 release. It cost £30, but! it's a limited edition, to wit:

Number 5012

That weird little strip of plastic is actually a section of the 16mm film for "Gobblidigook", making it even more unique. That's not all. Art?

That's a picture CD of "Med" itself, which I might have lost when the car got broken into, and a film CD as well. So not a bad bargain. I did check it out on Abebooks and there was a copy going in South Cananda for only £0.77. Except that post and packing was £34.

"Gorgo"
What you might call "The British Godzilla". It begins with a quake at sea and ends up with Gorgo's mum trashing most of London's landmarks. That's not really what this post is about, however**. I caught the ending on television last week and immediately focussed in on the military hardware. Unfortunately the pictures I got on my camera were a bit rubbish.

Thanks to some software wizardry I can now put up a selection of rather better pictures, demonstrating a lot of British military hardware of the year 1961. Art?

Tanks!

These look to be the Mark 10 variant, with the 105mm gun. 50 tons of bad attitude!
Next!

Always give way to 3 ton armoured cars

These look to be Daimler Mark 2 armoured cars, mounting the 2 pounder, with Bedford lorries in the background. Next!

Sorry for the blurry, it was in a hurry

I think this is the Austin "Champ", a light truck used by the army. As I say, a bit blurry and I couldn't get a better screenshot. Soz!
Art?

Three birds, one stone

In the foreground is a Landrover, which superceded the Champ as it was a lot cheaper and easier to maintain. To the left rear is another Bedford truck and to the right a Humber "Saracen" armoured personnel carrier. I feel very clever getting all three in.
And next we have a shot of hapless conscripts blazing away at Gorgo's mum -

Stiff upper lip at all times, chaps. Remember, we're British!

- with their Lee-Enfield r- - hang on, that chap at the left is firing a German MP38. Which was used by the Wehrmacht in the Second Unpleasantness, certainly not by the British, and certainly not in 1961. It ought to be a Sterling.
Conrad notes that this happened in "Doctor Strangelove", too. I think it must be an armourer's in-joke. How else to explain away such a continuity error? Of course, I could be overthinking it ...
Oh, the main attraction***:

Gorgo and mum depart the scene.

Just so you don't go away feeling disappointed.

That Second Serendipitous Discovery
Whilst the nice lady in the Oxfam bookshop was getting my Sigur Ros book - excuse me, got to wipe down my sweaty palms - what did I notice in surprise and trepidation but the trade paperback of "The Winter Men". Art?

Lower right

This is an excellent comic book series that was sabotaged by an erratic publishing schedule. I got three of the six copies and gave up on completing the collection. It tells the story of Kris Kalenov, ex-flying tank jockey, the "Winter" project and politics versus organised crime in post-Soviet Russia. Kris is a near-alcoholic, separated, haunted by the past and an extremely hard-boiled brawler. He's almost never without a plaster on his face somewhere.