I started to make a list of PAN published authors who may have been born or died around the date of a blog. Looks like I fell at the first hurdle as I had Christy Brown down as dying on the 7th October when in fact it was September. Not wanting to waste the scans of his titles and editions I have, I’m sharing them now. I’m sure I have the 1971 edition of ‘Down All The Days’ but can I find it hence a cover taken from the web as a temporary stop gap. Christy Brown was an Irish writer and painter born in Dublin (05/06/1932) He had cerebral palsy and could only write or type with the toes of one foot. His is probably most well known for his autobiography ‘My Left Foot’ which was later made into a 1989 Academy Award-winning film of the same name. He died in Somerset aged 49 (07/09/1981)
Another excellent video from Jules Burt has him looking through his PAN Majors and later titles. I love to see those covers although as usual there are one or two clunkers amongst them.
I have been a bit distracted recently playing with my newly acquired LEGO set of ‘Mindstorms’ When I retired, but returned to work part time, I went round schools with 15 sets trying to get the pupils to use them. I found it very frustrating wanting to do it all for them as most didn’t have a clue but knew I couldn’t. I’ve hankered after a set ever since and finally bit the bullet and looked on eBay. There were sets at all prices but I found one of version 2.0 at a good price and which I prefer because of the computer programming software rather than the later version 3.0. I started to watch it expecting it to soar but was out on the night it closed so image my surprise the next day to get an offer of 50% off as it hadn’t sold. I’m now really enjoying myself with LEGO having nearly forgotten how much fun it is, dare I say almost as much fun as collecting PAN books?
Amazon still sell version 2.0 for £422, I paid £29.50!