Colm O'Regan: A shortcut to the past — a Facebook group of iconic covers from the Ladybird archive

Fly Away Home is the online base of Helen Day, who collects, curates and minds hundreds of old Ladybird books. They might be fairy tales, Peter and Jane, history, wildlife, How Stuff Works (or at least How Stuff Used To Work)

Colm O'Regan: "We HAD those books. And what did we do with them? Why did we get rid of them? How did we not see the value of them?" Picture: Chani Anderson.

Regular readers! You have my sympathies but also you may have spotted a pattern with this column. I write a lot about nice Facebook pages. These might be groups of niche interest such as The Wire, 2000AD, strange maps and runes or just the places where it’s just all good news. 

The videos with the special offers from the Wrekenton Poundzone with its pallets of Diet Coke and exotic flavour Monster Munch. It changed hands in the last couple of years. Graham and Lewis sold up and Sanjiv took over but he’s kept the spirit going.