UKH

Give someone a map and you're passing on the gift of imagination, says Norman Hadley. Four decades after receiving a Lake District set - now torn and crackly, but still much loved - he has never stopped dreaming of the fells. Maps are for life, not just for Christmas.

Read more

I'm still waiting for the full set of GB Landrangers that I asked for...

I seem to remember I asked for a Petzl Zoom headtorch around the same age.

Yes, the NW map is definitely the best one. Just don't tell everyone

You should set up a GoFundMe, Mal - everyone loves a Good Cause. I remember frequenting my local bookshop as a youngster because they always stocked the full set of Landrangers. Long before Google Maps, it enthralled me that you could flit from Dungeness to Durness in seconds, all while standing in a shop in Lincoln.

(Happy days, jumpers for goalposts etc etc.)