What I found in the back room @ Stupid-o'clock on Friday moring..

Well i'd had quite a productive day messing around with that teeny-weensy breadboard that came with my Kit, but i was quite sure i had an old one somewhere among the Stuff I Had Accumulated Over The Years..
Question: had my Uber-Tidy sister thrown it out because she didn't know what it was (ipso facto it Must Be Junk), or squirrelled it away under a mountain of Other Stuff she deemed More Relevant To My Life???
After a little thought i decided she might've learned that if it looked electronically unfamiliar, best she leave it in a corner somewhere.. Pretty much where i found the following:
Breadboard (4xlittle green MindKit size),
74 series TTL chips (the rugged non-fluffy-non-delicate-non-CMOS kind),
Half-a-squillion resistors & other odds-&-sods,
Some CMOS chips (still in anti-static foil, as yet Unk-Unk),
Even-More-Strip-backed-perf-board than i ever recalled having (YAY shields!!),
Connecting wire of various colours,
Solder,
Transistors, diodes, what-look-like li'l bitty voltage Regulators..
And-So-On.. quite a little treasureTrove!!
However, i suspect another of my sisters has my 15W soldering iron, so i'll probably neverEver see THAT again (or if i do, it'll be broken/karked/burntOut)..

Never Mind, Mabel !! So far, so encouraging!