Still stunned.
Of course, I knew Postgate was an old man. And I know we - he - won't live forever.
But there's something inextricably linked to my childhood just disappeared. The TV entered the household the same week I did, and I watched a ridiculous amouint of the idiot-lantern when young. But the highlights were disproportionately from Postgate.
Clangers, Ivor the Engine, Noggin the Nog, even Alexander the Mouse, and, especially, the weird and wonderful Pogle's Wood.
Postgate, with the brilliantly inventive Peter Firmin as illustrator/animator, put together these great highlights of TV history in a garage near Canterbury.
The loving, but not over-sentimental, view of the world from a child's perspective of curiosity and wonder, informed my own approach to other people in society.
I'm generally very sceptical about the possibilities of TV, and children's TV in particular, as a force for good, but Postgate stands alongside Jim Henson and a select band of others in giving me hope.