Yet Another Cycling Forum
Random Musings => Miscellany => Kidstuff => Topic started by: Wowbagger on 12 September, 2013, 10:06:54 am
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I have just introduced Bagpuss to Martha. She is transfixed with the Mouse Mill episode.
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Is that the one where the mice make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans etc?
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Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?
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Oh dear. This is how it starts, with the most Magical Saggy old cloth cat in the whole wide world. Next it will be irascible space creatures swearing. Then she'll be after the hard stuff, the Welsh train and The Nog.
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Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?
He just went to sleep.
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Is that the one where the mice make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans etc?
Breadcrumbs and butterbeans!
<high pitched voices>
"More breadcrumbs and butterbeans!"
"Which do you want first, breadcrumbs or butterbeans?"
"Breadcrumbs first, then butterbeans!"
Bagpuss was probably my favourite TV show as a kid.
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Seems terribly melancholic to me. Never watched it as a young kid. We didn't have a TV until I was 10.
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Have you done the stinky stilton cheese one yet?
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Have you done the stinky stilton cheese one yet?
Binglety, banglety, bonglety, bumpety, down the apples and pears!
;D
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Is that the one where the mice make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans etc?
Chocolate biscuits? From breadcrumbs and butterbeans?
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Those mice were very good at their jobs!
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There are some fab young children's programmes on Cyw, the S4C kids programming, if you want to widen her linguistic diversity. Available on demand on clic, the S4C player app.
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I prefer to offer my kids a more realistic and balanced view of Wales and the Welsh and to that end I've been giving them a daily viewing of Ivor the Engine,
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I prefer to offer my kids a more realistic and balanced view of Wales and the Welsh and to that end I've been giving them a daily viewing of Ivor the Engine,
"F*** me!" says Evans the Steam "A talking train!"
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You know nothing! Ivor doesn't talk, just sounds his horn in in different notes to help Jones the Steam in the choir.
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"F*** me!" says Evans the Steam "A talking train!"
You're thinking of Thomas the Tank Engine.
I loved the Rev.Awdry's books as a kid but I saw them again recently and realised they're actually pretty awful. Nice pictures though.
I still love Postgate's stuff.
Oh, and the original Emily is a near neighbour of mine.
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Anyone who doesn't love Bagpuss is dead inside and shouldn't be trusted. Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry catpuss, baggy and a bit loose at the seams.
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Anyone who doesn't love Bagpuss is dead inside and shouldn't be trusted. Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss, old fat furry catpuss, baggy and a bit loose at the seams.
Indeed, and I have to confess that Bagpuss rides shotgun in my car, us having found him hiding in a shop in Whitby.
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Bagpuss was probably my favourite TV show as a kid.
Doesn't surprise me at all. What about Wombles?
Btw, EG, I'm dead inside and shouldn't be trusted. I think Professor Yaffle gets too much of a hard time from the knownowts.
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Bagpuss is the best kids TV in the whole wide world...
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Says someone who obviously never saw Pogle's Wood. </fondifdistantmemories>
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Not old enough for Pogle's Wood :smug:
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<----- Remembers Pogle's Wood.
Bagpuss is miles better.
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I remember Pogles wood. I thought the witch was scary :(
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A Pedant Writes: Technically, the scary witch was inthe first series, which was entitled The Pogles. The BBC received so many complaints about how scary it was, they never repeated it. Pogle's Wood, i.e. the second series onwards, was a more bucolic format, less epic and (crucially) less scary.
But yeah, wasn't she? :o
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Pogle's Wood is one of my treasured childhood memories. I think I loved everything Oliver Postgate ever did.
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Clarion, fair point, well made. In my defence I was only four at the time and watching on a grainy 405 line TV.
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No excuses accepted.
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I don't recall ever seeing The Pogles or Pogles' Wood, but The Clangers was my favourite prog as a small child.
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Bet you don't remember Pingwings, either, which was the Smallfilms production before Pogles. ;)
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I don't recall ever seeing The Pogles or Pogles' Wood, but The Clangers was my favourite prog as a small child.
Ditto. 100%.
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I liked the Clangers as a big child. No, I wasn't on drugs; and neither were the makers, really. As on adult on prescription drugs, I like In the Night Garden (http://youtu.be/HQ6zmKq5u3E?t=2m1s).
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Does anybody else remember Romper Room?
As a pre-schooler it was brilliant, thinking back now it was crap.
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Never saw Bagpuss or Pogle's Wood. I may be too old. Noggin the Nog was my era.
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Pogle predated Noggin. Bagpuss was slightly later.
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Um, not according to my memory or Wikithing.
Noggin the Nog (1959-1965 remade in colour in 1970 and 1982 also for the BBC)
Pogles' Wood (1966–67)
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I found Bagpuss a bit, erm, dull tbh.
Ivor the Engine. :thumbsup: There's DRAGONS.
Really I'm a Camberwick Green kinda gal, though.
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You're right, of course, Nicknack. I'd forgotten the original Noggin.
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Have you done the stinky stilton cheese one yet?
Binglety, banglety, bonglety, bumpety, down the apples and pears!
;D
I had a CD of Bagpuss songs. If you listen carefully in that song (on that very line I think) you can hear all the singers giggling a little bit as they sing.
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Bagpuss was probably my favourite TV show as a kid.
Doesn't surprise me at all. What about Wombles?
Btw, EG, I'm dead inside and shouldn't be trusted. I think Professor Yaffle gets too much of a hard time from the knownowts.
The Wombles were alright, but not a favourite of mine as a kid. Smallfilms ruled, followed by Trumptonshire.
I was lucky enough to go to a screening of Noggin at City Screen, with live appearance by Peter Firmin. Oliver Postgate should have been there but was unwell. Still, I got to meet a real Clanger, and the lady who knitted them (Mrs Firmin), and thank Peter Firmin for my childhood.
BTW, Yaffle was apparently based on Bertrand Russell, who was a friend of the Postgate family.
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I had a CD of Bagpuss songs. If you listen carefully in that song (on that very line I think) you can hear all the singers giggling a little bit as they sing.
I bet! It always makes me smile.
My dad used to vaguely know Madeleine and Gabriel IRL. They're like proper serious folk musicians and everything.
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Does anybody else remember Romper Room?
As a pre-schooler it was brilliant, thinking back now it was crap.
I remember the Northern Ireland version but, apparently, there were others (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romper_Room#United_Kingdom).
Anyway, The Herbs was the best kids TV programme :P
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I raise you Trumpton. And Dangermouse.
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I went to a Fringe event a few years ago which was Phil Jupitus in conversation with Brian Cant, talking about Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green, showing clips, and it finished with a whole episode chosen at random. When the opening credits of "this is a box, a musical box..." started, the whole audience did a sort of "ohhhhhhhhhhh" and I'm absolutely certain I wasn't the only one a bit damp around the eyes.
We watched an episode of Camberwick Green in which PC McGarry questioned Windy Miller about boys fishing without a permit, but Windy refused to grass them up, then he drank a lot of strong cider and fell asleep. Meanwhile, PC McGarry went off to question Mr Crockett the garage man, refuelled his police motorbike and then went off without paying. It's quite subversive really.
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number 452
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf17YKJZv3w
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Roobarb and Custard. That was a bit surreal.
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The best song in Bagpuss is 'The Bony King of Nowhere', where they don't say bum.
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You haven't lived until you've watched Mr Benn, on an oscilloscope, in reverse video green and black, without the audio (we didn't have an easy way to extract the audio sub-carrier and demodulate it), so an entire lab full of people doing the words, because we all knew them so well. ;D
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The best song in Bagpuss is 'The Bony King of Nowhere', where they don't say bum.
I love that too! ;D
Also, the bit where Yaffle tells the mice to just get on, and not sing, and a mouse replies, "Mice like to sing. Mice not sing, mice not work. Mice Strike!"
And when they push Charlie Mouse into the Ship in a Bottle, and Madeleine cries out about how they're hurting him, so they pull him out again, with a popping cork noise..
Actually. Just all of it.
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Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?
He was asleep.
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Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?
He was asleep.
Maybe not the only one. ;D
Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?
He just went to sleep.
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When the opening credits of "this is a box, a musical box..." started, the whole audience did a sort of "ohhhhhhhhhhh" and I'm absolutely certain I wasn't the only one a bit damp around the eyes.
Yep. They repeated them all on tv a while back. I watched as many as I could, and I loved all those I saw, but the best bit was (as always) the opening sequence. Brian wove a little bit of magic into those words.
We watched an episode of Camberwick Green in which PC McGarry questioned Windy Miller about boys fishing without a permit, but Windy refused to grass them up, then he drank a lot of strong cider and fell asleep. Meanwhile, PC McGarry went off to question Mr Crockett the garage man, refuelled his police motorbike and then went off without paying. It's quite subversive really.
Didn't Windy also fall into a drunken stupor under the windmill?
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OT: Since it's okay to mention Pogle's Wood, can I chip in Hector's House and the Herb Garden?
I have the scantest memories of both, but it feels as though they were important. Isn't it amazing what sticks?
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I went to a Fringe event a few years ago which was Phil Jupitus in conversation with Brian Cant, talking about Trumpton, Chigley and Camberwick Green, showing clips, and it finished with a whole episode chosen at random. When the opening credits of "this is a box, a musical box..." started, the whole audience did a sort of "ohhhhhhhhhhh" and I'm absolutely certain I wasn't the only one a bit damp around the eyes.
We watched an episode of Camberwick Green in which PC McGarry questioned Windy Miller about boys fishing without a permit, but Windy refused to grass them up, then he drank a lot of strong cider and fell asleep. Meanwhile, PC McGarry went off to question Mr Crockett the garage man, refuelled his police motorbike and then went off without paying. It's quite subversive really.
My children watched it with me a couple if years ago and said it was proper creepy. No2Daughter claimed she had windmill based nightmares.
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I had windmill-based nightmares, once. But that was because of the book, The Windmill Man, and its horrid illustrations.
I now love windmills. :)
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I had windmill-based nightmares, once. But that was because of the book, The Windmill Man, and its horrid illustrations.
I now love windmills. :)
Have you been to Holgate?
http://www.holgatewindmill.org/
It's brilliant when they've got the sails turning, a couple of times a month (not winter). The feeling of power when the sails turn is amazing, and you can go right up and see the workings. And it's on a roundabout in a surburban street!
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No, I haven't. I'll make a point of it in future.
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No, I haven't. I'll make a point of it in future.
Well worth a visit, I think.
The funny thing is how it appears and disappears completely as you cycle to and from it. You'd think it would be visible from miles around, but it hides.
The view from the top is superb - we think it's about level with the top of the Minster tower, but as it's on a hill, there aren't so many steps to climb to get up there.
(and it's not too far from the NRM, so that's a whole day taken care of!)
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The funny thing is how it appears and disappears completely as you cycle to and from it. You'd think it would be visible from miles around, but it hides.
Is it related to Drax power station? :D
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Stand by for some overwhelming nostalgia (for the fifty-somethings among us)
I didn't realise that I knew this off by heart until now, nor how deep-rooted it is in me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIWWupaaZE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTIWWupaaZE)