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Bagpuss
« on: 12 September, 2013, 10:06:54 am »
I have just introduced Bagpuss to Martha. She is transfixed with the Mouse Mill episode.
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #1 on: 12 September, 2013, 10:52:21 am »
Is that the one where the mice make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans etc?
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #2 on: 12 September, 2013, 01:13:17 pm »
Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #3 on: 12 September, 2013, 03:48:28 pm »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #4 on: 12 September, 2013, 07:43:58 pm »
Was Bagpuss pleased to meet your granddaughter?

He just went to sleep.
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #5 on: 19 September, 2013, 09:12:01 pm »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #6 on: 19 September, 2013, 10:03:38 pm »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #7 on: 19 September, 2013, 10:54:33 pm »
Have you done the stinky stilton cheese one yet?


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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #8 on: 20 September, 2013, 12:01:06 am »

Have you done the stinky stilton cheese one yet?

Binglety, banglety, bonglety, bumpety, down the apples and pears!

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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #9 on: 20 September, 2013, 12:05:20 am »

Is that the one where the mice make chocolate biscuits out of butterbeans etc?

Chocolate biscuits? From breadcrumbs and butterbeans?
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #10 on: 20 September, 2013, 06:56:33 am »
Those mice were very good at their jobs!
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #11 on: 20 September, 2013, 07:12:29 am »
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.

Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #12 on: 20 September, 2013, 07:17:48 am »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #13 on: 20 September, 2013, 09:07:11 am »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #14 on: 20 September, 2013, 09:22:31 am »
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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citoyen

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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #15 on: 20 September, 2013, 09:41:42 am »
"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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #16 on: 20 September, 2013, 11:18:05 am »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #17 on: 20 September, 2013, 11:19:12 am »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #18 on: 20 September, 2013, 11:20:47 am »
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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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #19 on: 20 September, 2013, 11:42:25 am »
Bagpuss is the best kids TV in the whole wide world...
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #20 on: 20 September, 2013, 01:37:02 pm »
Says someone who obviously never saw Pogle's Wood. </fondifdistantmemories>
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #21 on: 20 September, 2013, 01:51:38 pm »
Not old enough for Pogle's Wood  :smug:
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #22 on: 20 September, 2013, 01:56:42 pm »
<----- Remembers Pogle's Wood.

Bagpuss is miles better.


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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #23 on: 20 September, 2013, 02:18:59 pm »
I remember Pogles wood. I thought the witch was scary :(
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Re: Bagpuss
« Reply #24 on: 20 September, 2013, 02:53:28 pm »
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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