Heave Charlie mouse…..

‘Alo little o’ld lady’
I had a yawning bagpuss but failed to gain custody in the divorce 😥
Abandoned the poor little fella..

So painful I typed it twice… 🙁

CFH my kids only get to watch carefully selected dvd’s (unless it’s my wife choosing them) – the first having been shown Ivor initially followed by Bagpuss. She loves to draw and does fantastic little carton strips.

Smallfilms were just brilliant and the best bit is Bagpuss can’t be aaccused of noncing unlike the rest of my childhood celebs.

Bagpuss Bagpuss
old fat furry catpuss
wake up and look
at this thing that I bring
wake up, be bright, be golden and light
bagpuss o hear what I sing

Funny what you remember all your life.

Bagpuss was after my time. Pogles Wood is where it’s at. (Also Smallfims)

In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale of Noggin the Nog.

Still gives me shivers.

Mooncat, choc-a-bloc, Button Moon and the Moomins (the proper one, none of that cartoon nonsense) make up some of my earliest and most treasured TV memories. My old Lab had a B’Puss toy from when he was a pup and it remained in pristine condition until he died. That dog had impeccable taste in toys 🙂

Oliver Postgate’s voice comes on the telly and immediately I’m a kid again.
Happy days.

Derek Griffiths too, can’t help smiling when he’s on.

Made in the garage, weren’t they? And the B&W photo is Peter Firmin’s daughter Emily I believe, outside their house. Classic children’s TV and I made sure my children watched them too.

But Ivor the Engine was genius.

Clangers! When we were weaning my son the only thing that could get him to focus for long enough to get a decent feed inside him was Clangers, otherwise he got bored and then stroppy. Thank **** for Clangers. I could probably still recite it end-to-end with a bit of prompting, we wore out the Season 1 DVD completely…

A mate of mine interviewed Oliver Postgate once. He said it was like talking to God, because his voice had been such a distinctive and fundamental part of his early childhood.

Slightly mean looking version lives here…

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