Whimsical Kitten

The final post in my nostalgia series.

Le Menage Enchante was originally a French creation adapted for British television by Eric Thompson. My favourite character was grumpy old Dougal, for whom the glass was always half empty and everything was always just too much effort. In this episode Ermentrude thinks she is a bus.

I also have the movie Dougal & The Blue Cat, which I really must watch again sometime.

Another treat from the Postgate and Firmin partnership, the music and characters take me back to a very happy place in my childhood.

I fondly recall reading every Moomin book I could get my hands on when I was about 12 years old. In this episode Thingumy & Bob turn up at the Moomin household with a suitcase warning that the Groke is coming, but don’t mention that reason she is coming is that they have stolen her suitcase.

I got the job

I got Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows.

I got a Nintendo DS Lite (in white) and Brain Training.

I am as happy as a pig in mud.

Just a snap shot of our experience at Latitude 2007.

We had a wonderful chilled festival, the only disappointment was not meeting up with our friends Julia & Louis – sorry guys – hope to catch up soon.

Five wonderful wobbling minutes of canine genius!

Festive Road is a bit like Meadow Road where my husband grew up, in fact those two boys playing with wooden swords in the opening scene, could have been Andy and Ben many moons ago. This is one of Ben’s all time favourites.

No dialogue and at times a little psychedelic! One girl with big blue hair, a very short a-line dress, her dog and some whimsical story-lines. I still love it and have all episodes on video!

Suffering seaweed it’s a ship full of incompetent fat pirates! Thank goodness for Tom the Cabin Boy!

This planet, this cloudy planet is earth, it is our home, the place where you and I live, but supposing we look away from the earth and travel in our imaginations across the vast endless stretches of outer space, there we can imagine other stars, stranger stars by far than ever shone in our night sky, and other stranger people too, people perhaps who’s civilisation, skill and efficiency maybe far in advance of ours……..