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your thoughts, please, on noggin the nog-oh and oliver postgate's autobiography

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 13:01

now, I didn't have a tv growing up, so all this bagpuss/clangers business is a bit lost on me, but dp very much into them and I do like the drawings and the welsh accents.

Now

First, has anyone got firsthand experience of this nogmaia business

and second, has anyone read oliver postgate's autobiography, called, I think, "seeing things" and is it any good? Here it is on amazon seeing things

thanks

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 23/10/2006 15:46

ah, a working,ens club

yes, that figures

now it hosts twice weekly salsa dancing and hairdressing classes. how the mighty have fallen

ps i do not go there to do salsa or hairdressing

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Blandmum · 23/10/2006 15:37

I think there were membership cards, it was, IIRC, a workingmans club.

I did my underage drinking in Treorchy Rugby club.

Stopped going when I was 18....the place was just getting too young for me! I'll go mental if dd does half the things that I did as a kid!

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 23/10/2006 15:35

does idris not mean "firey one" or similar? I have always loved that name.

am rofl at mb's brother's club. was there a monthly subscription and membership cards?

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IdrisTheDragon · 23/10/2006 15:24

This is true .

Blandmum · 23/10/2006 15:18

It was a 'club' I think, where much undersage drinking was done. before my time, as db is much older than I am

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 23/10/2006 15:13

and idris...well she has no chance, does she, if her mum is called idris!

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 23/10/2006 15:13

, did the coffin used to be a pub, or was that just where kids liked to drink? I shall take that thought with me henceforth

didn't have the nerve to buy them, frank....aaargh, can't decide...have bought 2x clangers (both series) , the autobiography, bagpuss cd and my god, while I was shopping a preorder for the winter book just fell into the basket

have just noticed that the moomin cartoon strip is coming out in book form. Are they trying to bankrupt me?

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IdrisTheDragon · 23/10/2006 09:14

I like Ivor the Engine .

As does DS.

And DH.

Not sure what DD thinks, but we will indoctrinate her soon I am sure .

Blandmum · 23/10/2006 08:45

My brother did all his underage drinking in the coffin!

I was Prince of Wales and a Red Cow girl....both in Treochy

FrannyandZooey · 23/10/2006 08:28

You've not bought all those Nogs

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 23/10/2006 08:17

aaargh long story mb, we go to the coffin though...

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 23/10/2006 08:16

have just made an somewhat large amazon purchase.

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TwoIfByScream · 22/10/2006 21:39

I borrowed his autobiography from the library years ago and found it really interesting, quite absorbing.

And I loved Noggin The Nog, it was such a dark saga though now I can't remember much about it, just images. Rather like the early Moomin series with the animation rather than cartoons (a reference just for you.)

Blandmum · 22/10/2006 18:34

My aunty used to live in Ynyswyn

Why do you go there? (me being Nosy now!)

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 18:11

treadmill dance

music for one apartment and six drummers (courtesy of NQC)

hooping

have fun, will add more as I remember them

rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 18:11

Thanks for the diy Ivor, Fillyjonk - I'm going to make one for DH's birthday!

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 18:08

oh I do love treorchy

It always seems very pleasent

my travels often take me to ynyswen.

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Blandmum · 22/10/2006 18:06

Treorchy

It always pisses with rain! The onlt time it didn't was the weekend I got married.

My kids can't believe how much it rains there.

We used to go to Cardiff on the train for 'special' shopping! Such fun!

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 18:05

well that effing narrows it down

male voice choirs are so scarce in the Rhondda.

Am in cardiff but I looooove the Rhondda, I drive up there twice a week (for a reason, not just cos I love it) and it always makes me happy. Even though it invariably pisses with rain.

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Blandmum · 22/10/2006 18:02

Where are you from.

Went to school in the place that has the male voice choir (she types cryptically)

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 17:59

no just nosy

maybe I do know you

you never know

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Blandmum · 22/10/2006 17:58

I liked Noggin the Nog

God that is a very odd thing to type!

GhoulsToo · 22/10/2006 17:57

I thought Noggin was utterly dull.

Blandmum · 22/10/2006 17:57

Top half, the big one

why do you 'know' me in RL?

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 17:57

(how completely strange, btw, on youtube. hmm.)

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