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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 · 22/10/2006 17:56

hmmm. I can see you are not saying.

(I know the Rhondda I meant which bit)

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Blandmum · 22/10/2006 17:50

'The' one The Rhondda.

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 17:50

oh boy are you in for a treat

will post some favourite links, later

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 17:48

well I didn't think so...but I didn't want to be rude...

which valley are you from then?

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 17:48

(wft is youtube, frank)?

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Blandmum · 22/10/2006 17:47

Not many valleys in the LLyn are there??

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 17:46

ah yes, those valleys

no, am not disputing this at all. I had thought though Ivor is Angelsey or maybe Lleyn Penninsula? Oh also, that it wasn't actually set in the 70s but earlier, maybe turn of the century.

Ah, have found a fab present for ds this year anyway

diy ivor

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rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 17:21

If you do get them, you must post a picture!

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 17:18

Oh lordy I must try to get him some for Christmas, rusty. He has a superb furry lion's head thing that covers his entire head - the feet would just finish it off

rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 17:11

Like this but orange

Blandmum · 22/10/2006 17:07

Oh, poor man. How sad!

rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 17:07

I did actually have some tiger feet slippers - with claws on, but I got rid of them after I fell downstairs wearing them!

rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 17:05

Seen this mb?

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 17:05

Ds certainly loves it, he treats visitors to a great rendition including all the dances

He thinks "Tiger Feet" are someone's dressing up clothes, though. He keeps asking if we can get some

Blandmum · 22/10/2006 17:01

I have seen them do it live!

They were bloody great!

rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 16:59

There must be something about Tiger Feet - my DS loved it when he was 3...

Blandmum · 22/10/2006 16:58

Not the top left hand part of wales, but the bottom, middle bit of wales had lots! None brought their elephants though

The local Chinese doctors children went to the local Welsh speaking school and thus ended up tri lingual.

One of the daughters ws waiting at the bus stop and my aunty pitched up, wondered how long the bus would be and asked the girl, 'Have you been here long?' (meaning at the bus stop).

The girl said 'All my life!'

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 16:56

An ex bf liked them a lot rusty, they always looked twee and odd to me (probably how Clangers etc look if you haven't been brought up with them)

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 16:55

Well it is how it affects them physically that bothers me the most, Filly

I won't go all Steiner on you but can recommend books if you want more info

Anyway we don't watch anything at the moment - the theory is no tv before 7, but as dp points out "he won't want to watch Bagpuss when he is 7". Can't see why not, myself, but there you go...

He has however watched a bit of YouTube and was very taken with Mud singing Tiger Feet. He has had an entire branch of Sainsburys in fits by singing "THAT'S NEAT THAT'S NEAT THAT'S NEAT THAT'S NEAT I REALLY LOVE YOUR TIGER FEET" with exceptional clarity and volume

rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 16:55

Anyway here are the Pogles in all their (black and white) glory

FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 16:51

MB but were there faintly amusing Indian elephant trainers, that is the question?

(because of course we demand authenticity in a series which featured singing trains, talking dragons and someone called Mrs Porty)

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 16:51

were there, mb?

in the top left hand corner of wales?

I stand completely corrected then.

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rustycreakingdoorbear · 22/10/2006 16:50

It's fine , don't worry

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FillyjonkthePumpkinEater · 22/10/2006 16:49

no I guess its that I don't watch any tv, really, the dc watch bits if, say, they are sick, but not routinely, say once a month or something (and actually dd is not fussed anyway). Actually ds only sits still long enough if he is sick . But am loving Bagpuss, it really seems like something that is nice to watch as a family.

I love plays etc, we always do a bunch of puppet shows and so on in london with the dc, so I guess, for me, tv is just like that really, only smaller.

And I do like deconstructing adverts.

I've never really thought about tv cos I am far to disorganised to a. find cbeebies b. find out what time stuff is on at so actually, this is quite a new idea for me-I thought my kids did watch tv! though actually they have only ever seen the odd dvd.

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FrannyandZooey · 22/10/2006 16:49

(sorry it was just meant to be funny in a rude way - feel free to call me a spinach botherer, or something)

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