ADs take the National Express when their lives' in a mess, it will make them smile

[BogRollBOGOF]

🎤On the National Express
There’s a jolly hostess
Giving porridge free
She’ll provide you with shots
amaretto or what
You like to seeeeee...

Going out was in style
Now we’re stuck in this aisle
Dream of being free
And it’s hard to get by
When your arse is the size
Of the furlough feeeeeee🎤

Bah ba ba la
Bah ba ba la

Tomorrow belongs to meee...

Welcome to the 17:38 to freedom, stopping at virtual hugs, critical discourse, and random tangents along the way. ETA unknown...

[ISaySteadyOn]

Charlie and Lola! I liked them too. I had this odd idea that they lived in Muswell Hill. No idea why but then they had a field trip to London so they can't live there.

@110APiccadilly, you can't avoid telly forever but you can discriminate. Everyone on this thread should be listened to.

[Curlygirl06]

I miss Balamory. My kids loved it, not seen it for years and when my grandson was a toddler it was shown again. After all those years I STILL remembered the words to the song. Happy days

[Orangeblossom7777]

Found you. Procrastinating here from dull hoovering - can't face lugging out the henry s might just leave it. Have to clear a cupoard as the washing machine is leaking. What excitement here. Have been for a bastarding walk - dads and mums with little toddlers pottering about which was quite sweet in the park.

[HitchikersGuide]

@Reedwarbler

I saw an interesting article in the Telegraph online yesterday. A survey has been taken of people's perceptions of covid. Details that stuck out were that most people (surveyed) thought that the majority of deaths were in the over 65's. (They are actually in the over 80's.) Also that it has been the biggest case of death this year (It was the 24th biggest in the Spring, and is currently the 19th biggest). They also thought that one in three get 'long covid' (actually about one in twenty as far as I remember). They also thought quite a high percentage of the population had been killed, although simple maths would tell you that is not so.

This! The press have got a lot to answer for. I think this is why I feel so depressed: the actual effects of this stuff on me are few and bearable; but the feeling that I am alone in a dystopia where the majority of people seem to be on a different planet is not bearable at all.

[HitchikersGuide]

On kids TV I had to force mine to watch as there was no interest there at all. First thing that worked was Night Garden for which I still have a soft spot.
Don't kill me in one of the many and varied murder sprees, but I love Peppa [goes and hides!] - just the other day, I was doing my really v good impression of George crying!!

[DrDiva]

@110APiccadilly you just have to have a tv that breaks easily or keep losing the batteries in the remote.

I love a bit of Balamory too! Though that was definitely an entire village on the funny stuff.

DS knows of the existence of Netflix but hates reading, and hasn’t yet worked out that if he could read better he could find his own stuff there. Maybe there is a bright side to his reluctance after all. ( he can read perfectly well, but pretends not to at school so they don’t give him hard books. this boy will probably go far.)

[110APiccadilly]

Am enjoying the sanity-saving suggestions for kids' TV - must note them somewhere for future reference.

[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

I remember Charlie and Lola, Numberjacks and Horrible Histories and I think alphablocks were just coming in.

I think Charlie and Lola and Numberjacks we had DVDS of for times we need them to be still for a bit. I think many poster don't like Numberjacks any more think bits are scary but mine loved them.

Though I remember Horrible Histories being a relief as it's so watchable so maybe I've blocked the rest out - it was older relatives who seemed taken with In The Night Garden.

[110APiccadilly]

I'm going to get lynched (albeit probably in a historically accurate fashion while someone songs a song about it) but I hate Horrible Histories! Always have done - I remember a friend having the books when I was a child and hating those. Don't ask me to explain it, it just gets on my nerves for some reason.

[NannyGythaOgg]

@MissEWeatherwax Can just lower the tone and say how pleased I am that Peter Sutcliffe is dead.

I used to have a bedsit in the middle of the area he was picked up in. I lived there during the first 2 years when he was killing, though the night he was arrested would have been his first Sheffield murder. By the time he was picked up I was married with 2 children. Which demonstrates how long he got away with it.

[LadyOfTheImprovisedBath]

DS is only one of mine that's read the Horrible history books - though he's also read the Horrible science and Geography ones as well.

Other two have shown no interest despite the book being around the house -the girls seem to move from horrible history TV series to Lucy Worsley programs to wider history programs.

I can see it won't be everyone cup of tea though - have to wonder if it all the chidlren's TV for years before that soften you up for it.

[HereComesYourMam]

I was always a bit sad that DS wasn't really into Balamory - I lived in Tobermory (where it was filmed) for a while and loved the nostalgia trip.

[WouldBeGood]

@110APiccadilly I don’t like them abd was deeply grateful my dcs didn’t

[TabbyStar]

DD loved Numberjacks. On the other hand I had to tell her the TV was broken to stop her watching the Tiny Pop channel though, that really was mindless, annoying shite, I knew it had to stop when she was walking around singing the advert jingles.

[Curlygirl06]

@110APiccadilly

Am enjoying the sanity-saving suggestions for kids' TV - must note them somewhere for future reference.

Stick with me, kid, I know them all! My grandson doesn't have normal tv at his house, it's dvd's, Netflix and Amazon prime so when he's here he likes wall to wall cbeebies (interspersed with Lego and lunch, I'm not a complete monster!) We sing along to all the songs, dance with each other and generally have a fab time.

HereComesYourMam I loved that you lived there, have they kept the houses painted in different colours? The whole village (Balamory I mean) was bloody odd but I loved it!

[TheOrchidKiller]

@110APicadilly
We used to record 30 mins a day of CBeebies & pretend that was the only children's TV there was. Eldest child was in reception before she twigged.

We had to suffer The Fimbles. And don't get me started on The Teletubbies...

I called into a garden centre after work & I feel so much better for looking at the pretty & unnecessary items on offer.

[dingit]

My dh has a colleague called Josie. He calls her josie jump. She's a childless 30 something and looks at him like

[Willow2017]

Mine loved Balamory. We went there during a holiday. 'Miss Hoollies' house had been repainted a horrid navy blue!
Ds1 was about a year old and loved Fimbles. Got a cuddly toy for his birthday that he loved for years😄

Numberjacks were terrifying wtf was that all about?

[Willow2017]

Oh and we all loved Abney and Teal. Very surreal in a lovely cozy comforting way😄

[BogRollBOGOF]

I used to like getting home from work and crashing out in front of In The Night Garden. Alas my children didn't find it soporific, but then it was very tiring bejng a teacher don'tcha know (especially with about 4-5 years of broken nights)

[SufferingFromLongLockdown]

The animals of farthing wood was always good for something with a soothing soundtrack.
Little bear was also very gentle.

My kids couldn't cope with me too and the kids going in day care while their parents had adventures.

[DominaShantotto]

@SufferingFromLongLockdown

The animals of farthing wood was always good for something with a soothing soundtrack.
Little bear was also very gentle.

My kids couldn't cope with me too and the kids going in day care while their parents had adventures.

God NO NO NO NO NO! The hedgehogs!

Scarred a generation of kids that cartoon!

As an extension of the "cards to kill OAPs" one I give you this line from our school's newsletter this week:

"We will then hold the cards in ‘quarantine’ over the weekend before sorting and distributing them the following week. Those sorting the cards will wear gloves."

For. Fucks. Sake.

[SirSamuelVimes]

Good god, NOT the Animals of Farthing Wood! That was just unrelenting trauma.

[Curlygirl06]

@SirSamuelVimes

Good god, NOT the Animals of Farthing Wood! That was just unrelenting trauma.

My kids loved it, although they used to cry a lot at it, I must find it for the grandchildren.

Old Bear and friends was lovely, my daughter now reads the books to her children.

[HereComesYourMam]

@Curlygirl06 they started filming it the year after I was there, and I haven't been back, but I imagine it's much the same... the houses were always famously colourful, it's a very pretty place.