to want my life to be like topsy & tim's mums' life?

[ladyflower23]

I.e. house always tidy, children always do what I say/never have tantrums/I never lose my shit with them? I can also do arts and crafts and make cakes and have perfect make up while I'm doing it?

House always today... No way. Every time I see it I think it looks messy.

Today?!?! I obviously meant tidy. Whoops.

I wish there was a T&T after hours show, that shows the mum sobbing into a bottle of gin in the airing cupboard

Agreed

We too most closely resemble Justin's House, but instead of the robot and singing we have a Grumpy Git in the Corner

Yes to Flop.
Next in line is Granny Island from Katie Morag - she clearly doesn't give a toss about most things. Although I can't watch that without tutting and wondering why KM's mother doesn't make her put on some tights.

The Ahlberg books are like my house...

She does often look slightly manic/insane like she could crack at any second. I remember that one when Tim had a sore throat and refused to eat his breakfast. I got excited thinking that Joy might lose it and tip it over his head then dad ruined it by diagnosing his sore throat.

Did anyone see yesterday's episode when they broke Joy's favourite vase and tried to fix it but when they couldn't they owned up and she said 'I'm only cross with you because if you had told me sooner we could all of had fun fixing it together!'. WHAT THE FUUUUUUUUUU???!!! Then my DS goes 'I'm going to break your vase mummy' and I shouted said 'no you're not!!' and he looked disappointed, not just about the vase, but that I'm his mother

That actress is 38. I though she was about 26.

I want her moisturiser.

The tv series isn't very true to the 70's books where Tim is grumpy & sulky most days and ruins every day out e.g. T & T meet the dinosaurs( must get out more...)

Iron lung, perhaps unconsciously that's right but she disputes that reading. Have heard her say so.

My DCs love T&T.

It has become obvious, however, that compared to Joy I am profoundly lacking in the motherhood stakes.

Luckily, my kids seem happy to keep it firmly in the realm of fiction. Up there with Charlie & Lola and Sarah & Duck as something enjoyable and diverting but not actually linked to their real life in any way thank fuck.

YY to both Joy and Dad mainlining vodka after hours.

I always thought tiger was about depression. The mother has depression and can't manage cooking and bathing Sophie. When daddy gets home he is very unsurprised by the story and just takes them out for tea - it is clearly a story mummy has made up in the spur of the moment having seen a ginger stripy cat outside (there is one outside the house on the next page).

And topsy and tim's house is not tidy it's v messy

I think Joy is secretly a hard-nosed, two-faced, gin-mainliner too. Perhaps it is the pressure of having that moniker. I am also sure that at school events she goes to great lengths to make sure she has baked the best cakes etc. Having said that, I did cry at the final episode when T&T (finally!) started school

My Cbeebies AIBU would be AIBU to want to move to Katie Morag's Isle of Struay?

Has anyone else noticed that Topsy is moonlighting on Bing - presumably Flop hits the gin after Coco-Topsy has gone home. Explains the uncanny calmness in the face of Bing PUTTING FLOPS BROKEN PHONE IN THE BIN, THE SODDING BIN! The naughty step, for Chrissakes, or he'll never learn

and breathe...

I wish I could be like Flop.

But OP you'd have to actually live with Topsy and Tim and their non stop fucking cheeriness. Also I imagine that every day you drop them at nursery people would think 'wtf are you bringing an 8 year old here for?'

Flop is clearly on drugs. Bing is a butterfly murderer but never mind 'it's a bing thing'.

There is a bit of aggro in the T & T books. When they go to the doctor, one of the twins (Tim?) won't eat his breakfast (due to an as yet undiagnosed sore throat). Mum is pissed off, dad isn't but mum dismisses this as because "dad hadn't made the breakfast".

That's him told.

Love the T&T farm book because I grew up on a farm and the description of how to wean a calf was exactly what we used to do.

Flop is an inspiration that I fail to live up to.

Well, WE have the same tablecloth as Topsy and Tim's!

Also a fair amount of Ikea and a grumpy boy .

And I think you lot are forgetting "Dad's smelly football kit". That house is a maelstrom of disorder, and I feel sorry for control-freak Joy!

i do wear heels and dresses and retro styled underwear everyday :) but sadly do not have lovely even temper of T&T mum....I want to live in teletubby land ( showing age now...dc well past cbeebies) with the noo noo to clear up mess and just pink custard and toast to eat ...yummy

tiger that came to tea....i thought was about the little girl's greediness...and a look at social norms at the time, when women encouraged girls not to be greedy or eat much because society had a certain expectation of the way they looked. The mother always looks so disapproving as the tiger eats...i thought the tiger represented the little girl's alter ego ...but think the depression explanation is more reasoned and realistic.

Yes my house is like justin's too!

I have a brother called Robert but sadly he won't come and do the housework.