Factual inaccuracies on CBeebies!! Grrr

[duchesse]

I know it's only little things, but it was the attention to detail in 1970s programming that made is so fabulous.

I will put something on the Cbeebies message board when it reopens (currently closed)- I feel they are severely underestimating how much small children notice and remember and/or being sloppy. Just want to vent a bit here first!

Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin would NEVER have allowed bananas to by hung upside down (Zingzillas today) or cheese to be made with yoghurt instead of rennet (Bob the Builder yesterday). Nor would they have had Meg making cheese in one flipping DAY!!!!

oh dear

you need to go out

why wouldn't they hang bananas upside down

Flipping stuck indoors for the last 7 weeks with a broken ankle and DD3 will only open her mouth for breakfast if her eyes are busy watching this tripe!

On the trees, Baroque?

and you can make yoghurt cheese..........

and goats cheese, mozzarela and ricotta can be ready to eat the next day

you know the Zingzilla's aren't real yes? There aren't people that kind of look at a bit like monkey's, wearing those sorts of clothes with that colour hair and skin walking around.........

Oh, you think they might not be real bananas either? Well that would explain it. Just a shame they used REAL BANANAS!!!!

They were definitely making a hard cheese. It might have been goat I suppose but now you come to mention it it did loook more like curd cheese when they served it up. I can't believe that Meg's dairy will make any profit though if she has to use yoghurt all the time and only makes bland cheese. People like their speciality cheese to have some oomph don't they?

Some people are strange duchesse - I buy extra mature cheese these days to compensate for years of having to use poxy mild stuff for years when I was with exH........

Hope you're cast comes off soon

You should watch Milly & Molly on Tiny Pop, there's a woman on there called Aunt Maud not unlike you! You might find a kindred spirit in cartoon form.

I'm joking obviously, I think if somethings worth doing, do it properly! We are huuuge Pippin fans in this house and would love to see more like it.

Duchesse - feeling your pain - overdoses of cbeebies are not good (seriously overdosed here too) I swear once I can walk again I'm cutting the plug off the tv!!

How long until your cast is off?

Tuesday Loony!! Tuesday cannot come soon enough. How's yours?

Tuesday - Wow thats fantastic! I can definately see why you are getting frustrated.

10th March for me - taking comfort in the fact that it is less than 4 weeks now.

10th March is almost near, loony. Less than a month to go! I do hope you get some compensation from the driver for your time stuck at home...

For my part I will mostly be celebrating on Tuesday by having a long soak in a hot bath, after the plumber comes and mends the boiler in the afternoon (only a trickle of flipping hot water since Christmas- Christmas was not good to us this year...).

I'm being thick loony- it was sycamore who was knocked off her bike by a motorist, not you. Still, three (and a bit) weeks to go, three (and a bit) weeks to go!!

I sometimes email Cbeebies when I spot things. I complained about a Nina and the Neurons episode about milk because it did not mention breast milk.

I got a lovely email in response from the head of children's programming for BBC Scotland.

And no it did not call me a nutter.

DD has a book with a big fluffy spider in it.

The spider has 6 legs!! Not 8 But freaking 6! It just not acceptable tbh.

Well, put like that lockets....

I had another gripe this morning (when will the bloody child ever start to enjoy breakfast to the extent that we won't have to endure watch Bob the Builder??): "Let's Bob a house!" "Oh does anyone have any good ideas about what sort of house?" "Ooh we could do that and that" "Oh yes, let's!". They scratch a few holes in the turf and throw up a shack with a fireman's tower and all go home for tea.

Where were the bloody months of building regs and planning permission? The blue prints and plans? Why does every sodding episode have to end in a self-congratulatory wank-fest and warblings about team work? Why does he always tell the vehicles it's OK if they screwed up because they meant well?

memoo- are you sure it doesn't two teeny weeny ones tucked in at the front?

No it definitely only has 6. I have counted. Many times!

I understand Memoo- would obsess bother me as well. May have to craft two teeny weeny little extra legs for it if I were you. I'm bad enough at playgroup when we're singing Twinkle Twinkle. When we get to the "like a diamond in the sky" bit I whisper in DD's ear "although they're really like giant balls of flaming gas". `Just to even things up a bit.

You should make that into the last two lines of the song duchesse, somehow.

...Like a diamond in the sky,
Though they're really balls of gas,
Mozart needed a science class.
?

Duchesse do you know I am actually going to do that, I'm sure we have some pipe cleaners about that would make super spiders legs.

memoo- woman after my own (twisted) heart.