You know how Hamble used to get booted around the Playschool studio...

[CuppaTeaJanice]

Which character do you reckon Chris and Poi hoof around after filming 'Show Me Show Me'?

I reckon it's Stuffy.

...can you tell I'm bored?!!!!!!

None of them, because Chris and Pui shrink to toy-size when they are off air and the toys come to life and they all hang out together.

Didn't know they used to boot Hamble around but I don't blame them because I always disliked her. What sort of a name is Hamble anyway? What was that all about?

I didn't know that about Hamble (oh yes, ridiculous name can you imagine the fun we'd have with that on a babyname thread?) but surely Humpty was a better shape for kicking about?

from bbc website:

"Although it was originally a very common type of doll, sold in Woolworths, by the time Play School was in full flow there were only two Hambles in Britain. The other was owned by a woman in Chester, who would hire it to the BBC for £40 a week whenever the Play School regular was injured.

That happened quite often, as it wasn't just the audience who detested Hamble. None of the presenters could stand her either, so she'd get drop kicked across the studio, and once, when she wouldn't behave, Chloe Ashcroft took a dreadful liberty.

"I did a terrible thing to Hamble. She just would not sit up...so one day I got a very big knitting needle, a bit wooden one, and I stuck it right up her bum, as far as her head. So she was completely rigid, and she was much much better after that."

ROFL @ woman in Chester cashing in and Chloe Ashcroft's DIY Hamble surgery!