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He looks it.

Always thought you looked like a woollen pussy.

"Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams"

yep, that's me alright.

Huh. I was too old for Bagpuss.

While driving along a little country road we found a bagbuss sitting in the middle of the road. No cars had passed us and no one was about - so we rescued him. We then bought the dvd which is one of my youngests favourite. Also Ivor the engine, simply sublime.

Before my time, I now feel slightly not so bad about my old age.

Emily loved him

Emily loved him

🙂

I always forget to mention this in 'what makes you cry' threads, but the intro to bagpuss while not leading to full blown tears always gives me a smile and a teeny lump in the throat.

I used to do a mean Charlie Mouse impression, then i had acute laryngitis and damaged my vocal chords, and now have no top register in my singing or speaking voice. Charlie Mouse, is sadly, therefore, no more.

I imagine certain folks on here as being very much like Professor Yaffle. Real know it alls, scoffing at the impetuous types, only to get their come-uppance in the end.

Sparks, as and when (or if, if her current levels are anything to go by!) Little Miss CFH shows any interest in a television, Bagpuss and Ivor are going to be at the top of the list!

Psssh-t-cuff, psssh-t-cuff....

Ah, the dragon in the firebox!

Idris

Bit too young for Bagpuss but having two nephews (4 & 7 and parents who do want to relive Bagpuss) means I'm now watching uTube repeats of this and Mary Mungo & Midge, Hectors House and Andy Pandy... and my Fave, Top Cat.

😆

And so their work was done.
Bagpuss gave a big yawn and settled down to sleep
And, of course, when Bagpuss goes to sleep,
All his friends go to sleep too.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was a carved, wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.
Even Bagpuss himself, once he was asleep, was just an old, saggy cloth cat,
Baggy, and a bit loose at the seams,
But Emily loved him.

Mary, Mungo & Midge, I used to love that one.

At 40+, I'm still tempted to buy a Bagpuss soft toy 😀

This is what was inflicted on my childhood. Crikey, how did we make it past the action packed intro?

The Herbs closely followed by Hectors House were my favourites.

I've got a Bagpuss soft toy. It sits in the chair by the fire and makes a yawning sound when you pick it up.

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I've got a Bagpuss soft toy. It sits in the chair by the fire and makes a yawning sound when you pick it up.

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Want.......

+1 😀

the marvelous mouse organ ... we will mend it, we will fix it ... heave heave heave.. we will mend it, we will fix it.

🙂 happy days..
M'old..

and the mice sang:

We will find it
We will bind it
We will stick it with glue glue glue
We will stickle it
Every little bit of it
We fix it like new new new.

Last christmas I got a charlie mouse toy for my sister, who is called Emily, which sang this song when you pressed it's tummy.

Don't forget Prof.

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Ah yes...the Woodentops.

wtf was bod about

Bod and Aunt Flo? Epic.

Daaaad, this is rubbish you can see the strings!
Oh well... we loved it.
Noggin the Nog anyone? o-err missis

Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley.

Memories of young childhood. 😛

Wish I was young enough for Bagpuss - it was The Woodentops, The Flowerpot Men and Andy Pandy for me.

I'm going to say it. I have an image of TJ in my head that is basically Prof Yaffle. Shaking his head and saying 'A crash helmet! On a bicycle? Fiddlesticks and flapdoodle! Nyaff nyaff nyaff nyaff nyaff'

My Fave..

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I'm going to say it. I have an image of TJ in my head that is basically Prof Yaffle.

based on Bertrand Russell apparently....

Bagpuss is my hero...

Here's mine.

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Mr Benn, I loved that but he is the worst retail customer ever of a very badly run shop. How does the poor shopkeeper make any money on that business model. all those adventures and I never saw him pay and the shop let him get away with it.

Maybe that's why there were so few episodes the shop went bust.

B'puss, Mr B & Bod all great, but these used to scare the bejesus out of me:

So did the [url=

just not right.

Heave Charlie mouse.....

'Alo little o'ld lady'
I had a yawning bagpuss but failed to gain custody in the divorce 😥
Abandoned the poor little fella..

So painful I typed it twice... 🙁

CFH my kids only get to watch carefully selected dvd's (unless it's my wife choosing them) - the first having been shown Ivor initially followed by Bagpuss. She loves to draw and does fantastic little carton strips.

Smallfilms were just brilliant and the best bit is Bagpuss can't be aaccused of noncing unlike the rest of my childhood celebs.

Bagpuss Bagpuss
old fat furry catpuss
wake up and look
at this thing that I bring
wake up, be bright, be golden and light
bagpuss o hear what I sing

Funny what you remember all your life.

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Bagpuss was after my time. Pogles Wood is where it's at. (Also Smallfims)

In the lands of the North, where the black rocks stand guard against the cold sea, in the dark night that is very long, the men of the Northlands sit by their great log fires and they tell a tale of Noggin the Nog.

Still gives me shivers.

Mooncat, choc-a-bloc, Button Moon and the Moomins (the proper one, none of that cartoon nonsense) make up some of my earliest and most treasured TV memories. My old Lab had a B'Puss toy from when he was a pup and it remained in pristine condition until he died. That dog had impeccable taste in toys 🙂

Oliver Postgate's voice comes on the telly and immediately I'm a kid again.
Happy days.

Derek Griffiths too, can't help smiling when he's on.

Made in the garage, weren't they? And the B&W photo is Peter Firmin's [url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005nhdl ]daughter[/url] Emily I believe, outside their house. Classic children's TV and I made sure my children watched them too.

But Ivor the Engine was genius.

Clangers! When we were weaning my son the only thing that could get him to focus for long enough to get a decent feed inside him was Clangers, otherwise he got bored and then stroppy. Thank **** for Clangers. I could probably still recite it end-to-end with a bit of prompting, we wore out the Season 1 DVD completely...

A mate of mine interviewed Oliver Postgate once. He said it was like talking to God, because his voice had been such a distinctive and fundamental part of his early childhood.

Slightly mean looking version lives here...

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