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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2015 6:57:37 GMT
A brief respite yesterday though Lou. Amidst all the garbage spewed out on a sunday afternoon was a little oasis of calm - Swallows and Amazons, made in 1974. I felt it was charming, showing how childhood once was with parents who were able to and allowed their kids to camp out on an island alone for days on end. Good grief can you imagine the furore if a parent even thought of that as a good idea now? Let your kids go off on a rickety little sailboat without supervision across one of the deepest lakes in uk, camp out alone on a small island, light fires, swim without lifeguards, catch and kill fish? The SS would have snatched those children off into care before you could even utter "Rotherham". Indeed parents today have to contend with never knowing if the next care-in-the-community nutjob or murderer out on parole is loitering about watching their children so this could never happen now, and thinking about it I feel that perhaps my generation were the last who could have enjoyed a freedom anywhere near the idyll of Swallows and Amazons, days spent by the river Thames in a makeshift pirate camp, getting dirty and appearing home in time for tea. All gone now sadly  We sat and watched it because firstly there was bugger-all else on worth watching as sunday seems to be the day the stations repeat all the repeats they've shown during the week. I'm glad I did though as it brought back some happy memories of times long since forgotten  |
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Post by ScrabblyWabbly on Jul 13, 2015 16:23:39 GMT
A brief respite yesterday though Lou. Amidst all the garbage spewed out on a sunday afternoon was a little oasis of calm - Swallows and Amazons, made in 1974. I felt it was charming, showing how childhood once was with parents who were able to and allowed their kids to camp out on an island alone for days on end. Good grief can you imagine the furore if a parent even thought of that as a good idea now? Let your kids go off on a rickety little sailboat without supervision across one of the deepest lakes in uk, camp out alone on a small island, light fires, swim without lifeguards, catch and kill fish? The SS would have snatched those children off into care before you could even utter "Rotherham". Indeed parents today have to contend with never knowing if the next care-in-the-community nutjob or murderer out on parole is loitering about watching their children so this could never happen now, and thinking about it I feel that perhaps my generation were the last who could have enjoyed a freedom anywhere near the idyll of Swallows and Amazons, days spent by the river Thames in a makeshift pirate camp, getting dirty and appearing home in time for tea. All gone now sadly We sat and watched it because firstly there was bugger-all else on worth watching as sunday seems to be the day the stations repeat all the repeats they've shown during the week. I'm glad I did though as it brought back some happy memories of times long since forgotten I have only ever caught bits of Swallows and Amazons, they usually only seem to air it on Christmas Day. Have read all the books though and they are fab, just a bunch of kids actually being kids. I was quite an introverted kid, used to love reading however even I spent many happy times in the fields and the woods near I life mucking about and getting muddy. It helps with your imagination and creativity I feel. My friend said she has brought an iPad for the birthday of her four year old so no doubt he will be glued to that rather than getting out and having adventures. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2015 8:18:59 GMT
My granddaughter comes here loaded up with all her tech stuff. For all that gubbins brought with her she's outside all day long getting filthy, she climbs trees, drives her tractor & trailer about with a collection of hens in the back going for a ride, wandering about with chickens following her, she swims in our pond with the dogs and is crashed out by 8.30pm with exhaustion. All her gadgetry remains unused in her bag. Thats how childhood should be surely and whilst I know it cannot be that way for all kids I'm rather pleased that Liv can spend a few weeks here doing all that rather than be stuck in front of the telly or glued to her Ipad throughout the summer holiday. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 15, 2015 4:26:47 GMT
What a perfect holiday your granddaughter is having escargot.
And you`re right - it`s how childhood should be.
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Post by EveT1991 on Aug 24, 2015 10:24:40 GMT
So many classics one of my favourites was called The Tribe, it use to air every sunday on C5, I loved that show was gutted when it got cancelled. And Grange Hill and Byker Grove I use to watch a lot after school. I loved The Tribe as well. |
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Post by CAEF on Aug 24, 2015 11:13:42 GMT
Kids shows, well proper kids shows were Raggy Dolls, Button Moon and Sooty, not the garbage they have now where they use chavspeak and encourage you to dress up like Cheryl Cole at 10 years old.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2015 11:49:12 GMT
Earlier this year my granddaughter went along to the filming of one of these terrible kid's shows with her friends. I watched it only because she might have been on it (and she was. Right up the front dancing).
However it was a dreadful programme. Some spotty faced oik saying "d'ya knaa wot I mean.............." every other sentence, those two kids who allegedly rapped some terrible ditty on Britain's Got Talent (Bars & Melody I think they were). Also we got a couple of girls aged 14 that looked like they were 25 instead, and some boy who was lied to when his Mummy told him he could dance attempting to teach the audience how to dance like he did. Frankly Ashley in Emmerdale danced better in front of Dan the other night than this boy did 
Truthfully it was absolute rubbish but then most kids programming is now because the dramas seem to consist of more spotty oiks stomping about the countryside or weeing on lampposts since they are werewolves, or of course they are vampires. Another dire one was Tracy Beaker - more Agendas in operation than in Corrie.
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Post by EveT1991 on Aug 24, 2015 12:45:27 GMT
Arthur
SMTV Live
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Post by CollieWobbles on Aug 24, 2015 14:52:32 GMT
My granddaughter comes here loaded up with all her tech stuff. For all that gubbins brought with her she's outside all day long getting filthy, she climbs trees, drives her tractor & trailer about with a collection of hens in the back going for a ride, wandering about with chickens following her, she swims in our pond with the dogs and is crashed out by 8.30pm with exhaustion. All her gadgetry remains unused in her bag. Thats how childhood should be surely and whilst I know it cannot be that way for all kids I'm rather pleased that Liv can spend a few weeks here doing all that rather than be stuck in front of the telly or glued to her Ipad throughout the summer holiday. Escargot, your granddaughter's holiday sounds like perfection! I spent my childhood in a similar way, playing in fields, ditches, woods and streams, only going back home for dinner or tea! No matter how many times I hurt myself I'd be straight back out next day, I don't think I ever went home once without either grazed knees or torn clothing  . Happiest days I've ever had. I thank my lucky stars I didn't grow up in these killjoy current times. |
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Post by CollieWobbles on Sept 10, 2015 20:49:10 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 14:27:31 GMT
I watched 'Toms Midnight Garden' again over the weekend.A truly exceptional kids show.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 14:37:49 GMT
What a fascinating experiment. If I was around these kids, Tesco`s would be all out of carbolic soap that I`d use to ram down their throats. Foul mouthed little cretins. Lets compare Postman Pat to Barney the dinosaur which was shown a decade apart. Postman Pat was entertaining, Barney was annoying. What a shame those kids weren`t shown Camberwick Green or Mr Benn. When my son was 3, there was a series of VHS tapes about construction vehicles called Hard Hat Harry. My son loved those so much, and watched them so many times he had them memorised. We had to order more as he wore them out. When my youngest son was 4, SpongeBob had just started. He adored that show. I bought him a Sponge Bob lunch box which he carried everywhere with him. |
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Post by CollieWobbles on Sept 15, 2015 22:45:26 GMT
What a fascinating experiment. If I was around these kids, Tesco`s would be all out of carbolic soap that I`d use to ram down their throats. Foul mouthed little cretins. Lets compare Postman Pat to Barney the dinosaur which was shown a decade apart. Postman Pat was entertaining, Barney was annoying. What a shame those kids weren`t shown Camberwick Green or Mr Benn. When my son was 3, there was a series of VHS tapes about construction vehicles called Hard Hat Harry. My son loved those so much, and watched them so many times he had them memorised. We had to order more as he wore them out. When my youngest son was 4, SpongeBob had just started. He adored that show. I bought him a Sponge Bob lunch box which he carried everywhere with him. What exactly did American kids watch then, whilst we were watching Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Rosie and Jim, Sooty, Noddy and so on? The only Barney I knew of when I was little was a big old English sheepdog who had a field mouse living in the hair on his head! I love what they put about Farthing Wood, they'd be scarred for life if they'd seen all of it and I'm not sure if I should be chuffed or shamed that I was such a fan of the show, I know exactly which episode they were referring to just from the little snippets they've said about it redface4 |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 15, 2015 23:17:59 GMT
What a fascinating experiment. If I was around these kids, Tesco`s would be all out of carbolic soap that I`d use to ram down their throats. Foul mouthed little cretins. Lets compare Postman Pat to Barney the dinosaur which was shown a decade apart. Postman Pat was entertaining, Barney was annoying. What a shame those kids weren`t shown Camberwick Green or Mr Benn. When my son was 3, there was a series of VHS tapes about construction vehicles called Hard Hat Harry. My son loved those so much, and watched them so many times he had them memorised. We had to order more as he wore them out. When my youngest son was 4, SpongeBob had just started. He adored that show. I bought him a Sponge Bob lunch box which he carried everywhere with him. [/b] The only Barney I knew of when I was little was a big old English sheepdog who had a field mouse living in the hair on his head! I love what they put about Farthing Wood, they'd be scarred for life if they'd seen all of it and I'm not sure if I should be chuffed or shamed that I was such a fan of the show, I know exactly which episode they were referring to just from the little snippets they've said about it redface4 [/quote]When Rosie and Jim came out, Barney the purple dinosaur was popular. So was Shari lewis Lamb Chop which had just been revived in the early 90`s. When my oldest started school, his fave show was 'the Magic School Bus'. Then when my oldest son was 12 his fave kids tv show was believe it or nor...'How2'. It was shown on the Nickelodeon channel, and he had a huge crush on Carol Vorderman. He also loved a show which I can`t think of the name of it. It was a British kids tv show that was similar to Mythbusters. Another fave tv show was Power Rangers. He had all the action figures. But Tonka construction vehicles were his fave toys. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2015 6:53:36 GMT
I have three sons so I've seen it all over the past thirty years of kid's telly.
The American kids shows were appalling in the late 1980s. One that springs immediately to mind is the biggest pile of trash ever created, a truly dreadful series called Saved By The Bell containing a bunch of little smartarses at high school getting the better of the idiot teachers and the buffoon of a headmaster, all the while striding about being magnificent in three bucketfulls of hair gel and high-top basketball boots. Awful. My eldest boys sat glued to this trash, indeed it was the only thing that ever stopped them fighting each other for more than ten minutes:)
I see kids telly now when I have my granddaughter here but I wish I hadn't because it is dire, indeed its worse than the garbage my own kids watched. All the kids dramas seem to be either about vampire families living in the woods in Wales with relatives who turn into wolves on full moons, or its the usual "Kids in care" scenario with their terrible parents appearing to ruin their idyllic life in care.
Bring back Bagpuss I say!
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. Happiest days I've ever had. I thank my lucky stars I didn't grow up in these killjoy current times.