Bring back Trumpton & Camberwick Green

I hadn't realised it continued through the eighties and as far as the late nineties.

Mind you, I think my interest in schools' programmes ceased somewhere about nineteen sixty!

Music and Movement (Stage 1) for 5-7 year olds and Music and Movement (Stage 2) for 7-9 year olds changed names during the late seventies/early eighties to Let's Move and Time to Move respectfully.

On the subject of Schools Radio interesting to see that series like Time and Tune and SInging Together are still going today - SInging Together being the staple diet of most junior school music lessons since the fifties.

I don't quite remember back as far as MM&M. I'm told I watched Andy Pandy, but have no memorie of that at all.

Anyway, I was going to ask if that's the same Barnaby Bear from modern episodes of Watch, which is also shown on Cbeebies? I hate that programme. If I get to see the schools programmes on CBBC, it's usually on Every sentence the bear utters, seems to start, 'Look Dad'.

I shall be DJing dressed as Windy Miller tomorrow night!

Talking of programmes for schools..

There was a programme we used to watch at school. It was about a group of kids investigating some geezer they knew was stealing and selling - illegally- Peregrine falcon eggs.

I'dlove to watch that again.

And... The Famous Five. I loved Enid Blyton books. Mr. Pinkwhistle was my fave. The secret seven were ok but not as cool as Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.

You can, just wait until 'Sky Hunter' from the Look and Read series is next repeated on CBBC Class TV.

That was the work of Paul McKenna's mate, Victor Lewis Smith in his bygones column in the now bygone Sunday newspaper 'The Sunday Correspondent'

No young Mulder, Barnaby the Bear was a puppet animated programme, made by a French company. It was about a singing and dancing bear! God help us LOL!

Now where the hell do you get a Windy Miller costume? I'd must prefer dressing up as Mrs Honeybun but that's another story!

If you can remember the god-awful Barnaby The Bear, I'm surprised you have no recollection of Mary, Mungo and Midge - repeated extensively throughout the 1970's - long after Andy Pandy was retired in his original guise (don't suppose there's any footage of what himself and Looby-Loo got up to when the cameraman's back was turned ).

Ah, well, you see I don't remember the 70s Barnaby Bear, I only know the one that's on CBBC / CBeebies these days, which as TVF pointed out is completely different.

I only really remember stuff clearly once it gets past 1979/80. I was born in Nov 75, so I was still only 4 for most of 1980.

A Windy Miller costume isn't easy to buy all in one go. I made do with a very large sky-blue tshirt for the smock, a patterned red kneckerchief, and the wrong sort of brown hat. I couldn't get any cheap red trousers either, and the sideburns were a bit long. Still, some of my mates recognised who I was with little difficulty.

I see the BBC have bought Dangermouse, which they will be showing hacked to 15:9ish and with the end credits lopped off, the ****.

No - I'm pretty sure it'll be hacked to 14:9 exactly.

Now this is where you people start to confuse me, and i'm not referring to Dangermouse or the [ expletive deleted - heads].

I'll get my coat.