Sadly Oliver Postgate, creator of Bagpuss, teh Clangers, Ivor the Engine and many more childrens programmes died today, aged 83.
So, I have been reliving my youth and spending the day watching classic episodes of Bagpuss such as the "The ship in a bottle" episode or my personal favourite, "The Mouse Mill." I really wanted there to be a chocolate biscuite factory, but sadly it was all a fraud.
And when Bagpuss was asleep,Nothing evokes my memories from thirty years ago more than that passage.
All his friends were asleep.
The mice were ornaments on the mouse organ.
Gabriel and Madeleine were just dolls.
Professor Yaffle was just an old 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
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Oh my. I *adored* Bagpuss and was telling my teenagers the other day who Bagpuss was and how, when I was a little girl, I really wanted a Bagpuss of my very own to love.
Those words evoke such strong memories for me, too. I can almost smell my mother's house when I hear them.
I never got a Bagpuss. Maybe one day...
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