Tuesday, December 9, 2008

dear fat furry catpuss

Rest in peace, Mister Postgate, creator of Bagpuss. Your work will live on.

I cannot believe there were only thirteen episodes of Bagpuss made. Thirteen? Why don't we end up referring to it Friends-style, 'The one with the ship in bottle', 'The one with the ballet shoe'? I guess it was always more about the characters than the plot.

I had a look at the episode guide; smiling at the audacious imagination of the little mousey population of that curiosity shop:

Episode 12: Professor Yaffle has a basket which is full of odds and ends. The mice investigate it and find an old-fashioned broom which is made from twigs. The mice decide to make a flying machine out of the basket.

Episode 8: Emily brings back a box to the shop. The Mouseorgan mice open it up to discover that it is a Marvellous Mechanical Mouse Mill. The mice start the Mill and using breadcrumbs and butterbeans make chocolate biscuits.


Breadcrumbs and butterbeans... what else? :-)

And in other mice news,the computer mouse turns 40 today. Who would have thought...

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