Daily writing prompt
What TV shows did you watch as a kid?
Catweazle!
How funny this popped up today. I was saying only yesterday to grandson number 1 that grandad was looking a bit like Catweazle because he hadn't shaved for a few days.
In fact, Catweazle obviously impacted my childhood a lot because it comes up surprisingly regularly.
It's a gentle comedy set in archetypical, slow paced rural England that hardly exists now with a bumbling vicar and eccentric residents. Maybe it still thrives somewhere, I hope so.
Here's a little clip I nicked front the inter web. I wonder what Catweazle would have made of that? It's an episode called The Telling Bone. Even now 50 years later if I say I'm going to use the telling bone everyone knows what I mean.
Video
Another children's programme from many years later was Horrible Histories. I came across this when grandaughters 1 and 2 were young. They used to watch this avidly and if I was lucky I'd be there at too, pretending not to enjoy it.
What a fantastic way to learn our history. Little funny montages played out with lots of fun and music. I'd have loved history at school if it had been presented like this. I was enthralled by this programme and particularly this song about the English monarchy and which order they came in. It's been updated to add King Charles. Have a little look. Bet you can't stop your feet tapping.
Warning: You'll have an ear worm after watching it. Haha
All together now!!
William, William, Henry, Stephen , Henry, Richard, John. Oi!
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