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MAGIC ROUNDABOUT

by roovacrag 

Posted: 01 October 2004
Word Count: 107
Summary: If anyone can add to the old childrens programs let me know.


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Where is the magic roundabout?
Basil and Parsley too,
is Zebbidee jumping round
on the spring he did do.

Rag,Tag and Bobtail
prancing in the sun,
wooden tops are trotting,
chasing kids in the run.

Poor old Muffin
Muffin the mule.
dancing on strings
acting the fool.

Bill and ben, flower pot men,
chatting little weed near the shed,
"flubber lub",said Bill,
"oooooooo", little weed said.

Where is crackerjack?
did he get the sack?
too many cabbages
not enough prizes said.

Where is watch with mother?
perhaps kids grew to some other,
nothing sacred anymore,
tales all told,same old bore.

Bring back the magic
of the roundabout.






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joanie at 13:01 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Alice, is it old age or do the new ones not seem the same as the old? Yes, bring back the Magic!

Andy Pandy, The Woodentops, Sooty and Sweep, Larry the Lamb..... I shall probably think of more throughout the day. You've got me thinking now!

joanie



joanie at 13:12 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Another thought - did you do 'Movement to Music' in Junior School? It was on the radio at 11am, after playtime, I seem to remember.

joanie

roovacrag at 13:22 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Joan I listen to radio Sheffield and they was talking about was life better 50 years ago.

I do have a copy of watch with mother that the kids love.
Old version and some are Black and White.

New version of Bill and Ben are not the same.

Next poem will go back after hearing a lot of comments on radio. I must have looked a hussy when the first short skirts came in showing my knees.

xx Alice

poemsgalore at 18:37 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Twizzle, Fireball XL5, Four Feather Falls, Sooty, Basil Brush (mind you, he's still around today and they're bringing back Andy Pandy). Children today aren't really children, they're miniature grown ups and are too sophisticated for their own good. Thanks for the nostalgia Alice.

roovacrag at 19:00 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Poems..I got the old video of the kids programs.

My grandkids love them,because they have never seen them.
Forgot sooty,Basil brush was later.

xx Alice

tinyclanger at 19:22 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
'Scuse me, hate to butt in, but I think you're all forgetting something?????
Tsk, I'll set the Iron Chicken on you.

Nice one Alice, some good memories. I loved the plimsoles that Florence and co wore in MR.
You could add loads more verses - Fingerbobs, Deputy Dawg, Hector's House, Mary Mungo and Midge, Trumpton and Camberwick Green, Mr Ben....lor! did I really watch so much TV as a kid?!
x
tc

Don Gorgon at 20:03 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Alice, that's cool!

I loved Bod, and was it 'Playdays' or someting with Jemima, Humpty, Big Ted and Little Ted et al? That was fun too!

Basil Brush! Yeh man, love it!


Cheers Alice

Don




roovacrag at 21:58 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
TINY...sorry I forgot about them......should have known.

Like Micheal Bentine with his farce that was brilliant.

xx Alice

<Added>

How could I forget the clangers and the soup kitchen.

roovacrag at 22:01 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Don..yes I remember big ted,little ted and Basil brush.

Here is a house with windows 1 2 3 4.

great fun.

xx Alice

roovacrag at 22:07 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Woz.thanks for the later ones..ermintrude was the cow in magic roundabout. think I spelled it wrong.

Still liked the herbs.

xxxxxxxxxxxxx al

Don Gorgon at 22:16 on 01 October 2004  Report this post
Woz, nice one for the link! Off to check it out!

Don


The Walrus at 15:43 on 02 October 2004  Report this post
Hysterical Stan and very original.

Red
x

poemsgalore at 18:17 on 04 October 2004  Report this post
DON'T FORGET THE FLUMPS! Loved that flumpet (whatever they called it) and they always had vegetable soup for supper.

Tuppence at 16:04 on 06 February 2005  Report this post
brilliant
does everyone remember there was no green in magic roundabout?
ermintrude was my fave

Tuppence at 20:35 on 06 February 2005  Report this post
have written my own poem due 2 ur inspiration
thank u


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