CBeebies
We’ve only been on holiday for a week and already I’m becoming familiar with the closing stages of CBeebies each day. You’ve probably been forced to endure the painful experience known as the Night Garden. Today’s was particularly dire. Lots of jangling unnecessary music and the Tombleys and some of the others making a real racket.

What I know to be a good thing is the amount of repetition of segments on a daily basis. Children apparently like repetition and it helps them to learn so while it may be a little boring for me I have to accept that it’s good for Monty. What seems odd to me is that in such a short space of time I have learned all the characters’ names (more through osmosis than by desire). Monty and I both shout out the names of the characters when we see them whether it be the Ponty-Pines, MakkaPakka, OopsaDaisy, the HooHas or Iggle Piggle.

One thing that makes me laugh is that the whole programme is narrated by Derek Jacobi; once famous for his part in I, Claudius, one of the most controversial dramas of its day.

It seems that I’m destined to become familiar with this kind of programme. If you could take me back ten years and show me the kinds of programmes I would be watching I would never have believed it!

Anyway, enough from me - the time has come to say goodnight, tomorrow’s just a dream away tra la la

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