FIRST SUNFLOWER

Very cheering.

Isn’t it Anget.....

The bees were loving it.

Great for wild life it looks huge it reminds me of Bill and Ben with litlle weed in between them it akways looked like a sun flower to me.

I remember them too 3d. In black and white on a large wooden box with a small screen to the t.v. we went into a families home to see that. Muffin the mule and the flowerpot men

Don't forget The Woodentops, and Larry the Lamb, and Rag, Tag and Bobtail! That dates us.....

I remember them well Anget. We didn't have a t.v. till I was nine and it was when the first itv came on. We used to go and visit grandma to see her "modern black and white" set. We saw the Coronation on it with all the family sat round.

Added to my faves, Linda. Beautiful cheerful picture! My one surviving sunflower hasn’t quite opened up yet!!!

Funny Lindak I still call the tv the box my mum prior to me starting nursery always turn on Watch with Mother for me strange as it seems I can recall when it finished each morning there were no more channels on until later on in the day .

I think we had our first tv. in the sixties. I watched a programme recently on children's tv. and they had all the old B & W's. on. They looked amazingly stilted and wooden compared with now. How easily pleased we must have been!!

https://youtu.be/cW0yPnGXFDU
Rag Tag and Bobtail.

Dont forget Anget Andy Pandy Loopi loo and Teddy also Watch with mother picture book. We were the first to have a tv when they first came out I think mum needed it with 7 of us lol.

https://youtu.be/y3P49n5m8bw

I did enjoy Michael Bentine’s potty time!!!! Hickory House and loads of others. Such nostalgia!!

My mother just had a valve radio for a long time and we listened to Billy Cotton's band show, Archie Andrews, how the got away with using a ventriloquists dummy on radio I don't know..Workers playtime, Journey into space and the Archers.

Same here Linda..was it 'Family Favourites' for the armed Forces at lunchtime on Sunday's ,and Billy Cotton followed on afterwards ? I also remember Dick Barton,and Snowy early evening too,followed by'Sing something simple' I could be wrong with the times,and day,as it was a very long time ago !Lol..

I remember them too Bloomer. Although we didn't have much, we made our own amusement, We didn't have central heating or even a telephone either. If we wanted anything we had to save up our pocket money, that wasn't much either, to get it. Mum used to take jumpers apart and re knit them for us.

Ice on the inside of windows in the winter...

Yes Anget and we used to draw pictures in it. We had the old fashioned thick blankets then...for a good reason...to keep warm.

Hancocks Half Hour..... Round The Horn... The Goon Show......Pick of the Pops.......Radio Luxembourg.......Life with the Lyons......who remembers these?

Yes DD I remember, Harry Secombe, who was famed for his singing Spike Mlligan, who wrote some good poetry, Peter Sellers, a film star, and We certainly listened to Tony Hancock, and Round the Horn was that Kenneth Williams? We used to listen to a pirate radio. Caroline? Gosh you've certainly sparked the old brain cells DD.

Yes Lindak radio Caroline was very popular....Kenneth Williams was in Round the Horn...such memories....

Isn't amazing how blue the sky behind appears? just beautiful.

It's been muggy and overcast the last couple of days Lori.
We had a storm one night that lasted over 4 hours and it was in the distance, but most of the lightning was flashing blue light in the sky above the cloud and it wasn't making any noise. The only bright flashes seemed to be now and again and they discharged down to the ground and obviously we got the thunder with it. It was such a vivid storm.