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- Annie
- My haphazard, erratically updated blog about printmaking. Recent posts are for the Critical Debates module on MA Printmaking at Middlesex University
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I had a little weep.
He's in KidsTV Valhalla, with Eric Thompson and Michael Hordern.
I'm sure he was a lovely man, but I retain my childhood phobia of stop-motion animation.
I did feel a bit sad when I saw the news. At least he lived to a ripe old age.
That's a nice thought, Tim.
Ivor the Engine was my favourite.
This, along with the news that Tony Hart can't paint any more after suffering a stroke, leaves me with the knowledge that Floella Benjamin and Brian Cant are still alive to keep my childhood alive.
Sniff.
I'm with Boz.
"...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, and it was all there was.
And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..."
Sniff x 2.
Most upsetting death since Ivor Cutler. (not to be confused with the Engine)
Tim, aw, I know. Did you ever read his book?
B, oh no! 70s kids TV must have been a minefield!
Rad, right, and it was a life to be proud of.
Boz, I loved the little fire dragons that came on the engines. I know - Derek Griffiths is still alive and kicking too - he was my hero, he got in trouble on Playschool for drawing chest-hair on Hamble (the doll) with felt tip.
Del, did you know that by heart?
Billy - Ivor Cutler's gone?!
His book's fab, isn't it, Annie. Amazing family history. And I like the fact that he wasn't just this twinkly, grandfatherly figure, that he could be a cantankerous, opinionated sod as well. His Desert Island Discs was good for that too.
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