Reminiscing …
Thank’s to T’s latest blog post with its numerous links, I’ve just had a great time perusing the Play School web page. Of particular amusement was, alongside the page for the current presenters, the page of the current toys on the show. It was great to see many that I remembered from my much younger years, although it was rather sad that Hamble was gone (does anyone know when she retired?)
January 21st, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Can’t say I know Hamble as such. Very very deeply disturbed to discover that after all these years, wondering who Barry-Humphries-persona Sir Les Patterson reminded me of, it was Humpty!!! I am deeply scarred by this discovery, and will now retire to my corner to rock gently and whimper.
You doubt?
http://abc.net.au/children/play/faces/toys/5.htm
http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/barryhumphries/images/sir_les_patterson.jpg
(linked from the cultural attache’s own web site, no less!)
January 22nd, 2007 at 6:32 pm
It seems Hamble was retired in 1996 with a “faulty eye” …. *sigh*