Posts Tagged ‘1970s’

I suspect I wasn’t the only thirty-something to ‘get a bit of grit in my eye’ upon hearing that Oliver Postgate — the creator and narrator of Bagpuss, The Clangers and Ivor the Engine, among others — had died at the age of 83.

The first defeat in the Commons for Nu Labour and Blair’s deranged post-vote interviews has given me the biggest smile of the day, but this came a close distant second: the Ridgid Tools ladies (‘75–’76).