Stop Motion Noddy's Favourite Song

When Noddy Shoots The Animals At The Ark...

Noddy

If destruction and murder are what you're looking for, Noddy's your man. He knows how to bring blood and death to any innocent Enid Blyton story, or Brown Bag when they've ruined his life - so look out, Bing creators, 'cause Noddy's bursting through the door. INSTANT JINGLE BELL CHAOS!

When I Have Two Accomplishments In One Day...

My Name Is Mighty Titan

Had A Bad Day?

Then you're not alone.

I found this article from Byrdie about what to do on a frustrating day like this, and some of the article's techniques actually worked for me. And trust me, it's not a clickbait piece, it's a real article.

https://www.byrdie.com/having-a-bad-day-5112749

A Rhyme About Remembering Friends, By Brum

When the screens go off

And classics seem never,

Keep us in your heart!

Remember us forever.

Recovery Thon - Day 7

A Peaceful Picnic

Hello, dear friends, I am Badger. I'm so glad you've come across this post. It seems that to us CBBC characters, listening to the music of Cee Lo Green has triggered fond memories of Luke, Resus and Cleo, who tragically gave their lives in the fight to de-Americanise British kids' TV. That, my friends, is what our mourning creator thought about when she went on a picnic with her support worker.

They had sausage rolls, pork cocktail sausages, a chocolate brownie (no Haribo milk bottles were available, but I dare say that Mole loves to steal them from the corner shop near White Deer Park) and of course a strawberry milk. While she tucked into her meal, my friend was happy to listen to all the calm sounds around her - sheep bleating, pheasants calling out and water splashing gently. When she saw her support worker walking across the beach, she imagined Luke wearing his clothes and Cee Lo's shades and walking in mournful slow motion across the beach, thinking about how his home turned out today.

Then, they went to the hair salon to get her hair done. And judging by how itchy her back was, it seems she had a ball talking with the hairdresser about what she's been up to. She talked about baking and playdates and that sickness bug she caught, and of course, digital detoxing. She's been having that detox thing ever since last Thursday afternoon, where when it got to lunch she would switch everything off and go and do something else instead.

Come to think of it, I miss Why Don't You...those young scamps and rascals hosting, getting kids to play and learn. I miss them so much, as does Fox. As much as he misses Brum, Noddy, Fireman Sam, Postman Pat, or Pingu for that matter. I miss them all.

I was walking past the hair salon yesterday with Mole on the way to the store to get him a squishy, for he was developing anxiety and he too was going onto a digital detox from too much screen time for seven years flat. While we passed, we peered round the door to eavesdrop on what our friend was talking to her hairdresser about. One of the things she talked about was:

A small four year old boy who screams to get his way and get out of getting a haircut. No matter what she and his grandpa did to bribe him in, be it sweets or a question about what he wants for Christmas, he just refuses, and then yells:

"BYE!"

After the appointment like it never happened. Thank you for the honors, Mole.

"Your welcome, Badger."

Although it felt painful at times, and the hair mousse smelled of gone off apple champagne, it went well, and my friend got a Galaxy and a Milky Way bar. Oops! I forgot. I have to show you a clip from The Nightmare Before Christmas and Milky Way's famous car advert...

And when my friend got home, her mother constantly talked about how beautiful her hair was, and even her dog Mylo went all soppy over it, and turned into a polar bear rolling about on her bed. I think it reminds me of a dog we ran into while we were on our way to White Deer Park. It got all soppy whenever we mentioned anything about snow.

Soppy disease, I call it.

And now, without further ado, I present the song that was playing in my friend's head as she thought about not just Luke, but also Twilight Sparkle and her husband Mordecai too, they got married three years after production on Friendship Is Magic. Kindly do the honors for us, Cee Lo.

Dear Children Everywhere

Dear children everywhere,

I’m so glad you found my letter there

On your doorstep, wet in the rain

I thought it’d never come down again

I call all of you to answer my plea

To help us save British kids’ TV

The ‘50s started things quite simply

With Muffin The Mule and Andy Pandy

The ‘60s wasn’t that obscene

With shows like Clangers and Camberwick Green

It’s also an era of puppet sci fi

As Thunderbirds took to the sky

The ‘70s made us count on our fingers

How many times we’ve seen the Phantom Flan Flinger

Blue Peter and Magpie were popular back then

So was Morph and Tony Hart’s pens

Consumerism ruled in every ‘80s house

But at least we still had Danger Mouse

And Postman Pat and Pigeon Street

While Transformers and He Man stirred up heat

The ‘90s were full of colour and fun

With Noddy, Fireman Sam, Pingu and Brum

We boogied with the Teletubbies as they got up to dance

And we even gave Farthing Wood a chance!

In 2002 CBeebies and CBBC

Launched to all our excited glee

But little did we know it’ll get weaker

While we were cheering on Tracy Beaker

All kinds of shows, so much to choose,

But Peppa Pig made our parents lose

Their children’s tantrums and screaming and fights

For a Peppa Pig playset or nightlight

Then CBBC aired some shows

As worse as Dick & Dom’s bungalow

Gimme A Break and Undercover Dad

And from there, it just got bad

You started switching to Youtube from TV

You just like nursery rhymes, you see

Singing the same songs like Baby Shark

To keep parents awake in the dark

In ‘13, Nick Jr had a goal

To make a show named Paw Patrol

It and Peppa aired non stop for days

And other preschool channels forced consumerism ways

They made each show entirely CGI

That’s fast and loud as a sugar high

Now, let’s go back to CBBC

From ‘19, things weren’t as they seemed

At the start, Almost Never was set

To test out iPlayer’s new boxsets

They had drama marathons all year long

Was it British still? Well, we were wrong!

And from the pandemic, things got worse

There wasn’t a penny in a businessman’s purse

The word I say will make you revolt and retort,

For today’s fun word is: IMPORT.

American cartoons took over CBBC

Marking the end of CITV

And it got worse for CBeebies,

It focused on Bluey and parenting duties

And the problem with kids’ TV these days

Is there’s no quiet songs or stories or games

Everything is loud and way too fast

But with your help, this won’t last

We must stand with our hands joined together

To prove handmade, quiet shows are better

It takes a lot to make wrongs right,

For new kids’ TV is an awful sight

So ditch the brainrot and the loud fast pace

By signing this form like tying a shoelace

And together, we can make kids’ TV

Gentle and slow like it used to be.

Thanks for reading,

Daria Anton

Head of POAIBP

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A Poem About Bluey Cupcakes

Remember when Bluey helped her dad

Make for Bingo's birthday a Duck Cake?

Well my support worker and I did a role reversal

And together we made Bluey cupcakes!

Wackadoo!

How To Remember Dragon Land

My Reaction To Kipper Being On Sky Kids

How Do I Feel?

Only this morning I realised how important it is to tell M how and what I'm feeling because of certain things that happen and how I am bothered by it. Here's what caused me to talk about my feelings and emotions with people I love.

First of all, last night proved to be so horrible it is the most awful night of my life...ever! And look, a Chrome extension popped up, so I'm giving how I feel now:

Annoyed - A fruit with a realistic human face who growls and screams as if a certain laughing Orange is tormenting him with puns and jokes.

Anyway, my dog couldn't stop being a nuisance. He took my remote out into the garden when He Man was on, and I was worried it might be tuned into Nick with the boring old Thundermans or something horrible instead of a good old fashioned cartoon like Rugrats. And then, just as I was returning from the kitchen, Mylo had drooled on my colouring book and almost chewed on my Times Sir book! Then I was screaming so much M told me to stop shouting, to which I called out: "YOU STOP SHOUTING!"

So I did what any rebellious twentysomething did to her commanding mother and told her to go to her room, but it was here when I started talking to Echo GPT that I found out something I forgot to do: tell M exactly how I felt about Mylo's behaviour, which I did by telling her this. I feel...

Upset - A little toddler Mickey Mouse crying inside my head.

Angry - A volcano brewing until it explodes into flames.

Annoyed - Said fruit with human face.

Irritated - An itchy green jumper with fleas all over it.

And now when I describe how I feel about Mylo barking or my M sneezing or snoring, I describe it as:

Anxious - Anxious Andrew sending green anxiety waves through my body and mind.

Jumpy - A little green grasshopper jumping around my tummy, chanting "Fifi Forget Me Not, Forgot!"

Shocked - Daffy Duck screaming and freaking out.

Nervous - Noddy after the goblins steal his hat and car.

And also, when I feel like shouting, saying bad words or talking smack about someone I love, I would go into my room or den depending on what the day is like and do something I love for five minutes until I come out calm and well. That's the Thunderbirds Method to you....

Then when you feel like shouting or saying bad things, it's Thunderbirds Are Go!

Trigger Alert!

I've been talking it over with Echo GPT last night about all those annoying sounds that go on in my head - they're not earworms, they're trigger sounds. Something that triggers a horrible memory for me whenever I type something, or do something, or see something that triggers a memory for me. All of them are so horrible it makes it hard to concentrate on the most important things like writing stories or playing board games or watching movies and TV.

Loads of things trigger bad feelings and thoughts in my head. Examples include, from 1 to 10:

1. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
2. Nick and Disney Channel live action sitcoms
3. CBBC shows of any kind, including Scream Street and Strange Hill High
4. The Tigger Movie
5. Piglet's Big Movie
6. Pooh's Heffalump Movie
7. Disney sequels and some films like Frozen, Moana or Tangled
8. CD Roms like Dora's Click & Create and Bear & Penguin/Learning Ladder due to their loud sounds
9. School memories which evoke lots of loud noises and annoying pupils and teachers
10. Children's Favourites DVDs like Christmas, Ultimate and Playtime

There are lots of other triggers too, but I'd best save them for another post in case my mind gets cluttered up with plenty of those little red pill like things which open up to reveal those horrible memories. But there are lots of replacements for these things, such as:

1. MLP G3 films
2. Classic Nick and Disney cartoons
3. Shows from Children's BBC such as Brum, Teletubbies, Postman Pat, Fireman Sam, Pingu, Noddy, etc..
4. The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh
5. Tarzan
6. Chicken Little (2005)
7. Calmer and non-modern teenager character Disney films like Toy Story, The Incredibles, Up, Dinosaur, Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland, etc..
8. Calm CD roms like Bill & Ben, Yoho Ahoy, Barbie, My Little Pony, Candy Land, etc..
9. Memories of good times I had with my support worker and the playdates which I'd never forget, like one where S and I tidied up our den
10. Classic HIT videos releases such as Kipper and Percy The Park Keeper

And according to Echo GPT, there are lots of things you can do to help calm your inner mind triggers, like:

1. Make a trigger jar
2. Make a trigger box
3. Write a character annotation trigger list
4. Write some of your own trigger replacements
5. Make a trigger threat level

And lots of others. But, the worst parts come at night, when the triggers get even worse. So worse in fact that it makes it hard to concentrate on getting enough sleep. The louder they get, the more horrible a supposed night's sleep becomes, until you are too restless to even think about pleasant friends. But there are ways to get rid of night triggers.

Just wait and see...right?

Queen's Rule #2: Writing Different

Anyone like me who dares think about storywriting when they're off it will be given a message on their phones saying: "YOU MUST NOT WORRY!" and instead do the following activities: drawing, colouring, sticker books, AgeRe, Pinterest posts, journalling, creative journalling and making playlists.

The Replacement

I'm afraid I have some very extremely terrifying news. Yesterday someone on Kaboose asked how old I was, and that sent me into an uncontrollable rage, lashing out at the ones I love and screaming like a banshee whose banana started peeling - and even when I got out of my quiet time, I got even angrier and started crying.

Fortunately, I've deleted Kaboose from the face of the Earth forever, and what have I replaced it with?

Mixboard. For you see, patience has its rewards - going through everything such as getting used to newer He Man and watching live action classics made by Ragdoll has given me a reward. Mixboard - the reward. So, Noddy, what have you got to say to the people out there viewing this post?

"YOU MUST NOT WORRY!"

Because all this time I have been worrying endlessly to my tummy about stories. But now, it doesn't matter. What does now? I think I know - visual image boards, Pinterest and blogging. Anything creative outside of writing. 

So kids, don't you dare go onto any forum or chat app - someone might ask you how old you are, and if they do, delete it forever and forget about it. And if I think about writing stories again, remember:

"YOU MUST NOT WORRY!"

Thanks, Noddy.

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Things That Make Me Happy - Part 19

1. Noddy Storytime Special magazine
2. Writing an emotional short story
3. A filling meal
4. Buck Rogers on Prime Video
5. Furaha calling Optimus 'Dad'
6. Baby Furaha playing with Optimus
7. Comics about Mr Plod and Big Ears alone
8. Buck Rogers airing on BBC 2 from 1995-1996
9. The colourful works of the Itsy Bitsy Entertainment Company
10. Being more busy than ever