Yesterday I spent my evenings lost in the wonderful world of The Clangers. An unusual sentence, I know. I've always had a soft spot for them, mum really loved them when she was little in fact many, many people did but recently I discovered that they were remaking it again (obviously for children) and I actually cried I was so overcome by cuteness! It's not a trait of mine that i'm most proud of, but i've always had it in me to react in such a way when I see something so adorable, innocent and sweet. And these charming characters are all of these things. Perhaps it's a subliminal, what with all the awful things that have been going on in the world recently, I find myself turning to softer, calmer, peaceful things to help detract from the evil goings on. There's actually an episode where the Clangers find a telescope and look through it to see Earth and zoom in closer to all the tall, grey skyscrapers and decide that they don't want to ever visit it as it doesn't look at all appealing to them. It just made me smile, continuously, through all the episodes I watched. (I then went and ordered them on DVD!) I probably won't admit it to anyone else, because it's not Big Brother or gogglebox or some other trendy, vacuous TV show that I'm suppose to love right now. But in truth, I will always find a joy watching these wonderful little moon mice and their sweet sounds, the old-school British narrator and their lovely little storylines finding things, greeting visitors and fixing things, and it's the sort of thing I'll adore watching with my children as they grow. I just know it!
It's a soft side to me, I'll never be able to throw away a much loved soft toy or say anything rude or nasty about any children's TV show with cheerful characters. I suppose I will always be a child at heart.
I dearly hope there's a little planet out there which such lovely creatures, where they live in peace and harmony, unlike this planet. Deep sigh. I wish I lived with them...
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