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Post by KiwiMonkey on Mar 13, 2009 16:17:18 GMT
I don't know if this has been posted here before. If it has I'm sure one of the mod's can delete it " James May is a man on a mission: he wants to get kids out of their bedrooms and away from their games consoles, he wants to drag parents off their backsides and get them all playing together again.
In James May's Toy Stories on BBC Two, he is going to take some of Britain's best-loved toys and put generations of families at the heart of some ludicrously ambitious adventures that will remind us all of the joys of making something together, with toys that have long captured the imagination.
Proving the best toys don't always need batteries, James's madcap toy adventures will see him using some of the best-loved toys of our generation, and reminding everyone that there's a big kid in all of us." There's also a small interview with James himself "For too long now we have regarded the great toys as mere playthings. It's time to use them to bring people together and achieve greatness. And I bet it'll be a right laugh as well." There is informaton about James's new programme here: www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2009/03_march/12/toy.shtml
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Post by maureen on Mar 13, 2009 16:49:52 GMT
Thank you for the great information and link, Amy. I really can't wait to see this when it comes out. *bounces*
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Post by ulstermayniac on Mar 13, 2009 17:07:53 GMT
Is there an airtime for it, or am I just being a prat and have missed it?
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Post by astolatmaid on Mar 13, 2009 17:11:49 GMT
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Post by TheDaisy on Mar 13, 2009 17:15:53 GMT
Is there an airtime for it, or am I just being a prat and have missed it? I don't think there is, not yet. Don't kow if it's even been made yet ;D
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Post by lindenchase on Mar 13, 2009 18:21:45 GMT
This is the Meccano/Lego programme. There is already another thread about it.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Mar 19, 2009 10:24:52 GMT
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Post by lindenchase on Mar 19, 2009 11:02:16 GMT
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Post by jacqui on Mar 19, 2009 13:51:05 GMT
Wow so much James to look forward to this year ;D
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Post by nobody on Mar 19, 2009 17:20:10 GMT
This comment (Whilst their offer was not necessarily the highest) shows that James is not just interested in the money.
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Post by tui on Apr 8, 2009 16:29:13 GMT
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Post by lindenchase on Apr 8, 2009 16:32:44 GMT
Somebody on Twitter just pointed this video out as well. ;D Unfortunately, it's UK only, so could somebody please download this and upload on sendspace? Edit: I did manage to see the first still and I can't help noticing he has been filmed once again in his own kitchen. ;D
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Post by tui on Apr 8, 2009 16:41:32 GMT
Somebody on Twitter just pointed this video out as well. ;D Unfortunately, it's UK only, so could somebody please download this and upload on sendspace? ok, never attempted this before, hope it works It's a FLV file, as couldn't convert it fingers crossed www.sendspace.com/file/ck4n35
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Post by nobody on Apr 8, 2009 16:50:07 GMT
I see he has a new jumper ;D I notice he had one of the old fashion dustbins in his kitchen don't you have wheeies bins in London
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Post by lindenchase on Apr 8, 2009 16:56:20 GMT
Thanks!!! It sort of worked. I could see the video, but it looked like poor James was suffering from Parkisons Disease, it was all very shakey. I'll see if I can convert it to an avi. What I don't get. Why is he cancelling Thundersprint on the 9th and 10th to show the Queen his graden, if it isn't ready until the 19th?
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Post by TheDaisy on Apr 8, 2009 17:06:30 GMT
I see he has a new jumper ;D I notice he had one of the old fashion dustbins in his kitchen don't you have wealey bins in London S'far as I know, London has wheelies, same as everywhere else. Not that I spend my time in London looking at people's bins, ya know
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 8, 2009 17:14:51 GMT
For anyone having difficulty seeing this, FLV files will play in the new version of Real Player without having to be converted.
What a fabulous little film! I have a very artistic friend, I will be sending this to her to see if she wants to have a go.
Thanks for sharing. And didn't his flowery effort look lovely?
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Post by TheDaisy on Apr 8, 2009 17:21:29 GMT
Id like to enter, but I'm afraid all my artistic stuff tends to be fanciful, long winded and complicated. I doubt there'd be time to make five or six thousand of any ideas I might have, in time for the show ;D
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 8, 2009 17:28:57 GMT
I have no talent for things like that whatsoever!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2009 17:31:28 GMT
I think that the viewing of the garden will be seen by the Queen first, that's maybe why he can't go to Thundersprint on the 9th/10th May. But the unveiling of the garden at the Chelsea Flower Show will be shown to the public, in person and television, I think I could be wrong Yes you are correct, the Thundersprint organiser said that in his e-mail. It is tradition that the Royal family look at the gardens before the the first day (Monday - charity gala preview) which is a celeb day and then RHS members go in and half way through the week the rest of the public can view the gardens. Every year the gardens are very innovative or very classic looking. This idea would have been submitted this time last year. James made a cala lily.
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Post by lindenchase on Apr 8, 2009 17:38:32 GMT
James made a cala lily. No, no! He made a Jacobus Mayas Fabricatus Imaginatus Absurdicum. ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2009 17:44:27 GMT
which looked like a cala lily. They have I think 2 or 3 weeks (I can't remember - brain fog) to build the garden and every day counts regardless of it being real or plasticine. and Thundersprint is smack bang in the middle of that time.
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Post by dutchdiva on Apr 8, 2009 18:12:28 GMT
Somebody on Twitter just pointed this video out as well. ;D Unfortunately, it's UK only, so could somebody please download this and upload on sendspace? ok, never attempted this before, hope it works It's a FLV file, as couldn't convert it fingers crossed www.sendspace.com/file/ck4n35Link not working anymore Never mind I was doing it wrong.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Apr 8, 2009 18:30:45 GMT
MG, now that you mention it, his flower did look like a lily, a mate of mine is a very good photographer and she photographs flowers all the time, some being lilies. Hers are all white though. We get lovely orange ones here in the Summer.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2009 18:34:03 GMT
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Post by lew on Apr 8, 2009 18:41:36 GMT
I love the stuff.....plasticine, play doh (sp?) was the stuff I hated ;D
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Post by TheDaisy on Apr 8, 2009 18:45:30 GMT
I love the stuff.....plasticine, play doh (sp?) was the stuff I hated ;D But you can eat Playdoh - goodness knows, I consumed enough of it as a kid. Maybe it explains a few things now ;D
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Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2009 18:48:16 GMT
Ewwwww Daisy I had the hairdressers playdoh, it's up in the attic and really old plasticine which was just rock hard and I swear it was ancient when I had it.
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Post by TheDaisy on Apr 8, 2009 18:50:20 GMT
It's nommy and salty (and thus very bad for you ;D)
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Post by jacqui on Apr 8, 2009 19:05:33 GMT
Sweeeeeeeeeeeet! Wish I was arty..... might get my mate to watch see if she has ideas, she's very very arty!!!!! *dam it* [EDIT] Artistic numpty......maybe..........but lovely with it
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