And that was the year that was...

Ok, first apologies as I know I've been a bit slack with keeping this fresh n up to date lately.

So before we board the Titanic in search of an iceberg and look forward to the overly rigourous frisking on Ellis Island prior to touching doen in Manhattan thought we have one last post from Paris Garden.

Very sadly a couple of weeks ago Oliver Postgate snuffed it...most of you are probably way to young to remember the clangers...from a bygone, non-reality era when TV mattered! As a lad born and raised on this I've included a clip so you can all see what you were missing...the clangers themselves, the music trees (genius!) and the soup dragon which doesn't feature in this clip but had his name ripped off by a wannbe band! Fashionistas as you watch this take note - the all in one knitted look is set for a comeback...mark my words:

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=HArUmqqiL0s

On to more interesting stuff...three of a kind....

My favourite Guinness commercial of all time is the dominoes ad - pure genius...there's a line in there somewhere (hoovers out there - NO! not that kind of line!). Well MuMu shared a great viral rip off for Pot Noodle ...which given the limited bandwidth of my imagination is currently my favourite viral of all time. And then just when I thought I was dominoed out I came across another variation on the theme....in the last one what really worries me is the amount of stockpiling of soap, washing powder etc etc that this geezer has done...not sure about restless legs...i think the bigger problem might be bunker mentality setting in!

Anyway - enjoy all three. From next year...in an Alistair Cook kind of way my letters will be coming from America!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=IYL5ws18VZ8
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ETL8YbX5upg
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-CqV3oBi8