Wallace and Gromit Sitting Room.

I'm looking forward to the new Wallace and Gromit film on Christmas day.

It’s lovely isn’t it. I love Wallace and Grommet, and Shaun the sheep. Can’t wait to see the new one on Christmas Day.

I like it too... but the big black and white (oh...too, too white) mugs annoy me a lot... and they are even worse for having the enormous and ugly W and G letters on them!

I can't look at anything else. They are totally totally WRONG.
Grrrr!

Why are they wrong?

Too too white, too clunky, too contrasty, too obvious.

It's such a lovely comforting scene somehow.

I suppose a cup and saucer would have looked better.

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I'm OK with mugs but they are just too white.
It looks (to me) as though someone has superimposed them.

I can't take my eyes off them

Won't be the same without Peter Sallis though

No it won’t.

Who is doing the voice for Wallace?

Calendargirl

No it won’t.

Who is doing the voice for Wallace?

Ben Whitehead is voicing Wallace.

It looks like my childhood in the 1950s, except ours wasn't quite as upmarket as that one! What a Health & Safety nightmare our Christmas home was - real candles on the tree, paper garlands hanging everywhere (with a coal fire burning merrily), half a dozen electrical things somehow running off the one & only socket in the room. It makes me laugh to think of what scaredy-cats we've become, frightened of every last trailing bit of tinsel in case the baby licks it.

I don't know if I've seen the W&G sitting room, but my favourite book for babies and toddlers is Peepo!, which is full of scenes from wartime. My mum was a small child in the war, so it is far from my own experience never mind that of my children, but there is something comforting about the illustrations - maybe because they are seen through they eyes of a baby in his cot, not the adults.

Calendargirl

I just love this Christmas scene that precedes the BBC News and probably other programmes as well.

An old fashioned sitting room ready for Christmas, with a good fire burning, paper chains hanging from the picture rails, comfy seating and lamps lit.

Makes me think of years gone by and nostalgic for it all, although our home didn’t look quite as cosy as that idyllic scene.

Oh yes, me too!

Freya5

Calendargirl

No it won’t.

Who is doing the voice for Wallace?

Ben Whitehead is voicing Wallace.

He's very good.

Is the new film on Christmas day, did someone say?
I've never yet watched a whole film, just snippets, but I'll be watching the christmas one.

The bits I've seen of the other ones really made me laugh.

I like W&G. Depending on the time, I might watch it on Christmas Day, or will catch it at some point over the holidays.

We have a 'no TV on before 8.00pm' rule on Christmas Day, and I assume that W&G will be on earlier, as it is suitable for children?

NotSpaghetti

I'm OK with mugs but they are just too white.
It looks (to me) as though someone has superimposed them.

I can't take my eyes off them

Now, lay back on that leather sofa and let Dr Oreo take away your fear of white tea mugs!🤪 Tell me the first time you saw one and how it affected you.

Tbh I hadn’t even noticed the colour of the mugs and have seen that W and G snippet a lot.Intriguing.

It’s on Christmas Day but don’t know what time, I think I’ll record it.
The Christmas Eve ghost story on BBC1 is a Mark Gattis adaptation of the short story by E Nesbitt called Man -sized In Marble, tho the title may be changed by Gatiss.It’s a good short story and all her spooky stories , or most of them at any rate, are worth reading, just perfect for these Winter nights.
If you have a Kindle then I noticed the other day you can buy the lot for 80p!

Thank you.

Doodledog

I don't know if I've seen the W&G sitting room, but my favourite book for babies and toddlers is Peepo!, which is full of scenes from wartime. My mum was a small child in the war, so it is far from my own experience never mind that of my children, but there is something comforting about the illustrations - maybe because they are seen through they eyes of a baby in his cot, not the adults.

Yes. I love that one, too. But my favourite is Lucy and Tom’s Christmas. I’ll dig it out in a bit. It’s in the Christmas books box which I couldn’t find last year but discovered recently.

I loved peepo, and the jolly postman 🙂

Oreo I know I easily get fixated on details! .

I have had some great electricians BTW...

The first electrician moved my new consumer box back about 8cms from the old one (which wasn't so tall) so you can't see it from downstairs and then kindly turned all my kitchen pendant light fittings round so the screw in the fittings were all facing in the same direction.

Then, (about two weeks ago) my electrician lined up all the screw heads beautifully in my new switches and sockets upstairs. I was SO pleased. 🥰

😄