…probably like all cruises, gash awful but check out the tv programs !…loved the Clangers and Jackanory..
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it’s a Knockout with Eddie “up and under” Waring 
I remember contestants freezing at the seaside week after week.
The Virginian was good too, and in colour:slightly_smiling_face: Problem is I think it was shows like that and the John Wayne effect that has Americans all thinking the are gun slinging frontiersmen 
Rather that than Stuart pedo Hall.
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Was he? Bloody Hell, another one.
Still in gaol isn’t he? Or have they let him out?
My preference there would be Camberwick Green or The Clangers. Pugh, Pugh..etc, or was that Trumpton? 
My favourite is at 4.55 pm.
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He was released 10 years ago and only served two and half years, he’s now 95.
The Clangers was made by Oliver Postgate (of Smallfilms, who also made Noggin the Nog and the Adventures of Ivor the Engine).
Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley were produced by Gordon Murray and animated by Bob Bura and John Hardwick.
The fire brigade with the famous “Pugh, Pugh, Barney McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb” roll-call appeared in the Trumpton series.
Sadly the clip seems to have been taken down off YouTube. 
Today’s Trivia Fact: The original UK edition of The Clangers was narrated by Oliver Postgate himself - the US version by William Shatner!!
Of course! 
Ah, Deputy Dawg, great programme. Was it musk rat? The sheriff whose moustache went up and down when he talked?
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Muskie the Muskrat.
The Sheriff was an example of saving money on animation - no mouth movements required.
I wasn’t aware of the case, but wouldn’t that have meant he was st least 80 years old before proceedings against him ?
One shudders to think how much time he had to commit offences that went unreported.
I couldn’t understand a word that Eddie bloke ever said. Dad always turned it over when that was on, said it was stupid so we would get some news or political programme instead or a good police or western series.
I was a Wacky Races and Scooby-Doo kid.
Wacky Races yes, Scooby no. 
And of course RoadRunner and Wile E. Coyote.
And Tom & Jerry and the ants.
He was arrested in 2012 when he was 82, the offences he was convicted for date back to the 70’s.
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Speedy Gonzales?
As a woman who has been on cruises , I can tell you that some are indeed ‘gash awful’, but if you choose carefully they are fabulous. Choose interesting itineraries: the best cruise I ever went on started in Buenos Aires and went to Uruguay, The Falklands, around Cape Horn ( in a hurricane) the Chilean Ice fields( only possible to see from the sea) and finished in Chile, where we started our 4 week back packing holiday around South America. The worst was a TUI cruise, just at the end of COVID, which just went from one beach in the Caribbean to another.
A cruise hating friend of mine( he’d never been on one) was recently persuaded to go on a 5 day cruise of the Galapagos with another cruise loving friend and said it was the best holiday he’s ever had, small ship, good itinerary , excellent food.
So I’d say, if you’ve never tried one, choose the right itinerary, and you might just have your mind changed.
Yes we were given 2nd prize in a competition by friends who didn’t need it because they had won the first prize too. 
Theirs was a cruise around the Canaries and back, ours was fly out to Tenerife and cruise back on the return leg. Nothing remarkable but what made it great was being with good friends. Also, as we had flown from Luton and the cruise returned us to Tilbury they gave us a lift back to the car. We then said our goodbyes and drove off separately only to quite by chance both dive into the same services for a cup of coffee and a cake.
So 2nd prize was a cruise to Tilbury . I used to look after a new build estate on the opposite side of the river so watched the ships come and go.
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