So, on Saturday, after our interesting look around St Oswald's Church in Fulford, we enjoyed a short walk to the Millenium Bridge and over the River Ouse to Clementhorpe and into Rowntree Park to see their Scarecrow Trail. There were over 40 scarecrows, and this year the trail extended out to some of the surrounding streets where there were scarecrows in the gardens of some of the houses. We decided to just wander around the park rather than try and follow the full trail, since there wasn't a lot of time left.
Close to the start of the trail were these four scarecrows of characters from the Magic Roundabout TV series. The Magic Roundabout is an English-language children's television programme that ran from 1965 to 1977. It used the footage of the French stop motion animation show Le Manège enchanté, but with completely different scripts and characters.
So, here we have Brian the snail (top left), Zebedee a jack in a box (top right), Ermintrude the cow (bottom left) and Dougal the dog (bottom right).
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The Magic Roundabout brings back memories of student days in 1970, when I lived in a college residence and the evening meal was at 6pm. Many students congregated in the TV room just before then, when the Magic Roundabout was on TV. It developed quite a following!
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The Magic Roundabout brings back memories of student days in 1970, when I lived in a college residence and the evening meal was at 6pm. Many students congregated in the TV room just before then, when the Magic Roundabout was on TV. It developed quite a following!
Ian
Thank you Shanne - Magic Roundabout seems to have an almost cult like following!
Ian
Thank you Paul. There seems to be far more going on this year than normal - almost as if everyone is trying to make up for lost time.
Ian