tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post2307183802185333573..comments2024-03-10T00:00:31.355+00:00Comments on BRIAN SIBLEY : his blog: BACK FROM THE DEAD!Brian Sibleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-76474907709127085772014-09-05T09:01:27.685+01:002014-09-05T09:01:27.685+01:00Oh my heart goes out to you. You and I are of the ...Oh my heart goes out to you. You and I are of the same times, and my parents not only deemed it right to put the things of childhood aside, but re-homed them on my behalf when I wasn't looking. To this day I grieve for my pressed-metal rocking-horse, exchanged for a bicycle that I thereafter despised and refused to ride, and the beautiful toy farm with windmill and a painted duckpond as blue as a summer sky, which simply vanished when my back was turned. It was the way of things back then. Your Shreddies dinosaurs stirred memories of them tumbling marvellously out to splash in the milk awaiting them in my bowl. What simple pleasures we had back then. Thank you for this splendid stroll down memory lane.Clive Hicks-Jenkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00573698513351018726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-50140097083903785842012-12-01T00:07:26.135+00:002012-12-01T00:07:26.135+00:00I think the depictions of dinosaurs have been unde...I think the depictions of dinosaurs have been undergoing revisions ever since they were first discovered! In recent years the notion of FAST dinosaurs has replaced the concept of plodders and dull-coloured monsters have given way to gaudily tarted-up beasties. No Dinosaurs in <i>Alice</i>, but there is a Dodo (and, courtesy of Tenniel, a Darwinian monkey) in the Caucus Race!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-75255871601558833352012-11-30T16:17:18.564+00:002012-11-30T16:17:18.564+00:00I don't remember those exact Shreddies dinosau...I don't remember those exact Shreddies dinosaurs (before my time, I imagine), but I've always been quite amused that popular depictions of dinosaurs often used to show them as smooth creatures - the Shreddies box makes them look as if they're made of the same skin as a seal.<br /><br />Nowadays, they're shown to be as scaly as you like.<br /><br />I wonder when it changed?<br /><br />(To ramble on further, I seem to recall that the earliest pictures of dinosaurs tended to show them crawling on their bellies like alligators. (Isn't there a dinosaur illustration in Alice in Wonderland like this, or did I dream that?) Only later did anatomists or artists realise that they just might be able to support their own body weight.)Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04216810702125906530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-27835009570994148252012-11-29T22:44:24.280+00:002012-11-29T22:44:24.280+00:00Missed out on the Thunderbirds... :(
I DID give a...Missed out on the Thunderbirds... :(<br /><br />I DID give an interview to 'SciFi NOW, but haven't seen the result, so less to do with modesty than ignorance!! Hope it's OK...Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-37298142825724443902012-11-29T14:35:56.236+00:002012-11-29T14:35:56.236+00:00I can't remember cereal dinosaurs, but I have ...I can't remember cereal dinosaurs, but I have vivid memories of cereal Thunderbirds! (And of how I was vaguely upset that they weren't consistently scaled.)<br /><br />Flying off at a wild tangent, has The Blog been too modest to draw the attention of Hobbit-loving Brian fans to the presence of an extremely interesting Hobbitty Brian interview in the current issue of "SciFi Now" magazine?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-65281078406328914712012-11-29T07:13:04.788+00:002012-11-29T07:13:04.788+00:00Thank you Boll, very kind of you. And yes, you are...Thank you Boll, very kind of you. And yes, you are right and Freud too..:)Arts and Craftshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06747217179477869995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-83469423893574671932012-11-28T20:04:02.891+00:002012-11-28T20:04:02.891+00:001972.... that long ago ! Scary !
Eudora, perhaps ...1972.... that long ago ! Scary !<br /><br />Eudora, perhaps I could offer my services. My rates are very reasonable :-)<br /><br />Here's a freebie though. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar<br />Boll Weavilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-49619285862922835382012-11-28T19:13:34.388+00:002012-11-28T19:13:34.388+00:00What a gem, Brian, thank you.
The adjoining pos...What a gem, Brian, thank you. <br /><br />The adjoining post there also links to the Blue Peter 1972 clip which shows the models missing the 2 o'clock ferry. <br /><br />Round here we play a game called "Made in Yorkshire" wherein Mr Raft scored double points for making me believe that Shakespeare came from Rippon. Now I will be able to even up that score by showing that dinosaurs were born in Yorkshire which, remarkably, is where they were constructed, then brought down on a lorry. <br /><br />I wonder Blackgang Chine knows of their connection to the Snark? There really ought to be one there. Given that Dodgson visited the Tennysons several times and knew Julia Margaret Cameron over at Dimbola Lodge, the sailing of the Solent and the island's geology is very likely to have furnished materials to his imagination. <br /><br />I'm determined to go back for a visit, probably in September.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-11982185541407012032012-11-28T14:47:23.066+00:002012-11-28T14:47:23.066+00:00Oh, my dear Brian, my armies are not in eBayland, ...Oh, my dear Brian, my armies are not in eBayland, I am afraid that the armies ended up in the trash... don't ask me why, we let that question to the therapist...;(<br /><br />Now, seriously; I love this thought of the writer Jose Saramago: "We always walk hand in hand with the child we were". <br />Of course for me toys are very good memories... like this:<br /><br />http://www.bluebon.net/victreas/exincastles.html<br /><br />Arts and Craftshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06747217179477869995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-90109157066572552912012-11-28T11:06:00.620+00:002012-11-28T11:06:00.620+00:00W-on-a-R – Fascinated to read about Blackgang Chin...<b>W-on-a-R</b> – Fascinated to read about <a href="http://www.blackgangchine.com/about-us" rel="nofollow">Blackgang Chine</a>; I've never been to the IoW, but I know there is a 'story' that the Jurassic landscape contributed to the inspiration of Lewis Carroll's island in <i>The Hunting of the Snark</i> with it's daunting prospect of "chasms and crags". Here's some great pictures of the <a href="http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=blackgang" rel="nofollow">Blackgang Chine Dinosaurs</a>.<br /><br /><b>Boll</b> – You are right! 1972, apparently; and here's a YouTube slide-show of photos from the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOS6OrEMSWc" rel="nofollow"><i>Blue Peter Annual</i></a>.<br /><br /><b>Eudora</b> – Therapist? I guess so, but I'm not sure there's anything too 'wrong' (or, perhaps, that unusual) about an attachment to early memories of fun and happiness. I bet your armies are camped out somewhere in eBayland!Brian Sibleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395103557170474777noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-88947724849278514562012-11-28T08:12:01.048+00:002012-11-28T08:12:01.048+00:00I miss my old toys, perhaps because I had few. My ...I miss my old toys, perhaps because I had few. My favorite toys were always the cheapest, a big collection of plastic armies... yes, I know, but I never liked very much dolls, I only remember one, a little one, and a little monkey and I preferred the monkey.<br />I dont't know where are the plastic armies, the doll and the monkey... good material for a therapist..;)Arts and Craftshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06747217179477869995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-7966499851652624872012-11-27T19:13:56.801+00:002012-11-27T19:13:56.801+00:00I remember watching those dinosaurs being winched ...I remember watching those dinosaurs being winched into place (around 1974 I think) on Blue Peter.Ive visited them many times since then :-)<br />I thought I was alone in trawling Ebay to get my childhood toys back again but you just have to ! Boll Weavilnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28039080.post-47099920026401498742012-11-27T13:49:56.575+00:002012-11-27T13:49:56.575+00:00You've just reminded me of Blackgang Chine on ...You've just reminded me of Blackgang Chine on the Isle of Wight and how the erosion has carried away parts of the dinosaur world which used to be on the cliffs. <br /><br />I notice from the website that some of the old - or maybe replacement - dinosaurs are still there. It wouldn't be Blackgang without them; it is the jurassic coast, after all.<br /><br />The amusement park is celebrating its 170th birthday next year. The term dinosaur was coigned in 1842, just the year before the site began to be a tourist attraction. <br /><br />There is an 1831 engraving, though, which shows all the cliffs which aren't there now and even then it was being visited by day trippers - this was why George Brannon made the picture to sell to the tourists. Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.com