Hands Up if you loved John Craven's Newsround. The first guy ever to read the news on BBCTV wearing a sweater! I was always so impressed by the careful way in which they reported the difficult bits of the news in a way which was appropriate for their young audience, The Falklands Crisis, the Challenger Disaster [the news actually broke on British TV on Newsround, as it had happened just minutes before the show aired] But always delivered by John and subsequent presenters [like Julie Etchingham, who came originally from Kirby Muxloe]
Here is my Newsround reporting of the last week or so
SUNDAY The Christmas Pie came out of the freezer and provided us with three good meals. A proper pie, shortcrust base and puff pastry top - filled with chicken, pigs in blankets, brussels sprouts, carrots, roast potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberries. It was a splendid use of leftovers
MONDAY A fabulous rainbow appeared over the close, just as we were going out to the car.
TUESDAY The sunlight through the new front door in the morning made beautiful sparkly patterns, some rainbow-edged, on our family photo wall
Mum's picture is fading to a strange sepia colour.
WEDNESDAY I did cook Bob a Chinese meal - from scratch - sweet&sour chicken, beef chow mein, eggfried rice -
THURSDAY All the seeds got sorted and labelled and into a box, with an index card for each month and a tick chart on the front. So I shall know what to plant and when and where. The chicken brick is not becoming a herb garden - Liz has requested it for her kitchen, Which is fine by me.
SATURDAY Went to the licensing of the new vicar who is coming to the church up the road from our chapel. It was in an incredibly cold church, you could see the Bishop's breath when she spoke. The Bible passage was Mark 4 [Storm on the Lake] When the reader got to
verse 38 "Teacher, don't you care that we are perishing?" Bob nudged me and whispered "Is that the text for the sermon?" They did serve a splendid tea afterwards though, in the cosy little village hall!
There have been other happenings too - but these have been a few of the highlights, I hope next week is as good, and I hope you are enjoying your days too...
Don't know anything about John Craven's Newsround, but, thoroughly enjoyed reading yours! It does sound like a good week. My week was OK, but, I'm struggling a little bit. To paraphrase William Wordsworth, "The world is too much with me".
ReplyDeleteOh Bless, the news from your part of the world is so hard to hear right now. Hang in there my friend ♥️😊
DeleteI enjoyed your reporting. John Craven was great. The Chinese looks delicious! The church sounds so cold. I'm grateful that my church is warm. I wrapped up warm with layers but it was warm anyway. I hope the new vicar enjoys her new parish!
ReplyDeleteThe Bishop is a she. The vicar is a he (mind you, the majority of the Revs there were female. It seems like that generally in the CofE now)
DeleteWhen my "boys" were boys we always watched Newsround it was brilliant. I still enjoy John Craven's pieces in Countryfile, his voice sounds so reassuring. You have had a varied and busy week. Regards Sue H
ReplyDeleteHe has a beautiful voice for broadcasting!
DeleteA busy week!
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DeleteI love that Liz took the chicken brick and thus a family heirloom was born. Glad your pie was tasty-we spent last week using up random bits from the freezer before our order from the butcher was delivered. Catriona
ReplyDeleteIt's only a family heirloom if she keeps it. If she decides it's not going to stay as part of her kitchen kit, who knows?! It may yet end up a herb garden
DeleteSounds a really good week ☺️
ReplyDeleteIt was- but exhausting!
DeleteI used to love watching Newsround as a youngster and then again when my boys watched it. John Craven made the news seem so much more relatable and explained things in such a way that all ages could appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteYou are right - his script was always so carefully written to make it intelligble to all
DeleteThe church looks lovely but being cold inside is hard! I love Bob's see of humor about it.
ReplyDeleteWoke up this morning to below zero temperatures and light snow, so light that I can still see the lawn through it! JanF
A sense of humour is essential! I am glad we haven't had snow. ❄🌨⛄
DeleteWe loved watching Newsround, and it was always what jumper will he be wearing today. He's still pretty good on Countryfile too. Your Christmas pie sounds delicious. We are using up salad stuff tonight, along with some corned beef and Jacket Spuds. The rest of the corned beef will be hashed tomorrow night. Xx
ReplyDelete👘👕🥼👘🧥. I haven't had corned beef for ages - lovely with Jacket Spuds
DeleteNewsround was very good. I remember watching it when I was younger (MUCH younger!!) and I read an article about how JC thought it was really important that young people knew what was going on in the world. And he never spoke down to them!! My nieces loved Sylvanian Families (or Transylvanian Families, as my brother named them) and had many, many forest creatures and accessories around their house. Love FD xx
ReplyDeleteSF [TF in your house] are excellent for role play activities.
DeleteI thought the Sylvanian rabbit looked familiar and then I checked and found that the Sylvanian families were renamed "Calico Critters" in North America. DGD had several with various accompaniments like an ice cream van. They are expensive but totally adorable.
ReplyDeleteThe ones Liz and Steph collected in the 1980s would cost an awful lot to buy now, I'm glad i hung on to them
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