Re: Have missed a thread?


"Jane Partridge" <jpartridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4WKTrYPOI8yKJwcV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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"Capt. Deltic" <eraf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 6 Oct, 09:54, D1053 <rob...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 6 Oct, 09:28, "Capt. Deltic" <e...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:





> With both grand daughters staying over for the first time on Friday
> night CBeebies took precedence over the Japan Grand prix practice and
> Breakfast television and I caught a programme called 'chuggington'.
> Ho, hum, not more anthropomorphised kettles' I thought, but there's
> modern traction and 'Hell's teeth that one'based a Class 55 in BR
> Blue livery'.

> There was also was looked like a first generation Shinkansen.

> And the super-hero-loco (don't ask) looked lke a class 91 with a
> feature that I'm surprised DfT Rail didn't add to the IEP
> specification. On each side hatches swing out at cantrail level to
> reveal jet engines, they look a bit like Rolls Royce Speys, which
> enable the loco to fly.

> Sadly the two girls didn't seem all that interested. But I've
> downloaded a drawing of the Class 55 which I hope to get the elder to
> colour in the original two tone green livery. With Finsbury Park
> white windscreen surround - of course.

Even better when you look at the web site (http://www.chuggington.com/).
The Deltic-based character is called Brewster
and the write up descibes him as a strong diesel-electric train. While
it would have been better to have called him a locomotive, I love the
idea of a web site aimed at four-year-old children introducing terms
like "diesel-electric". Education as it should be.

And not a mention of bionic duckweed anywhere.

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Thanks, Rob.
And a counter to the tendency of young mums to go whoo whoo and make
piston rod movements with their arms when their young children for a
'train' - for example at toddler activities.

Last week, as a Class 365 came into my station, a mother said to her
toddler 'Look dear, a train and went into the 'whoo whoo piston rod
dance'.
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Perhaps she was actually illustrating the internal combustion engine?

MaxB

It's a long time since my two were at playgroup, but I think it is to do with one of the action songs that the kids are taught at that age - so in effect the mother is showing the child what the noise and action of the song is really referring to... but, it isn't only young mothers who do it - the really embarrassing are the 40-something grandmothers who insist on making said noise every time the train (usually on preserved lines, doesn't matter if it is steam or diesel hauled!) goes under a bridge, yet alone a tunnel!

--
Jane Partridge


'Scuse me Jane, but my wife and I, married at 40, with a son who loved Thomas. Now at 14, he is a PITA full blown Hi-Function Autistic Aspergian; but not chasing trains, just computer games, silkworms and TV. We have had to smile off those well-meaning folks who insisted on saying knowingly: "Ah, you've got the grandkids for the day!" My wife would reply dryly: "No, we grew our own!!" Anyway, when he was a toddler, he had his own take on vocabulary, as many of that age do: among my favourites were: "Bar-ka-boo" for BBQ, "Toddle" for Thomas, "Cuggle" for a cuddle rug and "Ding, Ding Train" for Perth's suburban electrics - on the basis that the most prominent sound associated with them was the level crossing audible warnings, which in our case are bells at the top of the crossing signal and boomgate posts.

Cheers

DW downunder


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