If you hear the alarm, switch off all gas, douse fires, close all windows and draw the curtains...

One of THOSE days with Vi - all round tetchiness, several messy changes, temper tantrums at both mealtimes (she's decided she likes flinging things behind her... especially spoons loaded with dark gloop. Take said wall/carpet staining equipment from her and you are hit with a cry of wild outrage) and an old school bedtime spew as some sort of late Halloween tribute. Typical then that this has been the day that Hubs has spent in London, not to return until midnight. *Sigh*

Wanted to get some footage of that Fireworks Night Public Information Film from childhood where that girl grabs the sparkler off the ground and then she hasn't got any fingers for a Bonfire Night icon, but I couldn't find it. Did find some other Public Info Films from the 70s/80s though, including the utterly terrifying 'Protect And Survive' ones about what to do in the case of a Nuclear attack ('If you are outside when the attack happens, brush any fallout dust off yourself, change your clothes if possible and seek refuge in the nearest building') They didn't cap well, but here's some others I did... all of them grainy and terrifying... well, maybe not Dave "Ee's a trai'or wi'the rebel alliance" Prowse and his little robot mate, but Rolf Harris' foot telling us to teach our children to swim? *Shudder*

( Charley Says... )