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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 1:41pm |
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I have this memory of watching a kids tv programme when I was really little... it was set in a sandpit I think and it was all these little wooden toys. Elephants and stuff. The one I remember, there was a bit flood, and the train was trying to get through and then the elephants sucked up all the water....
I swear it's a real programme and not some weird messed up dream! Anyone know what it's called?
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 1:50pm |
Pass! Are you *sure* it's a real programme?  
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 1:57pm |
Yeeeessss I'm suuuuuuuuure.
My sister remembers it too.
Unless it was some crazy thing my parents made and put on video in order to brainwash us. Unlikely though.
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 1:59pm |
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:01pm |
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:10pm |
haha liz......interesting childhood....
the only thing i can remember in a sandpit was sometimes playskool? you know those 2 grown ups and their dolls- jemima was the white girl with 2plaits and manu was the black boy with curly hair.......i dont remember anything about wooden toys....hehe wooden....
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:21pm |
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I was thinking button moon? am sure the little toys with that were wodden? but then maybe that doesn't quite go with your description..
What about roundabout - that one with zibbidy .. (that wasn't wooden toys though)
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:21pm |
 ginger that is so bad!!
haha mrshouse I knew you'd come on here laughing at me 
Not playschool, really different to that (no actual people I don't think??). Oh, and Manu was a girl. I'd remembered it as a boy too lol, turns out it was wearing a dress lol. I liked Humpty. I remember one episode where Humpty's cousin from the country came to visit, and they went in an elevator (cardboard boxes) and in a car (another cardboard box).
Weren't the 'snips' awesome. They always made that cool sound.
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:23pm |
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Just searched youtube for button moon, lol hilarious! Wasn't that though. I don't think these wooden toys in my memory were painted.
It was definately wooden toys and sand! And water and an elephant! And I think English accents!
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:26pm |
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LOL I always thought Manu was a boy too, maybe "it" was gender confused?
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:28pm |
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The Honest Un PC Parent of 2, usually stuck in the naughty corner! :P
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:32pm |
Here's the best proof I can find about Manu
Manu is my homegirl
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:34pm |
And their cellotape always sounded so cool as well. I used to pull cellotape off the dispenser at home just to try and make it make the same sound. I still love cellulose tape ... probably because of that! 
I had yellow snips which sounded kinda close.
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:52pm |
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Could have it had been Charlie Chalk, set on a sandy island where the only food was bananas, im pretty sure there was an elepahnat there too......?
eta. Not sure if they were wodden, i think it was more claymation??
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:53pm |
I always loved playschool paintings when they sprayed water on first, they were always so pretty and shiny 
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 2:56pm |
just looked charlie chalk up on you tube and they possibly could be wodden...
Charlie Chalk
I used to love that programme especialy his tiny likee house and fold out bed.
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 3:00pm |
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Nope not Charlie Chalk either. But that's cute!
It was definitely little wooden toys. Wood coloured.
I'm beginning to think I'm going mad.
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 3:14pm |
Pob!
OK, so the toys and the sandpit was only one part of the show... off to find the wooden toys part now lol...
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 3:21pm |
Yay you found it. I have never ever heard of it before, must have been before my time
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Posted: 07 August 2008 at 3:33pm |
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lol I'm only 23... maybe it was just one of those obsure tv programmes that was only on sometimes....
I think the sand thing must have just been one of the "stories" on it cos i can't find it anywhere!
ok small child destroying everything on desk, must go
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What is this 80s tv programme?
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