Showing posts with label review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label review. Show all posts

Friday, 30 November 2012

In the night garden? More like in the drug fuelled night off.

My daughter loves 'In the night garden', its peaceful, calming and very colourful. But what the hell is it about. Seriously? I feel like i am on the biggest drug fest ever. Its odd. Its like someone gave you a ruffie and your seeing the world through the eyes of the writer on a mad trip. I often wonder what the characters are doing? As they all seem mental.
Iggle piggle and upsy daisy are cute, very annoying, and not really teaching kids anything as iggle piggles a mute, and upsy daisy says her name over and over again with the addition of "do" sometimes. But when you start getting down to makka pakka it starts getting strange. Personally this character is slightly racist in my view, as the rhyme says "wakka pakka" and sometimes you'll hear it from the character itself. Which isn't a good when your tryibg to bring your kids up properly. (oh dear the next door neighbours are fighting again)

Its such an odd program with so many continuity problems it would cause world war 3, in a media class. For a starters, the sizing of the ninky nonk, one minute its large, the next its tiny. The characters chase it and its tiny, then you next see then getting into the ninky nonk to find its suddenly twice as big as the characters. Where is the flow in continuity there. Whats it teachin our children that size isn't overly important when it comes to things. You have somehow explain the difference once your child is older.

I would love to know what this program is about. It makes no sense. Kids love it, adults loathe it. But it works. It works so well. My daughter loves it, and makes it perfect bedtime routine at the end of it. But if i am completely honest I LOATHE IT!

Wednesday, 28 November 2012

Coca cola lorry visits

Well todays been interesting. We've been to stoke-on-trent, to see the coca cola artic lorry. Last year i really wanted to see it. But i was so sick when i was pregnant i never got to see it.

This year i have seen it! I have to admit its not as spectacular as the advert, but then again the advert is, well, amazing. Really makes you think that christmas IS coming when you see the twinkling lights and that "holidays a coming" vocal. It hums through the ears like a beautiful bell, sounding the chime of christmas. Its almost like the smell of turkey, roasties and brussell sprouts are in the air. The crunch of wrapping paper and the taste of selotape as you grasp it with your teeth to quickly wrap that present before they see it. The coca cola advert is the symbol of the season to be. Since when have we ever relied on this for the month and a half warning that christmas is upon us.

That lorry, that must have cost an absolute fortune is something we flood to see. Its getting almost as famous as santa. Yet if you look into it, its coca colas fault that santa wears red. Traditional santa, before the commercialized, and well known santa we all now, always wore green. Not many people know that. But coca cola changed him from green to red to suit their advertising campaigns and hence many moons ago our beloved symbol of a childhood christmas was born. Yet we all follow the branding we are given as a child, so changing suit probably would cause uproar amongst children. If your childs young like mine, they are terrified of "the big red lobster man" (nightmare before christmas), and scream at the sure start of seeing him. I have to admit i found it a little funny. If you say "where's santa?" she frantically looks round, with a look of fear in her eyes. I know she'll grow out of it. I do, but its kind of funny to see her look for him.

Back to the subject at hand. The staff their where brilliant and friendly. And the lorry sparkly and shiny. Its a definate must see before christmas. A little disappointing in day light, and not enough lights on the lorry but a free mini can (now doing coke zero) makes it all worth while.

The holidays a coming!

Santas on his way!

There ought to be a new slogan "Merry cokemas" haha