Seeing Things

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Oliver Postgate. Seeing Things

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

DISCLAIMER

STROKING BEES

I. Going back

II. Wonders

III. Grandad

IV. The Green Bench

V. Another Place

VI. Bloomsbury-on-the-Marsh

A HOUSE, THREE SCHOOLS AND A WAR

I. Finchley

II. Time Out

III. Conventional Education

IV. Mocking Providence

V. When War Comes

VI. Progressive Education

VII. The Home Front

STIRRING IT UP

I. Growing Pains

II. Playing the Joker

III. Uncertainties

IV. Absurdities

RURAL PURSUITS

I. The Shires

II. Engines

III. Roy’s World

IV. Beatrice

THE HONEY-BARREL

TREADING THE BOARDS

I. The Academy

II. The Playhouse

III. Pantomime

IV. Thronging

RATTLING THE BARS

I. The White Knight

II. Silver Linings

III. Public Stomach

IV. Feasts

V. Friends

VI. Serious Events

VII. Hitting the Buffers

STARTING AGAIN

I. Stopping and Looking

II. Marriage

III. Small Time

V. Of Mice and Magnets

SMALLFILMS

I. Small Miracles

II. Mass Production

III. Moving On

IV. Sea Horses and Penguins

TAKING TIME

I. The Dogwatch

MAINSTREAM

I. Settling In

II. The Land of Nog

III. Houses

IV. Small Persons

V. Pogles’ Wood

VI. Red Lion Cottage

VII. Serious Considerations

VIII. Prue and Me

IX. Ray and Daisy

COLOURING IN

I. Outer Space

II. Realities

III. Afterwards

IV. Cotobro

V. A Grievous Gift

VI. The Cat

LOOKING OUTWARDS

I. Non-politics

II. Sun Worship

LOOKING INWARDS

I. Prue

II. Time Off

III. Procedures

THE WINDOW

I. Operations

II. Coming Home

III. Flights

IV. Agapé

AFRICA AND AFTER

I. Elephant

II. Other Places

III. Departures

IV. Rites

DECADE OF DEMENTIA

I. The Unthinkable

II. Into Gear

III. Indian Summer?

IV. Ends of Roads

CHANGING DIRECTION

I. The Cathedral

II. Triumphant Failure

III. Winding Down

IV. The End of the Operation

FURRY TAILPIECE

AFTERWORD

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Foreword

1. Stroking Bees

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When they went to Paris Ray and Daisy usually left John and me at home with the housekeeper or, quite often, they would send us with her to a left-wing holiday camp called Treetops. Once or twice we stayed with Grannie, Ray’s mother, sometimes with other relations. Only once did we spend a long time in a completely strange environment.

So, towards the end of March, we were sent to Woodstock School as boarders.

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