What sort of house doesn't weigh very much?
A lighthouse!!

Since it was a sunny day, I went for a ride along the coast to Portland Bill today, and it reminded me of one my favourite TV programmes from when I were a wee nipper! Here's a bit of childhood reminiscing for anyone that remembers.
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Sun 1 Apr 2012, 17:12, Reply)

I always loved the way they animated the water
So simple and so effective!

Oh come with me to the rolling sea, where the weathers calm and still...
( Hellzapoppin, Sun 1 Apr 2012, 17:36, Reply)

Yes!
I think that programme was probably one of the reasons why I have always been into boats and the sea!

If I ever get around to having kids, I think I will have to track down DVDs of programmes like this. I don't think kids TV is anywhere near as good as this any more (that said, I don't watch kids TV so I can't really comment!).
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Sun 1 Apr 2012, 17:41, Reply)

Horrible Histories is ace
but I haven't seen anything else that's much cop. And nothing that I think would induce proper nostalgia twenty years hence. Not like this, which still makes me well up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGSQffbzkx0
(Stephen Sondheim ..-. ..- -.- . -.- -.-- . .- ...., Sun 1 Apr 2012, 18:13, Reply)

Brilliant!
I think I still have all of this version of the wind in the willows on VHS. Sadly I don't have anything to play them on :(

I keep hearing good things about Horrible Histories. I probably ought to check it out some time!
( more balanced than jeremy beadle It wasn't me..., Sun 1 Apr 2012, 18:35, Reply)

yes
now they have to motion-capture Andy Serkis playing an H₂O molecule millions of times
( Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Sun 1 Apr 2012, 18:34, Reply)

oh come with me to the rolling sea, while the weather's calm and still....
that's brought back some memories, I used to love this.

I thought it was Cockleshell Bay at first, but that was something different, getting confused in my old age.
( spesh, Sun 1 Apr 2012, 17:46, Reply)

I used to have
a Portland Bill duvet when I was a kid. I loved it.

I was also immensely disappointed when on holiday as a nipper when my parents told me we were going to visit portland bill that day - and they took me to a bit of boring coastline and not to meet the bloke who lives in a lighthouse
( LP, Sun 1 Apr 2012, 19:50, Reply)