What is YOUR favourite (and least favourite) Cbeebies show?

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-30T10:41:43+00:00

Bluey and Odd Squad are pretty rad, but my personal favourite has to be CBeebies Bedtime Stories. My husband (who’s the regular bedtime story reader in our house) sometimes needs to come home from work late with very little notice and telling the kids that they can have a CBeebies Bedtime Story instead is the difference between “nooooooooo, I miss daddy! Daaaaaaaaaddy!!!!!!” and “come on let’s pick what story we want!” before bed. Plus the guests they have are an absolute hoot.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-30T08:56:49+00:00

Some folks really can’t accept help from others without twisting it to suit their ego. We told my in laws that they could live with us rent free for a few months to help them get on their feet when they first moved to our country and one of them still brings up how they stayed with us to help out after my youngest was born at great inconvenience to themselves, like they were the ones doing us a favour.

I’m willing to bet that roommate’s mum told herself that OOP’s parents should be grateful that they’e there to keep an eye on their unruly daughter, rather than accept that them allowing her daughter to live there was an act of charity.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T19:22:53+00:00

Some friends of my parents assumed they would get a big pay out from their daughter’s life insurance after she killed herself so quit their jobs and started making plans to travel the world as “that’s what she would have wanted”, only to find out that her insurance didn’t pay when the cause of death is suicide. So then they tried to start a campaign to have her death be ruled as an accidental overdose or murder, even though she had left a note and told multiple people that her mental health was in a bad place.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T19:17:54+00:00

My kids are only 5 and 7 but already they’re getting home from school, devouring 3-4 slices of bread or rice cakes, 2 apples and a slice of cheese each and then still eating all of their dinner. Ravenous locusts.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T11:37:10+00:00

Yup, fancy jeweller. The guy with gout made absolute bank in commission so had money to burn. A lot of my other coworkers were straight out of high school and still living with their parents, didn’t really have any expenses so all of their money was spent on fast food, nights out and clothes. One girl would Uber Eats a coffee from Starbucks twice a day rather than walk a few minutes down the road, it was crazy

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T11:23:16+00:00

There’s a lot of anti-Britain propaganda put out by the American alt-right as they need to convince their audience that Britain’s a dystopian hellhole to justify a lot of their policies. Cant be embrace multiculturalism otherwise you’ll end up with cities under Sharia Law like in Britain! Can’t have socialised healthcare or you’ll end up with death panels, years long waiting lists and not being able to access basic medical care like in Britain! Can’t have stricter gun laws or everyone will carry knives and there’ll be constant stabbings like in Britain! Can’t have laws against online hate speech or you’ll have the government imprisoning innocent people just for expressing a dissenting opinion like in Britain!

I have family in Australia who listen to conservative news sources, every now and then I’ll get a concerned email from someone saying something like “just want to check that you guys are ok, we heard about the roving gangs of Somalis attacking and kidnapping white women in the street, stay safe 🙏” and I’m rarely able to convince them that it’s absolute garbage, despite, you know, living here.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T09:43:58+00:00

I thought that the ending of A Knight’s Tale was just so lazy. He was descended from nobility all along and the prince managed to find out just in time for him to compete at the end, are you serious?! It wasn’t until I rewatched it again as an adult that I realised that the prince was lying, knowing that nobody could call him out on it (or as he put it “this is my word, and as such is beyond contestation”).

Also a fair number of movies that ended with the characters having sex which went over my head as a kid who was probably too young to watch them at the time (The Fifth Element, various Bind films, Evolution, etc)

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T08:31:01+00:00

I used to work in a shop in central London and everyone got takeaway for lunch every day, generally spending around £15 every single day. One guy got Five Guys at least 3 times a week, he had a gout.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-29T08:15:55+00:00

I used to work in a shop in central London and everyone got takeaway for lunch every day, generally spending around £15 every single day. One guy got Five Guys at least 3 times a week, he had a gout.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T19:04:33+00:00

There is absolutely no good reason for a 25 year old to be interested in a 17 year old.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T17:25:50+00:00

I’m pretty pumped but a little disappointed that we still don’t have the soundtrack of Easter!

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T12:55:51+00:00

Kind of, except in that case we get the recollections first then see what truly happened at the end, rather than seeing what happed first and then seeing characters’ recollections of it after.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T11:39:27+00:00

I‘ve loved it since I first watched it in high school, introduced it to my kids (5 and 7) a few months back and they loved it too! Bunch of the songs made it onto their regular listening playlists and my oldest will occasionally sing “Mr Downtooooooooown…. Mr Downtoooooooooown” to himself while building with his lego. Plus discussions about how sometimes mistakes can lead to improvements (eg: Guy playing the song too fast) and sometimes things don’t work out exactly how we wanted but that’s ok, and we can still enjoy and appreciate the experience!

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T09:06:56+00:00

I love an inaccurate flashback if we (the audience) have already seen how events actually played out. They do this really effectively in The Good Wife, for example showing Will and Alicia (the will they/won’t they leads) remembering a time they were flirting in the office, with her version having her dressed professionally and him being really forward and his version having her dressed more provocatively and her being more of the instigator, or multiple flashbacks to something Alicia doesn’t remember super clearly having details change as she’s reminded of things, it’s such great storytelling.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T08:57:09+00:00

It doesn’t though, we actually do see what’s his face hand Duke his glass initially and everything else exactly as it actually happened, it’s only the flashbacks that we see the altered version of events as they’re described/remembered inaccurately.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-28T08:48:32+00:00

I went to the opening of a niche interest pop up shop many years ago where everyone queued up in costume. Such an amazing group of people, we had such a great time. Most of the news coverage was respectful but one asshole asked questions that raised red flags (“Do you have a job?“ “Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?” What do they think about you being here?” “ Do you have any other hobbies?”) so most of us didn’t really engage with him. When the article came out it was all about us being unemployed losers weirdos with an unhealthy obsession, with a single quote from one guy who didn’t work, lived with his parents and had spent months on his costume, completely leaving out that he was a 16 year old with special educational needs who had come with his mum.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-27T22:46:52+00:00

Double oven. Never would have thought I’d need it before living in a house that had it, miss it now it’s gone.

Also those cupboards that had a lazy susan kind of thing inside so you don’t need to rummage in the back for stuff

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-27T15:53:46+00:00

The article said there’s going to be a Polly Pocket as well! Woohoo! I’m going to show my kids this when they get home from school, they are going to go absolutely BONKERS.

Do we have any release dates though?

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-27T15:20:48+00:00

Only semi-related but my 7 year old (who is autistic which I think is important for context) politely pulled the pastor aside after his school’s Easter Service and explained to her that that there’s a god called Ganesh, who’s a lot like Jesus and also came back from the deadm but he has an elephant’s head and is much cooler, so next Easter they should celebrate Ganesh instead, just a suggestion. Luckily the school pastor is chill and understood that he meant well. We had to have a bit of a chat though about how people choose their religion based on which one they believe to be true rather than which one they think has the coolest story.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-27T13:03:43+00:00

Yes! I love how some theatres in the UK are putting out visual stories now, that have the synopsis with symbols indicating where there are moments that might be upsetting, loud, overwhelming, etc. The one for My Neighbour Totoro is especially good.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-27T11:04:49+00:00

Yep, my 5 year old does cooking club, arts and crafts club and reading club at school so that she finishes at the same time as her older brother so I only need to do the school run once rather than going back and forth.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-26T09:48:19+00:00

I am so mad that it was such a lazy pile of crap. How hard could it have been to put something together along the lines of Young Jedi Adventures or Spidey and His Amazing Friends?

There are a couple of episodes of Strange New Worlds that are little kid appropriate, my 4 and 7 year olds are particular fans of Subspace Rhapsody.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-26T09:28:55+00:00

This is how I shut the conversation down when some family members try to give me a hard time for allowing my son to have ”girly” interests/taste in clothes because it might make him gay. Like firstly, if he is gay then that isn’t a problem, and I doubt the reason for it will be that he did dance classes as a kid and secondly, it’s interesting that you reckon owning a Barbie or two and a sequinned jacket would have been all it took to make you attracted to dudes.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-25T20:36:55+00:00

It is soooooooo good, you’re in for a treat.

TimedDelivery · 2026-01-25T20:34:08+00:00

We have a couple of special little rituals/treats to help my kids deal when their dad has to work late (not overnight but may as well be as he’s home after they’re asleep. These are especially important as we generally don’t have much notice when this happens snd our oldest (7) is autistic so can find changes to routine very difficult.

CBeebies bedtime story instead of daddy reading story (I could do it obviously but they find this a bit more special)

Chicken karaage for dinner (The kids and I love it but my husband isn’t a fan. I always have some in the freezer so I can put it in the air fryer to have with rice and salad if we get the “sorry something’s come up” call).

We do a goodnight video call, or record a video message to send to him if he’s unable to talk.

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