With the recent passing of the brilliant Bill Oddie (Bloddie), so many happy, positive, absurd memories of The Goodies come flooding back. Perfectly suited to my sense of humour.
In Australia, their show was repeated on TV every weekday early evening for 20+ years. Every Aussie child in the 70's and 80's watched and knew The Goodies devotedly.
My three children (now adults) still adore The Goodies! Oh YES!!!
I cannot name just one positive, hilarious, absurd moment.
"Bellamy!" 😄
OK, the personal story...
I would have been about 16, c. 1980, when the episode "Animals" aired. Everybody at school watched The Goodies. I mean everybody. This episode would air at about 6pm on a weeknight.
The next morning, on the bus to school, the call of "Bellamy!" echoed up and down the bus, for the entire 20 minutes!
It was unspoken, but everyone. on. that. bus. knew exactly what it meant. We'd all seen it. Popular kids, poor kids, dork kids etc. Everyone... Men. Dressed as rabbits, trying to hide from rogue animals... of course [laffs]
https://youtu.be/Tz524KEe-kg
(The episode parodies nature documentaries and presenters—including David Bellamy—while exploring themes of animal rights and the economy running on animal power.)
Twas a truly classic childhood memory. A community event. Brilliant.
I know nobody will read this, but sometimes when I'm bored and tired, I get myself wrapped up in my frilly pink satin tutu, and luminescent ballet tights and put a giant golden horn on my head, thickly lather day-glo sparkles all over myself, and slide around the soapy wet kitchen floor pretending I'm a magical unicorn, singing Italian Opera tastelessly in Biblical Greek.
😸🤭😺😀😃😄😁😆😂😜
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How the heck do you measure the length of an active goldfish? [laffs] Katia is now about 15 cm/5.9 inches in length, and Thoon is c. 13 cm/5.1 inches.
11 October 2023
I bought Thoon and Katia a new tank-cleaning vacuum, and it works like a charm! I just run the emptying hose out the front door, which empties onto the front lawn - no problem! Now cleaning/changing the water in their tank is much easier and simpler for lil' ol' me [yay!]. It even came with its own video, tho my machine is red [which, of course, we all know, just goes faster! lol].
Now their tank looks clear and pristine every day... sure, they don't appreciate the intrusion while the cleaning is taking place, but they do after it's all finished. They've never thanked me tho, either, ungrateful buggers [laffs].
I have to laugh... cleaning the tank mid-summer is better than mid-winter, as their water is BLOODY FREEZING! 🥶
I caught myself making an unconscious Spoonerism today - instead of 'Thoon and Katia', it came out as 'Thatia and Koon'... I made myself laugh.
24 April 2023
I gave their fish tank a jolly good cleaning out today, including rinsing out the gravel etc. Poor Katia was NOT happy when she got momentarily stuck in the vacuum hose nozzle (she's fine)... plus neither of them was happy being placed in a small bowl during the cleaning process... it took them a while after it was all done to look me straight in the eye again [laffs]. Sturdy buggers they are.
28 March 2023
I think I saved the life of one of my goldfish today. Katia got a small pebble stuck in her mouth; she (I should not assume the gender of my goldfish, huh? lol. As it is, I have no idea what either of them is!) would have starved to death, as she had been unable to remove it!
I grabbed my small net, and of course, being the feisty Alpha fish she is, she put up a fight while I tried to catch her and try to do something to help. Thankfully, in her moment, the small pebble popped out all OK! Phew! No harm done.
10 July 2023
I know it doesn't sound like much, but I enjoy my two goldfishies. I've been enjoying this pair's company now for 1 year 10 months [grins]. Their "Birthday" is 20 Sept 2021.
Thoon & Katia
28 March 2023
10 March 2023
Katia 10 March 2023
💥 If anyone has any practical tips on how to get a good fishie photo, pls let me know! 💥
Answer: get a bloody better camera [laffs]
My freshwater tank measures
600mm wide x 300mm deep x 400mm high
23.6 in x 11.8 in x 15.7 in
Tank Volume: 70 litres / 18.5 US Gallons
(Originally Posted: 23 Sept 2022)
I attempted to take a picture of one of my two goldfish, "Thoon", because he's a bit of an oddity: he is a normal Comet, but he has three tail fins!
"Thoon's 3rd fin is a superpower, and he doesn't know" - SB
It doesn't negatively affect him at all, thankfully.
(NB. It's not easy taking a photo of a goldfish with a little 'point'n'shoot' camera!)
I kinda like the irony that I have a unique common goldfish! Thanks, Thoon! 🐠
Here's the tank and Katia putting on a show, whilst Thoon is shyly poking his head out from behind a plant (lower centre)
Long answer: In a band many years ago, we used to invent words for sounds (for silly fun)... 'Thoon' was "the sound of a cricket ball bowled just past off-stump..." 🏏
