Charley Says And Tufty Fluffytail

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 Charley Says.  6 of these British Public Information films were made in 1973, they appear to have had a large cultural impact among the cousins.  

https://youtu.be/XSSIn55f6ow


Tufty Fluffytail was introduced in 1953 by the Royal Society For The Prevention Of Accidents.  Anyone who has ever driven in squirrel country knows that these rodents are the least safety conscious of all sentient protoplasm on planet Earth, and everytime I pass one of their flattened bodies I feel terrible.  
 
 
Alongside the narrators and Tufty, these stories also had a whole host of other fluffy creatures: Minnie Mole, ‘Naughty’ Willy Weasel, Harry Hare, Mrs Fluffytail (Tufty’s mum) and Bobby Brown Rabbit (nothing to do with the music star of almost the same name) and Policeman Badger were always on hand to spread their protective message.
 

 



 

Season 2 Episode 7 of the über weird Life On Mars.  DCI Gene Hunt finds himself on trial for murder and soon all of CID are after him. But DI Sam Tyler believes otherwise. He goes to find his innocence. Even if that means making Gene dress as a road safety squirrel.  2007.


Red squirrels are losing out to Grey squirrels in England:
  • Grey squirrels carry a disease, a Parapoxvirus, which does not appear to affect their health but often kills red squirrels.
  • Grey squirrels are more likely to eat green acorns, so will decimate the food source before they ripen and the reds can make use of them. 
  • When red squirrels are put under pressure they will not breed as often.
  • 'Decimate' is Latin for a military punishment meaning to execute one out of ten soldiers.  So c'mon, guys, learn to speak, er...English!

What the hell...is the war still going?


I love red squirrels.  Art by Petra Brown.


But these gray bastards...oh my.
 
 
 Cheerio!
 

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