Happy Birthday Bagpuss

Of porridge, lost treasures, and a saggy old cloth cat

Bagpuss, dear Bagpuss

This week is the 50th anniversary of a much-loved BBC Children’s television series which aired in the UK in the mid-1970s. For those of you who are perhaps too young, or live outside of the UK and haven’t got the faintest clue who or what Bagpuss is, allow me to paint a sepia-toned picture:

From the annals of my own memory, Bagpuss i…