The title of the BBC series brought back an odd sequence of memories - our own coal house in the back yard bore an image of Goofy. A strange place to put it - shortage of wartime artistic outlets, ...

Now put your books down…and get your gas masks out. Quietly. Now take them carefully out of their boxes - no, no, Isobel, don't drag at it…you show her how to do it, Margaret, will you.