User:Dvdandfilmbloke

Tots TV abandoned house
I had a great childhood in the 1990s, being only 5 years old at that time my main TV schedule consisted of CITV and CBBC with helpings of Thomas the Tank Engine, Rosie and Jim, Fireman Sam, Brum, Noddy and The Riddlers to name a few. But my absolute favourite was Tots TV. I could work the video player like a pro for my age, having all the volumes of Tots TV as well as the other shows and watching, rewinding, watching and rewinding until the tape got eaten or had deteriorated to a non colour artefact laden mess. Tots TV was an odd little show which ran from 1993 to 1998 about these three puppet characters called Tilly, Tom and Tiny who live in a secret house in the woods, the show had the use of one character speaking French and was a production of Ragdoll, who made another nostalgic show Rosie and Jim and slightly after my time the Teletubbies.

I live in Stafford upon Avon, local to Ragdoll Productions and the old Ragdoll shop which is now an optician but still has a picture of Rosie and Jim looking out of the window and I also remembered seeing the chimney from the Tots TV house as filming was taking place but that still did not ruin the magic.

One night I was at the pub, having maybe a couple too many drinks. Well that couple of shots and bottles of whiskey were enough to justify me being forced to leave in the dead cold night with no car at hand. The only options I had for lights were street lamps and idiotic drivers, driving comically too fast. As I crossed the road, in a wasted and sluggish fashion as daft drivers were honking their horns, sticking up there middle fingers and shouting obscenities at me I just said “Oh Hello, don’t (Hick up) mind me I’m just (Hick up) fucking walking”.

As I walked, I walked up to a wood, by this point the alcohol was wearing out of my system and I noticed. I was lost. I was standing in a collection of stinging nettles with no dot leaves at hand so I was in unbearable pain. I could not see a bloody thing and by this point I just ran, hitting nettles and falling over a couple of times, I came to a dead end. The only other option I had was to stumble around for my phone; I found it and after shining the light I noticed something that looked like a cottage, it was massively over grown but among closer viewing I recognized what it was, The Tots TV house. Suddenly my heart sank and my childhood felt like it was being raped right in front of me but building up the stomach I entered the area; the door was a pain to get into since the key had rusted away and the door was locked shut and only after kicking the door in I found my feet in mud, water and other equally dirty shit probably giving me several disease’s.

The floor was gone and only left with wooden planks. I found a fire extinguisher on the floor, I decided to pick it up and I noticed the date it was last checked, “23 03 97” morbidly curiously I took the pin out, the foam came out but it was horribly dried out, me being the drunk git I was I decided to have a little bit of fun by pretending the extinguisher was my John Thomas ejaculating all over the room.

After 2 minutes of this I heard a massive creek coming from upstairs, almost like something was living up there. I dropped the extinguisher to my feet with a big thud as my heart stopped dead in its tracks. I was petrified but built up enough courage to walk up the steps, the steps were old and manky, (in fact I was surprised I did not fall through) and after that trauma I was up. As I tried to walk through the impractical upstairs I noticed sat on the floor were all 3 of the puppets, all the hair was falling out, they had no legs, the clothes were tattered and the faces, oh god the faces, it looked like a rat had been having its mid night snack on them, the fabric had partially gone revealing the horrible mesh and the eyes had the pupils popped and even on Tom an earth worm looking thing was coming out of his mouth. I felt like I was going to be sick (and this time the whiskey was not to blame), as soon as I turned my head to leave I heard in a low pitch distorted tone “Sac Magique, Sac Magique, Ssh, Tilly  it's a secret? It's time to go now, Viens, Come on”.