Tom Watson and I are clearly in touch with the child zeitgeist

There's nothing like being a little bit prescient to make you feel smug in the morning. At the beginning of the month I posted about the CBeebies shows In the Night Garden, and it's worryingly trip induced characters, the Ninky Nonk, Iggpiggle and others. The reason for the post was for two reasons, firstly to say how my kid cannot say Ninky Nonk properly and comes out sounding like something else, and secondly to say it was the new Teletubbies and predict it would storm the shops this Christmas.

It turns out that I was not that prescient as Tom Watson beat me by two days, but we seem to both be in agreement about the shows mesmerising power, and its unique weirdness. Like Tom I have also received stupid amounts of hits because of mentioning it.

A week or so later, the Sun about it, and now the seriously pious Independent have too. I didn't actually realise Tom had written about it until just now when I searched on Google News and saw him mentioned in the Sun, but clearly as fathers we can both put his incorrect politics aside and bask in the knowledge that we're ahead of the game.

All hail Igglepiggle I say!