When I left home yesterday morning there was a McDonald’s balloon wedged in the fence outside our house. It made me think that increased environmental awareness does have a downside. When I was a kid you could guarantee that at least one Blue Peter programme a month would involve launching thousands of balloons for kids across the country to try and find. There’d be a prize for the person who found a balloon furthest away from the launch site. Normally the winner would be some rich kid whose parents went on foreign holidays and could take a found balloon on the plane with them. I never got one of the balloons, but I always hoped I would, although the fact that I was the sort of child who didn’t really like going outside was probably a bit of a problem.
So could someone invent biodegradable balloons please.
Time passes…
Turns out they already have. And you can buy everything you need for a balloon race for a few hundred quid. So how come I’ve still never found one?
“at least one Blue Peter programme a month” Are you sure about that?!!
There’s a small chance that I may have been exaggerating for effect!
Ah, but with Blue Peter one tends to assume that the few things you remember from years of watching were routine. In my head I’m firmly convinced that Mark Curry knocked the head off dozens of lego men, that every Friday was ‘Tai Chi under the waterfall’ day and that presenters were regularly sacked for their fertility.