Well, I have tried numerous times with new games on that desktop PC but none work :( The graphics card sucked on it :( We did get it as a package from Tesco about 5 years ago for £450, so I guess that it has lived it's life! TBH I don't have that much time to play games any more anyway :D
When I was little, TV was much better than it is now. The first programmes I remember were Playdays, Numbertime, Words and Pictures, (yes, my mum used to make me watch the educational programmes!), also Wacky Races, Yogi's Space Race, Smurfs, Snorks, Christopher Crocodile, Fireman Sam, Joshua Jones, Thunderbirds, Stingray... The list goes on. Man I miss being a kid. And yes, I do remember Barney the old english sheepdog, and its crude animation :P perhaps that's where Pokémon's animaters got their ideas...
I was more of a CBBC kid until Pokémon was on on CITV so I don't remember a lot of the early 1990s ITV shows. After that I watched it a little, now CITV, for the kids, is much better than CBBC, with Action Stations! in the morning and Toonattik at the weekend. I still watch Spongebob and Ben 10 before I go to work!
I remember the cartoon Dog Breath, but never read the books. I obviously read Harry Potter, up to the 4th book, until I got bored:D But the Magic Faraway Tree was one of my favorites and so was Captain Underpants! I even read some simplified Dickens when I was younger. I can't imagine doing that now though!
I still have the Winter Friends theme, I guess I should change it now.
What have you been up to lately anyway? Today, I have the day off school, as I am going to an open day at the UEA, which is where I want to go to study Environmental Earth Studies in the Autumn. It's about a 200 mile round trip and I'll be driving my trusty red polo lol. What do you do? Are you studying, at work etc.??? :D