On September 1, 1939, two days before Britain declared war on Germany, the BBC\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s television station was unceremoniously taken off air at 12:10pm after the broadcast of the Mickey Mouse cartoon, Mickey’s Gala Premi\u00c3\u0192\u00c2\u00a8re. \n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Wikipedia: BBC One<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\nBBC television returned on June 7, 1946 at 3pm. Remarkably, programmes restarted with the same Mickey Mouse cartoon of 1939, introduced with the announcement: “As we were saying before we were so rudely interrupted…”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Wikipedia: Jasmine Bligh<\/a>)<\/p>\n

If it worked for the BBC after a break of nearly seven years then it can work for me and my two and half month blog break\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u00a6<\/p>\n

Thank you to all my blog family and friends who sent emails and text messages, your patience, concern and threats have not gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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