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And Yaffle wasn't just a carved book end in the shape of a woodpecker, though he was certainly that as well.

When he had his own Yaffle period, Gordon Brown knew this too.

At the end of the programme, Professor Yaffle would yawn again and fall asleep.

Here is our Yaffle in his more characteristic behaviour, probing the soft ground near a pond edge for insects.

Professor Yaffle was created as the Bookend who had access to "facts".

Professor Yaffle was just an old wooden bookend in the shape of a woodpecker.

Not only that but they also do a pretty good line in Bagpuss and Professor Yaffle.

A green woodpecker's laughing yaffle call rang out.

The mice then trick Yaffle by pertending to fly in the basket when it is really being lifted on a bit of string.

Professor Yaffle spoke like a clever professor.

Listen for the noisy call or 'yaffle' of green woodpeckers, which feed on the ants from the anthills in the meadow.

Let the Tories have Professor Yaffle.

Professor Yaffle once told the story of the wise man of Ling-Po who just wanted to live in peace with his friends the turtles.

Listen for the noisy song of the rare Cetti's Warbler and the yaffle of the green woodpecker.

Records received were usually of single birds often detected by their distinctive 'yaffle' and they covered as far up the Wharfe valley as Grass Wood.

Professor Yaffle', the wooden bookend character in the 1974 children's animation series Bagpuss, was based loosely upon the green woodpecker. '

A Yaffle of Newfoundland Slang: My project is about Newfoundland English.

The call is a loud ringing laugh, plue, plue, plue, very like the green woodpecker's yaffle, but perhaps slightly faster.

She co-produced Monsoon Shootout jointly with Yaffle Films, UK.

The pink stripy cat, Professor Yaffle, and a small army of carved mice are loved by millions of children the world over, despite only 13 episodes being made.

They are a way, he says, to let decision makers know who to go to for help in specific policy areas, much the same way as Yaffle works as a research matchmaker.

One of his house designs was Yaffle Hill, Broadstone, Dorset, built in 1929 for Cyril Carter of Poole Pottery.

Yaffle' was among many English folk names for the European green woodpecker relating to its laughing call; others include laughing Betsey, yaffingale, yappingale and Jack Eikle.

There was Gabriel the toad, a rag doll called Madeleine, and a wooden woodpecker which was a bookend (something to stop a row of books falling over) called Professor Yaffle.

Starred Gabriel the banjo wielding Frog, Madeleine the rag-doll, a woodpecker called Professor Yaffle who was a talking book-end and lots of mice who lived in the marvellous, mechanical, mouse-organ.