[ViridianFan]

It was the BBC one balloon. My grandparents live in Scotland overlooking the iconic forth bridges. Whenever I saw it, it used to make them feel a bit closer as we lived in Norfolk and only saw them maybe once or twice a year. 

I had always been fascinated by the forth bridge and grandparents would always tell me about things happening connected to it. I can remember some day Nan was ok the phone and just said there had been a beautiful hot air balloon by the bridge and grandad had taken some photos  for me to see. 

I think of the day they launched my Nan rang up and said that’s the balloon we saw over the bridges. The excitement the first time I saw the ident on the telly for the first time I can’t put into words. 

Next Easter when we went up grandad showed us the photos. He told me he’d been in the front garden looked up toward the bridge and spotted a hot air balloon floating over it. He quickly ran in and took some photos as he couldn’t remember ever having seen one flying over the bridge. He then pointed out the helicopter saying he now realised that the helicopter was film. 

It was totally amazed by it. 

I think the the rebrand of the news I found fascinating. It was so different to anything else. 

On a side note, I used to be a primary school teacher and I did a media unit where we looked at the evolution of the media. We took the kids to broadcasting house on a trip. The other thing we did was create our own idents using the school logo. I showed them a range of BBC idents from over the years. They loved the 1997 BBC 2 set and most were based on that. They did their own version of paint, a cake one. Thwy were great.