repeated watching of Disney’s the Good Dinosaur has been necessary over the past week or so.

I must have seen the first half a dozen times, but only got to the end once or twice.

This is but a small price to pay for a happy two-and-a-half year old but I admit to having quickly turned over once he had dozed off one afternoon.

It was at this time I happily discovered I could watch some of the Australian Open tennis without having to pay to subscribe to the sports channels.

This was quite a discovery since up until ITV4 starting showing the French Open a few months ago, you pretty much could only ever watch Wimbledon and Queens.

A certain British World Number One may have something to do with this epiphany.

But this doesn’t wash with an under the weather boy - who with one eye suddenly open quickly demanded “dinosaur” be restored.

So back to children’s television we swiftly returned.

When the favoured film is not on a loop, we are also watching a lot of Postman Pat: Special Delivery Service, Tellytubbies and Bing.

Bing is a rabbit, a very whiny rabbit, who constantly has to deal with the unfairness of life.

He has to share, play nicely with his friends, look after toys which belong to other people and wait his turn.

All of these things irritate him intensely - but luckily his guardian, Flop, is there to steer him in the right direction.

My husband and I like to amuse ourselves by coming up with alternative witticisms with which we would respond to Bing’s constant moaning.

‘I know you are tired Bing, but perhaps if you slept past 5am every day and let us all have a bit of a lie-in, then we would all be a bit happier.’ That sort of thing.

Randomly, the super-patient Flop is voiced by Oscar -winning Shakespearian actor Sir Mark Rylance.

Maybe doing children’s television is a welcome reprieve for the likes of Sir Mark and Tom Hardy, who to the delight of many over the festive period popped up reading the CBeebies bedtime story, from their day job.

I like the idea of Rylance wrapping up filming with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg on their hit film Bridge of Spies and heading off to a tiny recording booth to deal with the day-to-day hardships of a demanding pre- school bunny