Children's tv programme late 1980's early 1990s

[kittenbaby]

Can anyone please solve this mystery - I am trying to remember the name of a children's tv programme broadcast on I think BBC based around a family living in a large house with their grandmother (played by Liz Smith Nana in The Royal Family) The youngest daughter - called Daisy or Emily scribbled "all the bees are dead" in crayon all over the walls of this house. The programme was I think based on a children's book. Does anyone else remember it?

[ermintrude35]

...could be "Pirates" ??? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380944/usercommen ts

...if not , then check out this link to all of Liz Smith's tv and film appearances, you might spot one that sounds familiar... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0809131/

[dot.hawkes]

The Queens nose I thought

[SianEH]

I think this is Helen Cresswell's Bagthorpe saga... I was very young when it was on so I don't think I saw it, but I had the books and I remember that Daisy Bagthorpe scribbles "All the bees are ded" on the walls in one of the books (probably 'Absolute Zero'). She also has an invisible friend called 'Arry Awk. Media URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bagthorpe_Saga
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