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Jellore wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unmkX15AeN8

RIP

Yes, RIP. She was hilarious.

I used to watch "Are you being Served" every week when it was on
here for a few years. Mrs. Slocomb was so funny. I liked Captain
Pea*** too. He is in "The Last of the Summer Wine" every week
on Vision TV in my area. Its been on for a long time. Other
weekly British programs I sometimes watch is "On the
buses","Waiting for God" and "Sorry" and one of my old
favourites is "As Time Goes By". Lately I've got a new
favourite British weekly TV -"Doc Martin" on Vision TV and
another night on PBS. I like the guy who plays Doc Martin. Do
you get Vision TV and ever watch those weekly programs Nil?

Mary

Hi Mary, I noticed a little while back that my mother likes to
watch, "All Creatures Great and Small". I have watched a number
of British shows from time to time over the years, they are
usually quite good, especially the comedies.

I watch "All Creatures Great and Small" but not all the time. I am
not sure which TV channel its on, but the ones I mentioned are
mostly on Vision TV at 8 or 9 pm. different days of the week. I
like a lot of the British shows, many of which are comedies. They
have a different sense of humour which I like. I grew up hearing a
similar type of humour when I lived in Scotland. At the movies, we
mainly only saw British films at the time except for now and then
American films. I was very influenced by those movies from early
on. Is
your mother Scottish Jeff?

Mary

No Mary, she was born in Liverpool of an English mother and a Welsh
father. My father was born in Liverpool of an Irish descent mother
and of Scottish descent father. My fathers parents were both Roman
Catholic and I believe both their families fled the Potato famines
that struck both Ireland and Scotland. His mothers family were from
county Cork, but I'm not sure where in Scotland, his fathers family
hailed from.

Quite a mixture in there. :)

Yes, I refer to myself as being, pure-blooded British. Others of
course are more likely to think in terms of *a dogs dinner*, or
possibly a *Heinz 57*. <g>

Many books and articles have been
written about the potato famine in Ireland in the mid 1840's. The
Highlands of Scotland had a potato famine around the same time,
though I think Ireland was more widely affected by the potato famine
and more people died. Must have been a terrible time.

It's almost inconceivable for us to accept what happened, isn't it,
that so many people were allowed to die, to starve to death and in
the British Isles at that ? The Empire was so wealthy and yet.....

They were hard times and they were hard hearted people who allowed
these things to happen. When you read Charles Dickens and even
though what he wrote was fiction, you can still garner an inkling of
what life was like, in those times.

In Charles Dickens biographies much of what he wrote about,
especially in Oliver Twist and David Copperfield were based on his
own personal experiences as a child when his father and mother and
Charles ended up in a poorhouse for a time. Also,
Dickens later worked in a factory much like the ones in Oliver Twist
and David Copperfield so not all fiction. I love Charles Dickens
books, and the movies made from the books. Charles Dickens said his
favourite book and the person most like himself was David
Copperfield. Its mine too, though I liked Great Expectations the
movie with John Mills.

Mary

Yes, I always loved that novel and the movie version with John Mills was
great, plus of course my other favourite novel " A Christmas Carol" and
the
Alistair Sim movie version. naturally. I still try to watch it every year
and I faithfully look for a showing on Christmas Eve.

I have the DVD of A Christmas Carol in colour (naturally). The colour
version is quite nice. I also have the VHS in black and white and I watch
the movie on the TV around Christmas. And I agree, the Alistair Sim version
is the best that the rest are compared to. I have all the most well known
movies of Charles Dickens on DVD. I had a couple on VHS first, but when some
came on DVD, I bought them too as the prices of DVD's had come out by then,
and now they have BluRay, but I'm not buying one, though maybe eventually.
The prices have come down a lot but not enough yet for me. I saw one on sale
at Future shop a few weeks ago. I think it was Samsung for $199.99. They
didn't last long. I have 2 DVD players so not in a hurry to get BluRay
though it plays your old DVD movies, but DVD players don't play
BluRay -ughh.

Mary

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