Marianna
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Hello everyone.
I'm Marianna, a.k.a. "index4u", from south central upstate New York.
About ten years ago, my local Public Broadcasting station, WSKG Binghamton, broadcast a couple of seasons of LOTSW, from Leaving Home Forever (Or Till Teatime) to A Sidecar Named Desire, but not the Christmas specials that were originally aired between those seasons. I was hooked part way through Leaving Home Forever ..., so I did a bit of research and discovered that the series had started many years prior to that episode, and that the DVDs were available in the UK. It took more research to find a region-free player, but then I bought the first two DVD sets the next summer while I was staying in Canterbury.
It was frustration about the DVD releases not continuing on a frequent schedule that prompted me to do an internet search for "Last of the Summer Wine DVD series 25". That brought me to this web site and to the Series 25 & 26 DVD on the Way? thread. I registered in order to post to that thread, and I've been enjoying the site ever since.
I live in a pleasant village along the Chemung River, and have lived in this area all of my life except when I was away for college and university. I retired in 2001 from a career as a librarian, having worked for the final 13 years in a science and technology library. I grew up on a dairy farm about 10 miles from my present home.
My favorite pastimes are choral singing (I'm a mezzo-soprano), landscape photography, genealogy and travel, especially to the UK. The photography and the genealogy both contribute to itinerary planning. I've spent a week in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, because my maternal grandfather's ancestors emigrated from there to the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1639). Of course there's been some time in London at the British Museum looking at documents from that area dating earlier than their departure, as well as doing a lot of touristy activities while I was there. The other three branches of the family are Scottish, and I have yet to dig into those ancestral lines.
Last year I started my travel with some research in London, but spent most of my trip in the Lakes District, on a couple of photography holidays and a choral singing holiday. Of course, I spent the time between London and the Lakes in Huddersfield, with excursions to Summer Wine sites. This year's itinerary will take me to London for more genealogy research and touring, North Wales for photography and Derbyshire for industrial history.
Getting a bit long-winded, so I'll shut up for now.
I'm Marianna, a.k.a. "index4u", from south central upstate New York.
About ten years ago, my local Public Broadcasting station, WSKG Binghamton, broadcast a couple of seasons of LOTSW, from Leaving Home Forever (Or Till Teatime) to A Sidecar Named Desire, but not the Christmas specials that were originally aired between those seasons. I was hooked part way through Leaving Home Forever ..., so I did a bit of research and discovered that the series had started many years prior to that episode, and that the DVDs were available in the UK. It took more research to find a region-free player, but then I bought the first two DVD sets the next summer while I was staying in Canterbury.
It was frustration about the DVD releases not continuing on a frequent schedule that prompted me to do an internet search for "Last of the Summer Wine DVD series 25". That brought me to this web site and to the Series 25 & 26 DVD on the Way? thread. I registered in order to post to that thread, and I've been enjoying the site ever since.
I live in a pleasant village along the Chemung River, and have lived in this area all of my life except when I was away for college and university. I retired in 2001 from a career as a librarian, having worked for the final 13 years in a science and technology library. I grew up on a dairy farm about 10 miles from my present home.
My favorite pastimes are choral singing (I'm a mezzo-soprano), landscape photography, genealogy and travel, especially to the UK. The photography and the genealogy both contribute to itinerary planning. I've spent a week in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, because my maternal grandfather's ancestors emigrated from there to the Massachusetts Bay Colony (1639). Of course there's been some time in London at the British Museum looking at documents from that area dating earlier than their departure, as well as doing a lot of touristy activities while I was there. The other three branches of the family are Scottish, and I have yet to dig into those ancestral lines.
Last year I started my travel with some research in London, but spent most of my trip in the Lakes District, on a couple of photography holidays and a choral singing holiday. Of course, I spent the time between London and the Lakes in Huddersfield, with excursions to Summer Wine sites. This year's itinerary will take me to London for more genealogy research and touring, North Wales for photography and Derbyshire for industrial history.
Getting a bit long-winded, so I'll shut up for now.
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