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    Gentle Comedies

    Any fans of Oh Doctor Beeching ? It is being shown on That's TV today should anyone want to watch and/or record I have set a series link on my TIVO box.
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    Hi

    I had the absolute pleasure of attending Newcastle's Theatre Royal yesterday for the matinee of The Last Laugh which is a play set in a dressing room of a theatre and is about the meeting of three of the greatest stars allegedly there to do a show Tommy Cooper , Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse...
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    Left hand - Right hand, total strangers!

    Hokey Cokey springs to mind Your appointment's on Your appointment's off On , Off , On ,Off they ain't treating your tickly cough IS that Hokey Cokey ? No its $%£" not That's what its all about. :mad:
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    Live Aid

    Watched Sting at Isle of Wight last weekend on Sky Arts he can still sing , reinvented some of his hits but to be fare the crowd seemed ambivalent most of the set, didn't seem to identify with him at all even Edith Bowman seemed to struggle to enthuse in that gushing manner you associate with...
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    My Castle. My Kingdom

    Not a years supply of Cornish Pasties ? :08:
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    Live Aid

    Watched like you on TV recall Quo and Rockin all over the world , it elevated Queen to cult status it not only offered great entertainment but raised awareness at a time of great suffering , did it change the world , yes for a while but sadly the same issues and more remain.
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    Church bells by Sids.

    Mention of church bells can't help but make me remember the Time on my Hands episode when the paratrooper is caught on the church clock and Mainwairing's , Jones and Fraser's hat are used to silence the bell to their detriment.
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    Yorkshire 25

    I was in Saltburn last year and will be next week as staying in Whitby and will use the ol' bus pass to travel up on a day trip . Sadly the Funicular was still being repaired last year but I believe it is back in service and is a must to travel on for the sheer admiration of the engineering ...
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    My Castle. My Kingdom

    Bamburgh is iconic and wonderful to visit but for me it is Ford Castle in Northumberland because we had a field trip from school whilst in the sixth form and stayed in the Castle . We learned to play croquet , never ever played since , the lawn was near the battlements so had fun knocking...
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    Surprisingly brilliant cats

    Perhaps the cleverest cast ever.
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    The Infamous Metal Detector Question.....

    I feel as disadvantaged as your good self Marianna Newcastle Airport has limited destinations when compared to Manchester and even Edinburgh . It offers basically Southern Spain [inc the Canaries] , Turkey , Dubai with the odd flights to German and Italian cities anywhere else you either travel...
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    The Infamous Metal Detector Question.....

    It is Newcastle upon Tyne Marianna in the North East of England and if they kept digging to a significant depth they may find some relics. Northumberland St in the days of Coach and Horses journeys it was the main route between England and Scotland .
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    What Episode #33

    They wouldn't dare perhaps with solving all these questions they think you are up there with the rock gods like Led Zeppelin :03: { Right lads think we got away with it, sure she'll swallow that -oops did I say that out loud I'm Dead] :eek::13:;)
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    Cataracts

    My mum had hers done a few years before she passed away and honestly post op it was like when Father Jack sobers up in one of the Father Ted episodes . With all the cloudiness gone and clear vision she was pointing at things and just like Jack and shouting what it was just like him "Chair !"...
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    The Infamous Metal Detector Question.....

    Below are a couple of pictures of the main shopping street [Northumberland street] in Newcastle City Centre . It seems that Commander Willoughby has been up to his old tricks and has sold a copy of his map and persuaded someone very high up in the council that the treasure is buried in...
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    Gentle Comedies

    In one episode they play the train game where they have to basically memorize or look up train times having drawn a card which states they need to travel from A to B and they have to assimilate the trains and times that will allow them to make that journey. I always thought it would be something...
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    The Summerwine.net music thread

    I met him pre gig many many moons ago he was just wandering around Newcastle City Centre not many people recognised him but I of course I did shook his hand [ gently] an said how much I was looking forward to the gig that night and not to impose I moved on as did he.
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    Pippa , Jemima, Alisdair [dont dare say Alistair] and Sebastian

    Certainly were Wellyman every word that stressed their supposed importance was propagated to their brain and onward to be uttered at infinitum
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    Yorkshire 23

    Here are five people from the show enjoying the views though Cleggy's view is somewhat obscured
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    It would be Lovely

    Is it the Kyle of Lochalsh Terry ? My ambition to get there someday .
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