Here's a mini piece of news. In the process of rooting through the archives in preparation for the book, several Last of the Summer Wine scripts have been unearthed – in Roy's own handwriting, no less.
Pain in general springs to mind, if you imagine period pain and times it by how many hours you're in labour for that's child birth pain but I've seen videos of men crying and begging for relief on a period pain simulator, rolling round...
They're probably alluding to the likes of man-flu and the like which are of course deeply troubling or the fact that living under a thumb with a sharp toungue is rather painful!
I believe myself that Russ Abbot turned his back on acting after Boomers was cancelled , the show I thought was good and with a really strong cast including our Gordon [ Phil Jackson] , Alison Steadman , Stephanie Beecham , Paula Wilcox...