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Band Of Brothers – read the book a while ago and have been waiting for the series to come back on TV – very good so far IMO.
I’ve just got around to watching ‘No Man’s Land’. It was on BBC2 about 3 O’clock in the morning a couple of weeks ago – did anyone see it?
The ending had me sat in stunned silence for about 10 mins – unbelievable.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/films/2002/05/01/no_mans_land_2002_review.shtml
I’m going to be watching the new Day of the Triffids next year once the BBC has made it!!! I love that book!
Saw ‘Tom’s Midnight Garden’ at the theatre last night…was my favourite children’s book, even though I was probably about 25 when I read it….made me realize why I am so obsessed with clocks, ghosts, time and angels…..the author has a lot to answer for!
Me too Moehat! Have you read The Valley of Secrets by Charmaine Hussey? I think you’d like that.
I’ll make a note of that KT; I’m off to Waterstones next week…at the end of Tom’s Midnight Garden I was so worried that I was going to burst into tears at the end and make an idiot of myself…I then dug out the tv series from years back and re watched the whole lot…..the author has recently died, I think but she had a new book out not long ago…..it’s also recently been serialized on the radio but I missed it…..Ely Cathedral is on my tick list of places to visit..time no longer……
Oh yes ‘Time no longer’ ……….gives you goose bumps just saying it!
Ely is great, if you can, get up the tower of the catherdral the views are unbelievable. You can imagine them ice skating on the river!
I must look out for the new book, I didn’t know she had written a recent one. I need a new one!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/philippa-pearce-429660.html
Keep it shtoom, sir – at least, just temporarily whilst I tout to get my re-make of The Tomorrow People commissioned…
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I’m going to be watching the new Day of the Triffids next year once the BBC has made it!!! I love that book!
Following hot on the heels of the re-make of Survivors.
Have thez reallz done a remake of Survivors???
I liked that one!!
I’ve just accidentally [honest] flicked onto the bowling on the telly and it’s sponsored by the Co op funeral plan; all the ‘players’ [who seem to be yawning whilst competeing] have got advertising on their shirts…is this a bit insensitive or very clever advertising?
I was once told by a bowls regular (one of those elderly people you see with the sun visor’s at the indoor bowls watching the great Hugh Duff – he’s the one who looks like Simon Clare) that the reason they wear a sun visor was so that the people watching on TV couldn’t tell when they’d fallen asleep
I am well off the pace here, but I watched Fonjacker for the first time about a fortnight ago and it is f**kin brilliant.
A variation on an old theme (Candid Camera), it is the most inspired comedy acting since Ali G first turned up on the 11 O’Clock Show.
I don’t cry with laughter too often but this has me in floods!
You can get the DVD of series 1 and 2 for £17.99 on Play.com. I ordered it the other day. Series 1 is about 12 quid and Series 2 is about the same price so £17.99 for both is pretty good. You can watch loads of the clips on youtube.
I downloaded some of them to my phone. Use http://www.mediaconverter.org and change format to 3gp, keep audio etc the same, convert the file, download it to your PC and then bluetooth it to your phone or use a USB cable. I keep laughing at the one where he is ringing someone and pretending to be from a dating agency based in India. This one:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DZpw2eTSolc
TERRY Tibbs
The Ugandan is great Firefox – if you get a chance to watch the first series on youtube etc. then listen to him talking about the illegal card reader and how they steam clean the vault at your bank.
Fonejacker: Hello Madame my name is George, i’m calling from your bank
Woman: Which bank?
Fonejacker: Your bank
Woman: Which is?
Fonejacker: The bank that you bank with
The guy behind it appeared on Have I got news for you. Ian Hislop asked him why was it necessary for him to wear a mask in order to make the calls ?
That flummoxed the fonejacker. He had no answer to that.
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Did anyone else see this? It was screened a couple of weeks ago now but I still get flash backs and still wonder ‘why’?
Andrew McAuley was attempting to be the first man to cross the treacherous Tasman sea (Aus to NZ) on his own in a Kayak. After 30 days and nights and battling through 40 foot swells in pitched black darkness, it is thought that a rogue wave no more than two or three metres high tipped him up, and without the strength to rectify the situation plus damage to his flimsy capsule, he perished. He’d covered 1500km of his journey and was roughly 24 hours away from reaching his destination with land in sight. His body has never been found and he left behind a wife and young son.
Personally, I think this man was seriously flawed – how can anybody make such a reckless decision? The whole documentary was very moving, especially the start of this youtube clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvCt3AVWr2s
I’ve got my own damning thoughts on this man but really hope someone else can help me judge from a different perspective. I’d really like to hear peoples thoughts on this guy. Brave? Selfish?……
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