Griff9of13
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7 minutes ago, bobbruce said:
Diane Oxberry BBC northwest.
That's very sudden, she was still working just before Christmas and she's not that old, just 51.
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2 hours ago, Futtocks said:
My Dad has a Fire TV Stick, but usually forgets it is there. Tonight, however, we enjoyed a Victoria Wood Christmas special, before I introduced him to 'Inside No.9' for the first time. He liked it!
Currently watching John Betjeman's 'Summoned by Bells'.
We're working our way through the entire Inside No 9 back catalogue over the holiday period as they're all on the iPlayer. Brilliant stuff even though I've seen them all before at least once. Just finished "La Couchette".
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9 hours ago, Futtocks said:
Call me a cynical materialis, but as soon as I heard rik Mayall had died, I went straight on Amazon to buy the 'Bottom' box set before the price went up.
BTW, Rik & Ade did 5 or 6 live 'Bottom' shows, which are all available in full on YouTube. Recommended, especially when they crack up and come out of character..
Which is often.
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The only thing I made a point of watching yesterday was the Upstart Crow Christmas special. Glad I did.
Probably get slated for it, but our main viewing of the day was Love Actually on Netflix. I know it's deeply uncool to say so, but I think it's a really good film; well written and well acted.
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On 11/10/2018 at 10:40 AM, Johnoco said:
Great documentary on Sky Arts tonight at 10pm about The Damned. Think I've seen most of it before but it's really good. Funny as F... too
Off to see them at the end of the month. I've never managed to catch them before so really looking forward to it.
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On Gold right now, the first ever episode of Dad's Army - exactly 50 years to the day and minute since it was originally aired.
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On 5/28/2018 at 9:18 AM, Futtocks said:
Having missed the first episode of 'A Very English Scandal', I caught most of the second last night. Highly recommended!
We watched the last two episodes last night. Excellent stuff. Two things stood out:
How attitudes to homosexually have changed (for the better) in a relatively short time from being illegal when I was a kid to where we are now.
The power of the establishment. It makes you wonder just how much has changed when it comes to the miss-deeds of the rich and powerful.
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On 5/28/2018 at 1:15 AM, Bedford Roughyed said:
A new Jonathan Meades on BBC4. A bloke just talking using big words for an hour shouldn't work... but I like it.
On 5/28/2018 at 1:41 AM, Futtocks said:Go here. Enjoy a ton of videos by Meades: http://meadesshrine.blogspot.co.uk/p/shrine.html
His cookbook is also a joy - every page includes the footnote "Vegetarianism is curable".
I've always been a big fan of his, but I couldn't really tell you why. Like you say, it's just a bloke meandering around talking, and yes using some big words but in this latest one he used some pretty short ones as well! Thanks for the link, I will have to check it out.
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2 hours ago, ckn said:
My comment was a bit flippant, as with most things to do with winter driving, it's how you drive just as much as what you drive that's important. No braking on corners, slower braking, slower acceleration, etc.
I had to take Mrs Griff9of13 for winter driving lessons last year after she put her car in a ditch on an icy road. She didn't know any of those things, especially not breaking while cornering; hence ending up in a ditch.
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1 hour ago, ckn said:
The 4 wheel drive thing is a massive difference, I notice the difference with my current car which isn't 4wd. The best car I've ever driven in the snow was my old Audi TT, huge fat winter tyres (kept on all year round!) with 4wd and a 3.2l engine. It just gripped everything and its light weight meant that it didn't suffer from the inertia problems of heavy vehicles.
I don't just drive a 4wd, I drive a Land Rover.
I've currently got a Discovery 3 which I use for my business; the floor space in the back is 6'x4', big enough for most of my materials and I can fit 3m lengths of timber in if I fold down the passenger seat. It's really a van that is also a 7 seat luxury saloon. They really are incredible machines. I've driven mine in deep snow and off road through thigh deep water and up muddy tracks that you would have had difficulty walking up without dropping to your hands and knees.
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9 minutes ago, Kayakman said:
Yes, but all season radials are way better than summer tires and overcome your mileage, wear problems you have with snow tires...do you have radial all seasons?
I have Pirelli Scorpion Zero ATs fitted which cope fine with most conditions. If I lived somewhere with regular snow I'd invest in winter tyres, but at around £600 - £800 for a set of 4 I'm not prepared to pay out for a snowfall that may happen once every 5 years or so.
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7 minutes ago, GeordieSaint said:
It wouldn’t bother me; love the snow and extreme conditions. The UK however is not set up for such extreme weather conditions so in some ways we are quite lucky such occurrences happen rarely. But on the flip side, we don’t half collectively look pathetic when a 1cm of snow falls (I caveat some areas like my area neck of the woods and other remote regions are pretty hardy).
Yep. Pretty much what happened here this morning; a couple of cm of wet slush and the roads were gridlocked in every direction. Folks round here are totally clueless when it comes to driving in what way laughably minimal as far as adversely affecting a car's traction. Some were inching along at below 10mph in conditions, in terms of grip, no worse than heavy rain as the traffic churned up the snow that was on top of well gritted roads immediately. The speediest part of my journey was when I took the narrow back roads that fortunately all but two others were to frit to drive down.
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1 hour ago, GeordieSaint said:
Snowing again here...
Don't see you getting stuck if those are your wheels.
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Blizzard conditions here on Merseyside this morning.
How will we cope.
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1 minute ago, Futtocks said:
Someone mentioned this before, but at the time they didn't know the broadcast date. Really looking forward to this!
I think I picked it up from Jiffy's Twitter feed a few days ago.
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This coming Sunday on BBC 2 Wales at 19.00 (Sky channel 971 for those of us not living in Wales), The Rugby Codebreakers, the story of the players "going north". It promises to be a full and frank account of the issues and reasons for the migration.
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18 hours ago, Shadow said:
It's Snowmageddon in Southern Wiltshire.
I'm off to Waitrose to do some panic buying of Tapenade and Avocados
Pretty much the same here on the north west coast. How will we cope?
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On 06/02/2018 at 8:18 PM, Futtocks said:
Back in Time for Tea on BBC2 switches from the Robshaws (Back in Time for Dinner) living through the changes in middle-class life, to the Ellis family, experiencing working-class life in Bradford. And, you'll note, it is now "tea" instead of "dinner".
Unsurprisingly, Giles Coren is not on board for this development.
The best bit so far was when they went into the back yard and saw a mangle. One parent says "Do you know what that is?"
One of their kids replies "A pasta maker?"
Just catching up with this today. One observation, in Bradford wouldn't they be weaving wool (or possibly even alpaca in Saltaire) and not cotton?
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14 hours ago, Futtocks said:
On the other hand, the BBC have wielded the axe on Len Goodman's Partners in Rhyme, so that's a positive. In the words of the Grauniad's TV reviewer, it was a "fermented kaleidoscope of dung".
I heard one of the best review lines ever on the radio yesterday: "this is one of the ten films to die before you see".
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1 hour ago, Futtocks said:
Well, if anyone was wondering where Marwan Koukash would turn up next, he's got a C4 TV series starting next week, in a programme called My Millionaire Migrant Boss.
I know someone who used to work for him. I doubt her opinions of him would be broadcastable!
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4 minutes ago, ckn said:
This story annoys me. I don't speed, I'm a happy 70mph cruise control driver. I like the concept of the 10% buffer to allow exceptions, such as overtaking without having to keep one eye on the speedometer and things like that, to get rid of it is just anal in the extreme by someone who really should have higher priorities for being one of the most senior police officers in England.
Until car manufacturers can 100% guarantee the accuracy of speedometers then there's no way that the 10% buffer can be scrapped without swamping the legal system with challenges.
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11 hours ago, Ullman said:
Yep, I really hope they can maintain the quality for the rest of the series.
Nothing to worry about if last night's is anything to go by; yet another brilliantly funny and original episode.
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1 hour ago, Futtocks said:
The breadth and variety of their talent, too. Comparing episode 2 with episode 1 is like seeing two entirely different shows.
Every single episode, from series 1 to last night's, is currently available on iPlayer. Make the most of it.
I have been. It was almost worth being laid up in bed for days with flu over the Christmas period for; one of the things that kept me going. Stand outs, this time round, "A Quiet Night In" and "Cold Comfort", but there's not really a bad one.
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13 hours ago, Wiltshire Rhino said:
Peaky Blinders is an absolutely brilliant TV show! Only problem is the next series wont be until 2019.
That photo was shot a mile or so from my house. People (female people to be precise) got very excited when they were here filming.
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Yes, me too. But I'm finding it difficult as I'm working away from home Monday - Friday ATM. I can't justify forking out the sort of money for a hotel that includes a gym. I have begun a series of moderate exercises in the hotel bedroom though; sit ups and press ups. And I have also had a couple of goes out on a "Sadiq Cycle" last week. Very modest stuff I know, but got to start somewhere.