Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

I've got serious reservations about "Victoria".

I can't put my finger on why I don't like it very much, although I will continue to watch it.

I think it probably has subtle anachronisms that are spoiling it for me, and I don't like the way they have scripted the servants. It just all seems a bit silly.
I mean, the lady's maid who is personal dresser to the Queen consorting with the kitchen staff? I don't think so!


There was a TV drama serial about Victoria yonks ago that was much, much better.............





......edit....I might be thinking about the Edward VII drama series, in which Annette Crosbie played Victoria and featured heavily in the series, but I thought there was another one. That was a very good series, anyway, and worth getting the boxed set.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

There was a TV drama serial about Victoria yonks ago that was much, much better.............

"Mrs Brown" perchance?
That was first class - Judi Dench as Victoria and Billy Connolly as John Brown, the latter playing an unexpected, surprising and extremely good straight role.

......edit....I might be thinking about the Edward VII drama series, in which Annette Crosbie played Victoria and featured heavily in the series, but I thought there was another one. That was a very good series, anyway, and worth getting the boxed set.

The '70s costume drama with Timothy West as Edward VII? I vaguely remember it, and seem to recall it was very good.

SingleSue

Middle son back to uni yesterday, he is in a student house this year with friends. Not a bad house as student housing goes, a few niggles and things not right but it is certainly better than the house in the Young Ones.

His room is massive, a big double bed gets dwarfed in there and it still isn't the biggest in the house, you could probably fit most of my upstairs just in his room and at a rent almost £50 a week cheaper than halls but their kitchen and lounge areas are really quite tiny....complete with a huge smart television, goodness knows how they can stand watching that telly in that tiny room I will never know, I would have to be about 30ft away but that is what they are used to nowadays I suppose (my own telly is a 49 inch one and that is only just far enough away in my front room for me and that is double the depth of their lounge).

He has a longer walk to uni but still within a reasonable distance but the biggest plus for them is that the town centre is literally a couple of minutes away..the biggest plus for me is that they have a couple of parking spaces so somewhere to park when I pick him up/drop him off even if they are on an awkward junction which means having to find somewhere to turn around to get onto the road behind their house to park (or do an illegal U turn, not my style so not going to happen)

Next week is the uni run back for James, he is back in halls again but not as an SR this year and at a different halls to the one he has been at.

chris_m

SingleSue wrote: »

Middle son back to uni yesterday, he is in a student house this year with friends. Not a bad house as student housing goes, a few niggles and things not right but it is certainly better than the house in the Young Ones.

Surely ANYTHING is better than that?
:rotfl:

ivyleaf

Hope the boys have a good year, Sue Where will Josh practise his drumming? I'm smiling to imagine the drums competing with the huge TV, but I suppose they'll stay on campus *

The only bit I can remember about Timothy West as Edward VII is the part where he's about to leave for the Abbey to be crowned and he appears in all his regalia, and his grandchildren are awestruck and afraid to speak to him and he says something like "Well, children, am I not a funny old Grandpapa?" and dances about with them

Pastures I have to say I'm not having any trouble hearing the dialogue in Poldark, and I often have problems with dialogue on TV. Strange.

*Mind you, the neighbours certainly wouldn't be smiling

SingleSue

Ah, his room is big enough that his kit fits in no problems at all..in fact the room is so big that his kit looks small! He has however been warned not to take the pee out of his house mates and neighbours when it comes to playing them, something he is used to anyway bearing in mind the kit lives at my parent's house usually with the resultant restrictions on playing time and hours.

SingleSue

chris_m wrote: »

Surely ANYTHING is better than that?
:rotfl:

Yep!

I'm not sure what I was expecting but I think I had the expectation it was going to be a tad grotty. Ok, the house isn't exactly perfect on the finish, there are a few little things but they are really just small annoyances but on the whole, I think they got a pretty good property with a lovely (quite sizeable) private area to sit out in, 2 parking spaces in an area where there is no parking, a huge smart television (yes they have organised a TV license), fibre optic broadband, Tivo and massive bedrooms for less than £100 a week, bills included.

In comparison, James had a look at private student lets where he is, firstly the cheapest was just over £100 and that was for a tiny bedroom where a single bed only just fitted in, with extra to pay for broadband and other things, to get anywhere near what Josh has got, well, let's just say he would have to have very rich parents to afford it over and above what he receives from student finance.

It was quite a nice surprise for me really after having nightmares about falling down ceilings, damp and goodness knows what else.

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

... it would have helped if they'd introduced some of the village inhabitants, particularly Zaccy Martin, by name earlier.

To be honest, the soundtrack is so awful on my (old, portable) TV that I didn't realise people HAD names!

PasturesNew

I followed a tree line.... girl with a strange name. Then she died, aged 8

But I spotted her brother had married that year and named his first born after her

So I had to follow her line.

At 14 she was working at a mega mansion; the Downton Abbey size/style manor house of a Victorian Iron magnate. Unfortunately he died the following year ... but it's OK, I spotted she'd got married a few years later.

So, back on track - do we have a happy ending? Kind of.

Seems to have had a generally settled life; had two children, one died, had a 3rd and 4th. Boys seemed to live at home until parents were dead. They seem to have been doing fine, financially/stability wise.

Awww ... she died in 1905. Her husband died 1915.

So that was "good" then. Nice, straight forward lives.

So let's chuck in their location/surname into the newspaper archives: seem to be farmers, doing well, scanned down and....

FOUND HUNG!

Oh noes! It's the grandson!

chris_m

You certainly pick them