The Garden Fence - proper Old Style support and chat!

pollyanna_26

I've been thinking the same thing Mrs SD. There doesn't seem to be much effort in the script writing now. Sometimes boring and at times odd.

I've watched since young Charlie Fairhead turned up for his first day. I like Dylan and Ethan think they made a mistake writing his brother out.

It just got bizarre in recent years Connie stealing meds but returning again. That wouldn't happen in real life.

Many off the staff seem to have morphed in to homicidal maniacs at times then all back to normal.

Sometimes I wonder why I bother!

pollyx

ETA watched every single episode of Hill St Blues over the years. One night I settled down to watch it ,partway through I was in an ambulance on my way to the Maternity hospital. My babies certainly chose their moments to arrive. I'd been puffing and panting determined to get through the end  but it became impossible .

Years later I bought the whole boxset of Hill St Blues and watched it all over the months.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

What great taste you have pollyanna_26 🙂 My favourite was Belker 😉

pollyanna_26

Looks like we're both in the land of the sleepless Mrs SD. I'm about to try again to sleep. Can't remember the name of my favourite but it was the one deeply traumatised when he was attacked.  It was something not really on my radar back then but much more common in recent times and horrifying.

He was a plain clothes officer and a real character. I had to fast forward past that when I rewatched all the episodes I couldn't bear to watch that part again.

I remember Sgt  Belker not sure if that was him though. Was Belker the duty sargeant " You all be careful out there"? I can picture faces but not put mames to them all now.

I can picture Frank Furillo clear as day and the duty Sergeant also the face of my favourite but not his characters name.

It was tough to watch sometimes but totally realistic down to earth and sometimes brutal but highly commended by the officers and detectives fighting crime in those tough times.

Just had a google. No idea why I didn't think of that earlier. I may sleep now rather than searching my memory! My favourite was Sgt Mike (Mick) Belker too. The undercover detective.

pollyx

monnagran

Polly, I really don't have room in my wardrobe for any more casual visitors, whether they are in hot water or not.

Sorry.  I couldn't resist it.

Like you, I've watched Casualty since Charlie was in short pants, but when I moved I had no TV for a bit and when I was all connected up again I found that a lot of the series that I'd been addicted to held no interest for me.  I think that the plots have become so improbable and the writers so desperate to keep up their viewing figures, that they have become ridiculous.
Remember Emmerdale Farm?  Who would have thought that the day to day lives of country folk would have evolved into the horror of mass murders.

Mind you, who would have thought that a wee Scottish housewife would have branched out into abduction and murder and the decimation of protected species.  Not to mention bodies in freezers and under patios.  And strange dietary habits.
Life stranger than fiction indeed.

pollyanna_26

Knowing you love to be the host with the most  monna I sometimes wonder if your book of etiquette is seriousley outdated.You are not obliged to accommodate casual visitors by squashing them into your wardrobe. You'll have no space for your clothes and will be wandering naked at this rate . That willl lower your hard won status. If it makes the papers you may be forced to kick your hot waiter out and hide in there yourself.

I used to watch Emmerdale in the early days. Nice country folk going about their daily tasks. I also watched Farmhouse Kitchen with Grace Mulligan a farmers wife. I have her very thick cookbooks from long ago.

Emmerdale started going downhill and became more of a soap. I can't stand soaps so stopped watching. Casualty, Holby and many others started becoming soapy so I stopped watching many things.  I abandoned Holby last year. I'm sticking with Casualty because if they do finish it I'd like to see how.

Will Charlie Fairhead throw a wobbler scream "I have given my life for over 30 years to this place and it's been a waste of my

time"Then set the hospital on fire.

There is a song I often suggest people listen to. "One God" written by Paul Heaton and Dave Rothery of "The Beautiful South"

They looked around saw the direction things were going and were spot on. They didn't anticipate a pandemic but did see the decline in the way people lived their lives ruled by money dragged along by commercialism and often no way back.

The line "Coca Cola clouds behind a Big Mac Sun" and many others summed it up perfectly.

You can watch that on UTube or read the lyrics online. It was a warning ignored by many but it's stayed in my head since I first heard it.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Where have you all gone? We're over on page 2 again.  Please tell me the Ming didn't organise a coach trip behind my back to veiw the First Manifestion of a Possessed Freezer in Scotland. I've often wondered how big that freezer is. Big enough for a Heffalump should fit a few deluded visiters in . The Heffalump having been used up a long time ago

Perhaps in her small wee hoose she has a deal with a local butcher for housing the famous freezer while she can contiue as usual. It must attract many who want to see The First Manifestation of a Haunted Freezer in Scotland . She'll probably charge for viewings, Butchers sales will go through the roof and she can coninue her dubious practises under cover of darkness.

Think I'll stick to Monnas entertaining guests in her shower room. More tranquil I imagine unless the Hot Waiter decides to make a bid for freedom while she's otherwise engaged..

He may have overheard the gossip at the party. Poor Peter Ginn imprisoned for a long time in Mar's coal shed. I cheered him when he finally made a break for freedom and ran all the way down the hill.

pollyx

monnagran

I'll have you know Polly, that my hot waiter is perfectly happy in my wardrobe.  True it's not a very big wardrobe, but he is perfectly at home in it.  He has made a sort of recliner behind some very stylish Charity Shop finds (OK, my sort of stylish might not be everyone's, but there you go,) and a footstool out of a jumble of shoes.  He is allowed out at intervals to practise a bit of hot waitering, we don't want his skills to get rusty before the next Fence Party, do we?  What more could anyone want?

That is a rhetorical question, by the way.  No answer is required.
Any comparison between my hot waiter and those poor unfortunates imprisoned in a Northern coal cellar is quite unnecessary.

MingVase

It was not a coal cellar. It was a bijou rural residence. A rustic abode. He was fine innit, and he did not escape. I got bored of him and left the door open!

And yes in fact I do have a very friendly local butcher who delivers meat to my door...

burtha

is he allowed out for my hen do monna .... 

MingVase

Hope everybody lived through the night of Dudley. Our garden is full of broken slate, big heavy chunks of it.