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MrsCD

1st skirt done. If it's ok after ironing I'll do the 2nd skirt.

pollyanna_26

MrsCD said:

Colder, windy and heavy sky here today. I was going to pull some weeks but I'm wimping out and going to do some sewing instead. I have two skirts which are gathered at the front waistband, but they stick out too much, so I'm going to unpick and see if I can make them a bit flatter. Maybe pleats would work. DH is sorting his DVD recordings....could take a while!

Hope you get some relief from the pain soon, Polly.

Superdoc has referred me for scans. I should have realised what was wrong when my shoulder blades were hurting so much. That;s only happened with rotator cuff tears.

I used to record everything off the TV onto the humax box including  all The David Tennant Dr Who series including the Christmas specials.

All the Frasier series. I don't know if you ever watched Frasier but we were addicted to it. I still laugh remembering younger brother Niles enering Cafe Nervosa on a Segway.

It took us while for us to realise the irony of two hapless Psychiatrists having thir daily coffees in a cafe called Nervosa.

The end came when Humax stopped talking to Sony who made my TV and all my recordings were gone.

I bought youngest the Frasier boxset and when HMV wereclosing here one for myself at a very low £9.99. Hers had cost much more.

So that;s why there are boxed sets galore and other DVDs here.

Does your husband record his on to disc. I don't think I'd ever trust something like the Humax box again.

I love sewing and altering but gathered waists can be a bit tricky. Thanks for the good wishes , I need to catch up.

pollyx

pollyanna_26

Nan/Amy I hope you see this . I did read your lovely pm recently and really enjoyed it  however when I tried to reply I couldn't however many times I tried. I had a similar experience trying to reply to Mothernerd . No idea what the problem is . I cleared a lot  of pms and still  couldn't get my reply to go.

I hope all is welll with you and Mr Fixit and some of todays lovely sunshine found it's way to Wales. It's cold again now but the day was lovely.

pollx

MrsCD

Polly, yes, hubby records old programmes to discs. We have a Panasonic DVD recorder with Freeview, so he's collecting old things like Minder because even though they have a bit of fighting, there's very little or no bad language. We don't watch films or programmes where we would cringe at words we don't use! Sorry if I sound all prim and proper, we just don't see the need for bad language.😉

pollyanna_26

I understand whay you mean. I have a selection of Dvds the Cranford ones. Lark rise to Candleford . Jane Eyre and all the classics. Anything David Tennant Some gardenting ones including geoff hamilton. There's Yellowstone which has lively snowy footage of winer in Yellowstone. There's a lot but there isn't much I watch on TV. I'd be quite happy if they showed more virtual walks than some of the rubbish they show now.

I can only think or two full sets which feature swearing Rebus and Inspector George Gently but that that is the nature of police work. I always liked Martin Shaw as an actor and Ken Stott was Rebus as I'd pictured him when I read the books.

I've always liked wild wide open spces and saw those in the George Gently episodes . Same with Vera. I've always loved Edinburgh and whether it was old town or new town or the Oxford bar there it was in Rebus.

I've always hated swearing. it seems a bit pointless'when there are plenty of words to describe anger , frustration or sheer nastiness.

None of the family swore when I was growing up and I've never heard any of my children swear.Maybe they did away from home but they knew enough about manners and how to behave not to.

I used to watch Minder it made me laugh.Time passes and things change but I watch very little tv now. The Winter walks and virtual snowdrop and other walks have been what I'll remember .

You don't sound prim and proper you sound normal..

pollyx

MrsCD

Thank you, Polly. It sounds like we would watch the same things. George Gently and Vera were filmed in our patch, so we try to identify where they were filmed!

pollyanna_26

I think we'd get on welll MrsCD.

We sometimes get film crews here and early June last year Sean Bean was being filmed by a film crew. i decided to keep an eye on what he was filming as I'd not long watched him in "Broken" as a priest struggling to help those in difficulty in his parish while beginning to question his faith while bad things were happening to good people.

It was written by Jimmy McGovern my favourite playwright.

He writes about real life human situations sometimes hard to watch  but needing to be seen to focus on reality.

I later bought the dvd deciding if I was ever going to hold a one woman pity party during all the ups and downs of the pandemic I should watch Broken again  .

Last June another McGovern. Sean Bean as a not typical prisoner totally out of his depth and Stephen Grimes as the Prison Officer trying to protect him from a brutal prison regime where the prisoners had the upper hand over the staff.

Most of the prisoners and a number of staff had strong Liverpool accents.

The prison was called HMP Craigmore and I assumed it was intended to be Walton Goal which is pretty notorious in the Merseyside area.

I remember twice walking past the high walls with my mum. No idea why we were in that area but she told me only bad people went there so I was very good for a long time.

The prison they filmed was actually HMP Shrewsbury where prisons have stood for hundreds of years in different forms.

I found all the research quite interesting in the last few years. Much better than talking to the Walls like Shirley Valentine.

I also found out why Sean Bean had been here.

pollyx

mothernerd

Manchester Town Hall often fills in for the House of Commons (saw it most recently in 'it's a Sin') and Bolton Town hall and the Crescent (library and museum at one end and courts and social work offices at the other) is also on quite a lot - it was in Peaky Blinders (period entrance ways and the Crescent itself is still cobbled). The square in front of the town hall (the Crescent is the rear) was the stage for an episode of Between the Lines (Neil Pearson, Tom Georgeson and Siobhan Redmond as cops policing other cops) and in one of it's earlier incarnations was the backdrop for the film 'The Family Way' with Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett as the newlyweds, John Mills playing Hywel's domineering father whom they're forced to live with and Wilfred Pickles as uncle Fred.

The old GLC building was used a lot in Spooks and features as the corridors of power in many productions - I remember the pinky beige marble walls and dark brown woodwork.

pollyanna_26

I used to visit Manchester quite often and there a lot of good Architecture similar to our town.

I haven't been back since the Arena Bombing. I've never forgotten when the news broke or Tony reciting his poem that went viral around the world.

When he later stood at the top of Blackpool Tower strapped firmly on as the wind howled I listened to UP 'Ere and it brought the tears. Memories but the confitmation we would all stand together and make our love a shining becon across the NW.

I often picture little Saffies face she didn't live very far from here.

Senseless horror for the victims and their loved ones. But the voice  of Tony Walsh reading his words brought a kind of comfort

after something that could never be undone.

i used to be quite familiar with Bolton when one of my sisters lived in Bromley Cross in a nice area with lots of open space and access to good walks.

I loved the Market but a number of poeple have told me it isn;t what it was. I used to buy wool , fabric and all sorts there. I sometimes think a lot of things were like a different world back then..

pollyx

nannywindow

Hello Fencers, nice to see you posting once more, I'm guilty of being a bit lax lately in my posting, but RL keeps getting in my way.......How very dare it !! 😂
I decided to paint a room upstairs this week but didn't think about the time it would take me to finish it 🙄 I keep forgetting that I'm no longer a spring chicken and getting slower and slower at doing things.
I too don't like the bad language on TV, nor when walking in town 😟 I don't understand why people have to speak that way. I love old movies of the 40's/50's. The Ghost of St Michael's with Will Hay was on the other night, good old humour and no swearing in sight. I'm watching The Staircase at present, seems it's a true story but I don't know whether it was murder or an accident. I'll have to wait till the end to find out though as I shall not g00gle the outcome before it finishes.
Polly I've only just read your post today and I'm so sorry that you're still poorly and in pain. Is it just resting and gentle exercise that you need to do ? I admit I had to google rotator cuff tear because I thought it would be near the wrist, I'm such a dullard ! 
Thank you for asking about Mr Fix It, he's ok and as good as can be expected and he's not going anywhere without a fight ( anyway I won't let him go just yet as he's too useful around the house 😉 )  We have the sun back here today too but for how long I don't know, the weather seems very unpredictable lately.
Anyway I shall send you very heavy duty healing vibes 😁 All my love Amy/ nan xx 
Take care all
nan