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Is he the one who used to say 'Right Monkey'

It's not you Rhi, it's them

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I think my husband watched it, but I never got into it.

The story lines did flag a bit sometimes, but then you would get a gem like 'The Crowcroft Challenge', and things got better.

Thank you Pauline. I signed up to be notified when this is available. I am changing my address, but I signed anyway. Hopefully if enough of us do this it will happen.

Probably something to do with 'health and safety'!!

I think I remember him!

I found a piece about this show in an old book. It was written by Eric Sykes and Sid Colin. Everyone who was anyone was in it at some point, a bit like SW. Some of the more notable names were, Hattie Jacques, Julie Andrews, Ronald Chesney, Alfred Marks, Gilbert Harding! Jack Train, Bernard...

I am the same Rhi. Scones need very little handling so they turn out fine, but by the time I have finished with the pastry it really is awful. I mentioned in another thread, the New Zealand cook, Nici Wickes. She says that the pastry that you can buy in the freezer shop is so good, why bother to...

Kindred spirits again.

I make a good scone, 'though I say it myself as shouldn't'. My pastry is like cardboard. Do you say scone to rhyme with 'stone' or with 'Ron'? I use the flat Ron.

We watch most of the 'CSI' type shows. NCIS is my favorite. Without a Trace, Bones, Cold Case, are also some that we watch. We do watch all of the British ones as well.

I am a southerner in as far as having been born down here and having lived within a mile of my birth place all of my life, Susan, but my heart is in Jarrow.