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    If the Dads Army movie is a success?

    Item in Daily Mail,a trailer for the new movie was shown and it stated " 1944 England has its back to the wall " evidently many people booed when this was said so look out for errors and a new thread listing them!
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    What's Santa Brought for Nora Then?

    The best present for Nora would be a new broom as she uses a broom more than anything else and it should be a wide one so as to clout Compo and Clegg!!!!
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    What's Santa Brought for Nora Then?

    Just like Del Boy in Peckham market sets up suitcase and sells from it and Albert looks out for the police or market inspector then leg it fast !
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    Extra Extra

    Agree not an episode I enjoyed and I was not allowed to watch it anyway as someone else wanted to watch a recorded show ,but to many other non people in it and a very thin story line .Never understood why it was written did the beeb want a Hollywood star like they often do and we end up with...
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    An underrated trio in Summer Wine

    Edie was a caring person in her own way didn't she get him a pay rise once and Glenda is a person I wouldn't want to cross her and as for my favourite lady Nora no way! Barry would have been embarrassed on some of Foggys adventures and would have been in the way but he did get lumbered a great...
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    Just Dreaming

    I am enjoying retirement U3A provides a lot to do,monthly meeting weekly and monthly groups great people and very interesting trips out regularily ,also my model railway and my RNLI work no time for work.Most of our friends are active and when we go on a Warners break you meet some amazing...
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    Small tune on a penny whasail

    Just watched this episode and think it was a masterpiece comment on Christmas ,and the finale is a brilliant ending Compo looks very happy as do the children,also Wally and Sid having to put up withrelations brought back many memories.
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    I Didn't Know You Cared revisited

    Liked Uncle Mort and his shed tea with condensed milk yuk but his character was fantanstic, also when it was said that the wife painted the outhouse and received a power drill for Christmas! They don't make tv like this anymore shame
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    Happy Birthday Howard

    Forgot the singing gnome it was bigger than him.
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    Happy Birthday Howard

    Perhaps he had a new cap from Marina and a new lead from Pearl.
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    Winsor Davis & LOTSW

    It might of ran for eleven seasons but I still didn't like it the storylines were very thin and ITV in those days had a load of rubbish on most nights and bad shows ran as there was nothing else to show.At least now they have a good spread of shows that are well produced and worth watching note...
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    Over Speculating the Latter Years of Summer Wine

    Gold is okay I also watch on Yesterday its a bit hit and miss on there but not bothered about Hobbo he is an idiot and I felt that the storylines were getting a bit thin,only problem I have is SWMBO gets annoyed when the series comes on and causes problems still when shes out I can watch in peace1
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    Winsor Davis & LOTSW

    Glad he did not come into the show didn't like him very much he did an antique dealer comedy and was vey poor to much shouting would have ruined the show.
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    The lads home FC team?

    One of my aunts used to a Frankie Lane impression at Christmas when she had drunk a few port and lemons complete with all the actions always thought she was loopy!
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    The lads home FC team?

    Football and the team you support is something that happens at a very early age,when I was at secondary school in the fifties my class all supported Spurs the other class in my year supported Arsenal and during the season on Mondays it was war in the playground. But we all had a go at A poor...
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    The lads home FC team?

    Agree about people supporting teams not local to them a colleague supported Partic Thistle because he liked their colours ,me I am a lifelong Spurs fan having grown up in Nth London and having an uncle who was chairman of the supporters club I had no choice !
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    Pencil drwing of the boys

    It must have been ten or so years ago but the shop was adjacent to the market and was a bookstore on two levels sorry cant be more specific but the memory is not so good now feel a bit like Clegg some days ,shut the door and have a cup of tea.We went on an easter weekend and it was horrible it...
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    Eli and His Glasses

    I felt like Eli today as I came out of our U3A meeting one of my lenses fell out of my glasses and I was blundering around but a local opticians saved the day ,got an eye test Friday so that's going to be expensive.
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    Pencil drwing of the boys

    Yes it is one with Compo leaning on Foggy it captures the three so well .
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    Pencil drwing of the boys

    Quite a while ago when on holiday in York I found a shop selling a pencil drawing of Compo,Clegg and Foggy in the week that Brian Wild passed away its a brilliant picture and I place it on the wall just beside the door into the kitchen so I can say hello as I pass.Some of our friends think I am...
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