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Very mild, although windy and stormy at times where I am in the UK. Considering we are going into January the weather's not too bad. Certainly not as bad as the 6 month Arctic blast the fear-mongers in the press were predicting and hoping for back in November.

I don't see any point in complaining. The great thing about technology today is that you can make up your own Christmas viewing, or anytime viewing, simply by going online. I'm watching stuff off Youtube I've never seen. Some I have, but it was years ago so I've forgotten. Traditional watching...

Yorkshire Tea is my favorite. However, if I feel like saving money I buy Tesco's value range T-bags, 27p for 80. You would have thought that they would be horrible for that price and most value teas are awful, but I have to say that the quality is excellent, the only name brand that beats them...

Ah, Yorkshire Tea, the best Assam, East Africa and Sri Lanka can provide. It is great tea. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWMS6qV0mzI

I think its a mistake to believe that they just wanted to aim at a younger audience. Some find it difficult to accept that all good things come to an end and eventually all good things don't necessarily stay as good as before. I mean, shock, horror, what if the BBC actually cancelled LOTSW...

Without David Jason it doesn't get made. Jason in his own way has become as big a name as Ronnie Barker. If you remake LOTSW it would be done, one assumes, with the final trio. They don't have the weight of what went before. The big names of LOTSW have, sadly, largely passed on.

I'm not suggesting it was written specifically because he was unwell, clearly he was and that may well have been coincidence, but the episode does put the character of Compo in a different light from what anyone had known from the early years. There's nothing wrong in making that episode...

It's a comedy, so one could say that there will be some artistic licence as time goes by. Realistic yes, but not totally. The most obvious one is Compo's war record. In the early series he is presented as having a war record of avoidance that was in keeping with the character, in one episode he...

When he first appears in How Errol Flynn Discovered the Secret Scar of Nora Batty, which I watched yesterday, he does mention that he took early retirement. At some point in a later episode I think someone mentions he was made redundant from a local factory. Clifford was a young looking 61 when...

I may be wrong, but I'm sure I heard in one episode something about Billy having been made redundant? Can't remember the name of the episode.

Blimey, that's expensive for a charity shop.

Barry was a difficult one because he was white collar and that is why I think Clarke surrounded him with his own group of professional friends that at times were almost an alternative trio. He's wasn't like the traditional trio as he didn't fit in as the third man bossy, authority figure, the...

Not necessarily one liners as each has a good build up to the punch line, but these two get me every time. There's the one where the trio are in a barn and Compo is talking about how well someone he once knew was now doing. He ends it with "he's got all his money tucked away in a Eunuchs...

Barry was a difficult one for a trio because he did have a full time job at the Building society so where would he get the time to go off wandering? They got around it with Entwistle although he ran his own business, but for me the trio had always been essentially unemployed or forced into early...

There was always going to be a tricky period after the death of Bill Owen, it was obvious you could not replace Compo. Tom as his son didn't really fit because he was far younger than Truly and Clegg, the audience didn't really take to that idea. Perhaps because of Bill Owen's death, the series...

I think that you would expect someone to at least take their wallet and money with them regardless of where they are, or not take it at all, especially if the plan was to go swimming, they would leave it at home. Clothes they might put in a bag and hide it in a bush or tree out of the way and...

Foggy did it a few times over the years. It was then copied by Hobbo doing his Foggy impression in the final episode hitting Trevor Bannister.

Yes, that was Liz Smith, later of The Vicar of Dibley amongst others. One of the few times we see Compo in a suit trying to impress and then thinking better of it. She wants security and Compo says he's just bought her a plate of mushy peas, what more does she want?

Didn't Compo briefly join Nora under the bed, much to her shock?

Pretty good gritty police drama, but quite violent at times although mostly fist fights. Don't remember guns being used that often. Also has Dennis Waterman before Minder fame in it. Morse is mild by comparison. Police slang - Sweeny Todd - Flying Squad. Certainly one of the most popular...