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  1. Marianna

    The Snowdropper (1977) with Peter Sallis

    I doubt that Ohio winters were much different from south central NY. You want different, you need to head up into the Adirondacks.
  2. Marianna

    Did I Imagine It, Or Was This Tune Quoted In An Early Episode?

    That was something else, played very badly.
  3. Marianna

    The Snowdropper (1977) with Peter Sallis

    Oh, you're so young, and probably urban! When I was growing up on a farm in south central upstate New York from 1944-1965, laundry was always hung out unless it was raining stair rods. In winter it "freeze-dried", and required some force to fold it to fit in the laundry basket. Always washed and...
  4. Marianna

    Did I Imagine It, Or Was This Tune Quoted In An Early Episode?

    It sounds like background music for Seymour and his 3-wheeler, but for some reason I had connected it with The Northern Flying Circus. I scanned through that episode last night, but didn't hear even a short quote from the song.
  5. Marianna

    Yorkshire 25

    Congratulations on your success! I can exercise but very cautiously, as I walk a razor-edge between adding strength to the muscles that rhabdo didn't destroy and triggering another rhabdo flare-up with its attendant muscle destruction and associated kidney damage. Added to that is my age - 81 -...
  6. Marianna

    Yorkshire 25

    Can recommend everything that the Cap listed. Been there, done that, would enjoy a revisit. Love Whitby, partly because I like the HF house just outside town. Could spend another several days poking around and photographing the Abbey ruins. The church is worth an extensive visit, too. Seem to...
  7. Marianna

    Alan J Bell book

    Have you checked Abe Books? Look for a UK seller to reduce the shipping cost to your home. Brit Books, in Milton Keynes, lists one used copy available as of this morning. The price seemed reasonable for a book that's becoming somewhat rare.
  8. Marianna

    Keep Cool

    It depends on the humidity.
  9. Marianna

    Keep Cool

    Stay away from my territory! The New York State Department of Health issued a warning this morning about extreme heat. I've stayed inside with the air handler fans running continuously and with the A/C set at 77 F. Probably used all of the electricity generated by my solar panels, and hoping...
  10. Marianna

    Had to Smile

    Had the plastic wrap been added along way due to damage to the original packaging? Or were the original labels on the outside of the plastic, indicating that the package left the warehouse like that? I use housecleaning products designed to be reconstituted just before use, so they come in...
  11. Marianna

    Gentle Comedies

    I'm probably in the minority, but I prefer Still Open ... . Leroy's character is much more age-appropriate for a young man than Granville's was at the same age. The whole thing is believable. The first series was just silly.
  12. Marianna

    My Castle. My Kingdom

    Are you planning to bring a suitably expensive castle-warming gift?
  13. Marianna

    Live Aid

    Sting - 73 years old and still singing, despite all the abuse his voice must have suffered from performing rock music. In 2009, he released the album, If On a Winter's Night. Quieter music with lute accompaniment, among other instruments. You could hear the damage, but the underlying vocal...
  14. Marianna

    Coal Mining Museum

    Has anyone visited here? https://www.ncm.org.uk/ and gone on an underground tour? I've never taken a tour down a coal mine, although I have been down a salt mine, the Salzbergwerk just outside Berchtesgaden. Bought a small container of salt and brought it home for my sister. The idea of an...
  15. Marianna

    My Castle. My Kingdom

    Conwy! I took the guided tour of the castle one of the several times I visited the town. This was back when HF Holidays still had a country house hotel there. HF eventually sold that hotel because most of their clients are walkers, and it took too long to travel to and from Snowdonia each day.
  16. Marianna

    Church bells by Sids.

    I love the sound of the bells. One of the many times that I stayed in Huddersfield, I was crossing a street just below the parish church when a bell rehearsal began. Fortunately, I had reached the pedestrian island, as the sound stopped me in my tracks.
  17. Marianna

    The Infamous Metal Detector Question.....

    The Newcastle City Guide's walks sound wonderful!
  18. Marianna

    The Infamous Metal Detector Question.....

    Thanks, @captain clutterbuck. I had read the report in my BBC news feed, but couldn't remember the details. If I ever redevelop enough strength to travel, I'll need to add Newcastle upon Tyne to my itinerary. I sounds like an interesting city. Usually I and one of my friends, traveling...
  19. Marianna

    Gentle Comedies

    Even street paving had to be "corrected" by rolling out a cobblestone effect over the blacktop and scattering some manure-effect over it. I read somewhere that the folks in charge of dressing the locations had warned everyone that they could think of about the changes, but they forgot about the...
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