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In Getting on Sidney's Wire, they get served tea in Nora's living room which is served in a brown teapot. Not remarkable except that I have that exact same teapot. It also occasionally pops up in other scenes.

Rhea Feikin is probably not a name that will be recognized, but here in the US, she has been with Maryland Public Television (MPT) for 4 decades and she has recently announced her retirement. Of course the most notable thing is that they have been running LOTSW like forever, every afternoon. So...

Well, they're both getting up in years and it's catching up with them. The litter box, shall we say, (ah hem) has just become less of a destination. The word "finicky" has entered their vocabulary and food is often left untouched. We have the vet on speed dial. But still they're great cats.

Well, RD has come up with a test of how well Americans know British English. So does anyone use DOG'S BREAKFAST? CACK-HANDED?

Maryland Public Television (MPT) has faithfully run Last of the Summer Wine for low these many years. First it was on the Saturday night line-up of Brit Wit and then eventually migrated to a daily line-up of the same Brit Wit called "Afternoon Tea." So the threesome in their various escapades...

Well, finally PBS is catching up --sort of. They recently ran the last of the Tom Barnaby episodes and now are onto the first of the Neil Dudgeon episodes with Cousin Barnaby. Gulp. Shall miss John Nettles but as he said, they kept him in the harness LONG after real homicide detectives usually...

The premise of this show couldn't be further from LOTSW -- but wait a minute, there are some similarities. The minister, James Hacker, like Foggy. is the head guy and he is generally a clueless government stiff. Sir Humphrey Appleby is like Cleggy in that he expresses great wisdom. And Bernard...

Watching a report on the TV concerning giraffes. Their total number in Africa has plummeted due to poaching and loss of habitat. Very concerning.

Speaking of cricket, did you hear the one about the lady who kept on hearing a cricket in her house and she even named it. Her daughter visited and had to tell her that her that it wasn't a cricket, the batteries in her smoke detector were low.

Well, here in the States on Maryland Public Television (MPT), they recently aired this episode. It's been 17 years yet it's still hard to watch. It's amazing that the cast and crew were actually able to get through the filming of this episode. And then there was Roy Clarke's wonderful script...

After getting an estimate for a new roof, I was chatting with our esteemed estimator and he asked what TV shows we liked to watch. And I hemmed and hawed and mentioned that the show I liked to watch was off the air for a number of years, approximately 30 years run, etc.. etc. and then I finally...

They are inside the Sid's Cafe having some sort of discussion and then they go outside where they encounter Smiler washing the window under Ivy's close supervision. I wasn't really paying attention but wouldn't they have seen Smiler from inside the Cafe? Wouldn't they have seen Smiler from...

On US TV, there's a long running TV show with, you guessed it, really funny home videos. And last night there was a real humdinger!! It showed two boys on bicycles going at each other with toy swords. They weren't wearing armor, but does this sound familiar?

In Wild Blue Yonder, Foggy and Compo have that tree climbing contest and I took a long look at those trees and it's fairly obvious that they were specifically planted all the way up and down that road to form a lovely boulevard effect. Where is this? Was it done to form a lovely entrance effect...

Here in the US, the Barnum and Bailey Circus is making it's very last round. The elephants are already gone, llamas, donkeys, pigs, and dogs a poor substitute. But there were still lions and tigers, no bears, of course. Clowns and trapeze artists. May it rest in peace. Another old venerable...

On the above named episode of Midsomer Murders, there was Trevor Peacock (Vicar of Dibley) , Frank Middlemass (As Time Goes By), and June Whitfield. Trevor, a talented musician, played the piano and June sang. Wonderful, wonderful.

The ladies wore such interesting hats. Nora's hats really took the cake. Where do you suppose that they found and/or made those hats. Also Roz's pink creations were also real winners.

So where do they come up with the decorations, paintings, stuff on the mantles, and other odd bits for all of the rooms such as Pearl's living room, Cleggy's living room (both houses), etc.? During one scene, I was meditating on the candlesticks on Cleggy's mantelpiece and how I grew up looking...

WETA UK is the Washington DC channel that runs exclusively British programming including lots of AYBS, KUA, and As Time Goes By. Now they've included W1A, a program about (I hope) fictional behind-the-scenes happening at the BBC with Hugh Bonneville; A Place to Call Home, an Australian...

Well, one of my cats has apparently decided that he likes to be alone and so he independently opens the linen closet door and goes in there to take a nap. The door is a folding-type door and I have yet to catch him opening it. He also likes to chase his tail especially when he is in his cat tree.