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    York with a Touch of Chocolate

    Among other items of note, York is known for chocolate. And of course, Lancaster is not too far away with quite a different reputation. And over here, across the pond, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania there is the town of Lancaster with an interesting reputation, and not too far away is the...
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    Husbands

    Check this movie out! It's called "Husbands"! It was made back in the 60's and (get this!) was about three men who shed their responsibilities and move from New York to London. Stars Peter Falk and two other men. Sound familiar???
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    The Spirit of LOTSW Lives in Nebraska USA

    A man was pulled over by the police, on a slow news day, for giving his pet steer a ride in the front passenger seat in his modified Crown Vic car. Apparently the steer enjoys it. He modified his Crown Vic to make sure that his steer was comfortable.
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    Chips that say it all

    The other day I bought a bag of (American) chips that were named "Late July." As I munched away, it occurred to me that these chips have the LOTSW vibe. What is better as summer wine than a late July?
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    Art Object: Magnetic Board on a White Box

    I have a lovely art object in my kitchen. It is a magnetic board on a white box. The white box smells faintly of bleach and used to hold cold and frozen food, but it is now content to be just a white box with a magnetic board on the front. The white box doctor came and operated but the operation...
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    A Snippet of Pigeon and Post

    So I tuned in to LOTSW approximately at the halfway mark and it was Pigeon and Post when they were trying to sneak the pigeon into the room in the B&B. I was so confused as PBS never runs the specials. Then having been ejected from the B&B, they woke up on the beach. Then suddenly it was all...
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    An Interesting Book

    I recently finished reading a book called "Bryant & May: Oranges and Lemons: a Peculiar Crimes Unit mystery by Christopher Fowler. It is set in London and very cleverly incorporates the children's rhyme, "Oranges and Lemons" into the plot.
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    Cooking by Radio

    WETA UK has been running MovieTone UK features that date from the late '40's to early '50's. There was one that featured a new way of cooking by (as they said) using radio waves. This was a demonstration of new way of cooking food at a lunch counter. They took previously prepared food [on a...
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    Don't Ask

    Recently, I get to watch LOTSW with this constantly flashing colored line at the top. Nobody at the cable company seems to have noticed. Also happens with other BritWit like Open All Hours, but not other British shows like Midsomer Murders.
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    Spores

    In Spores, filmed in 2004, Lionel, a very depressed man, says [I'm paraphrasing] Spores!! They're all over!! They'll get into your lungs! And this is one of the episodes where reality comes crashing into a gentle comedy.
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    That Brown Teapot

    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.
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    She Will Be Missed

    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...
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    CATS

    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.
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    Reader's Digest Queen's English Word Power

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

    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...
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    Midsomer Murders

    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...
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    Yes, Minister

    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...
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    The Giraffe Crisis

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

    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.
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    Elegy for Fallen Wellies

    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...
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