Greetings all,
I'm another noob here. Had a helluva time getting registered but with Terry's help, I'm finally here. I'd actually signed up to another lotsw forum and one member there mentioned this forum so I came to take a look. I love the photos and location chats! It's been a bit of an obsession of mine, while watching Summer Wine, to try finding the scene locations on Google maps. Now I see that I'm not the only one (and not even the most obsessive either!
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I think I was quite lucky in that I grew up in southern Ontario (Canada), where we could get the American PBS and we had our own Global TV (a local network) and TVOntario (a public station supported by the provincial government). So I was able to watch lots of good British television (On The Buses, Are You Being Served?, Dick Emery, etc. And of course, Last Of The Summer Wine).
Fell in love with Summer Wine instantly! Maybe in a way, it brought back memories. As a kid, I and two other friends were always wandering off around town and the surrounding hillside after school and on weekends, sometimes getting into odd scrapes, sometimes just sitting on a hill overlooking the town reflecting on life... sound familiar? So I think I really identified with Norm & Compo & Foggy.
Well, now I'm a little older (43 to be exact) and I'm making my living as an English teacher in the Czech Republic. So now I get my lotsw fix mostly through YouTube.
Lastly, I've decided that this summer should be the time of my Summer Wine pilgrimage, so I'm planning a trip to Yorkshire, probably in July. Whew. Ok, that's enough from me.
I'm another noob here. Had a helluva time getting registered but with Terry's help, I'm finally here. I'd actually signed up to another lotsw forum and one member there mentioned this forum so I came to take a look. I love the photos and location chats! It's been a bit of an obsession of mine, while watching Summer Wine, to try finding the scene locations on Google maps. Now I see that I'm not the only one (and not even the most obsessive either!
)I think I was quite lucky in that I grew up in southern Ontario (Canada), where we could get the American PBS and we had our own Global TV (a local network) and TVOntario (a public station supported by the provincial government). So I was able to watch lots of good British television (On The Buses, Are You Being Served?, Dick Emery, etc. And of course, Last Of The Summer Wine).
Fell in love with Summer Wine instantly! Maybe in a way, it brought back memories. As a kid, I and two other friends were always wandering off around town and the surrounding hillside after school and on weekends, sometimes getting into odd scrapes, sometimes just sitting on a hill overlooking the town reflecting on life... sound familiar? So I think I really identified with Norm & Compo & Foggy.
Well, now I'm a little older (43 to be exact) and I'm making my living as an English teacher in the Czech Republic. So now I get my lotsw fix mostly through YouTube.
Lastly, I've decided that this summer should be the time of my Summer Wine pilgrimage, so I'm planning a trip to Yorkshire, probably in July. Whew. Ok, that's enough from me.
