Hello all, and thank you for having me. As a non-member I have been lurking here an embarrassing length of time. I have always been reticent of computer communities and social media. I’m not sure if it’s still called social anxiety when it extends to interacting with one’s fellow beings on a computer, but I will try to do my best. I have come to see that the members here are a bit like a family.
I first watched Last of the Summer Wine in 2000. The episode was Adopted by a Stray. The show was pure magic. The following week brought me Defeat of the Stoneworm and I was hooked for life. American distribution is a capricious thing and I have augmented my viewing with YouTube and other sources, but I confess there are many episodes, mostly in the final years, that I have not yet seen. I was not greatly motivated by the addition of Hobo to search them out. My preference is for the early years when there was more dialogue and less slapstick, but I love it all. Clegg is my favorite character, and Foggy my favorite third man.
As for myself, at 54 (later this year) I may be among the younger members, just boarding the train so to speak carrying me to my own summer wine years. I am impelled forward on this journey by caring for my mother (in her 70’s) next door, a grown daughter (near 30) at home, and trying to maintain a property of 20 acres of trees and sandy Texas soil despite ants, gophers, snakes and encroaching arthritis. There are also with me, two small dogs, Marty and Charlie, (who I can best describe their personalities as Sir George Uproar and Fanny from The Ghosts of Motley Hall.) Sometimes it feels like a run-away train, especially these days when it seems the whole world has gone mad. Last of the Summer Wine is the perfect comforting escape.
I grew up with Masterpiece Theatre, British Comedies on PBS have always been a part of my life. I remember as a child choosing The Jewel in the Crown over The Wonderful World of Disney. I am of Scottish (Campbell), Irish (McNeece), and Welsh (Morgan) descent, perhaps I’ve just been looking for a bit of home.
Thank you all again
Eithne
I first watched Last of the Summer Wine in 2000. The episode was Adopted by a Stray. The show was pure magic. The following week brought me Defeat of the Stoneworm and I was hooked for life. American distribution is a capricious thing and I have augmented my viewing with YouTube and other sources, but I confess there are many episodes, mostly in the final years, that I have not yet seen. I was not greatly motivated by the addition of Hobo to search them out. My preference is for the early years when there was more dialogue and less slapstick, but I love it all. Clegg is my favorite character, and Foggy my favorite third man.
As for myself, at 54 (later this year) I may be among the younger members, just boarding the train so to speak carrying me to my own summer wine years. I am impelled forward on this journey by caring for my mother (in her 70’s) next door, a grown daughter (near 30) at home, and trying to maintain a property of 20 acres of trees and sandy Texas soil despite ants, gophers, snakes and encroaching arthritis. There are also with me, two small dogs, Marty and Charlie, (who I can best describe their personalities as Sir George Uproar and Fanny from The Ghosts of Motley Hall.) Sometimes it feels like a run-away train, especially these days when it seems the whole world has gone mad. Last of the Summer Wine is the perfect comforting escape.
I grew up with Masterpiece Theatre, British Comedies on PBS have always been a part of my life. I remember as a child choosing The Jewel in the Crown over The Wonderful World of Disney. I am of Scottish (Campbell), Irish (McNeece), and Welsh (Morgan) descent, perhaps I’ve just been looking for a bit of home.
Thank you all again
Eithne