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Ruth Gregory Posts: 8072 Joined: 25th Jul 2007 Location: USA | quotePosted at 03:20 on 11th June 2008 We used to go to the movies on Saturdays, too. Except we were going to see A Hard Day's Night, Help, Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Goldfinger. All the British stuff. Small world, isn't it? We had to pay for our candy though (sweets). My favorite was Snow Caps. |
L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:46 on 11th June 2008 We used to have Saturday morning pictures here as well when I was little, it cost 9d in old money (£sd) to sit in the balcony, but we never had sweets included in the price. I remember seeing Batman (black/white and he could fly lol) and one called the Thunder Riders, they lived underground and couldnt breathe our air when they surfaced..what a load of twaddle now thinking back lol but I thought it was great at the time. Ahhh those were the days...but I dont think i'd like to go back to them! |
Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 08:26 on 11th June 2008 You don't see many westerns these days, more's the pity. I used to enjoy 'The Virginian' and 'Bonanza' on the TV..as well as 'Z cars' and Softly Softly' of course. And do you remember 'Dixon of Dock Green'? Peter Byrne, who played Andy Crawford (and later, in fact much later, appeared as Ritas' boyfriend on Coronation Street) is a distant relation of mine apparently. |
Dennis White Posts: 33 Joined: 9th May 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 06:43 on 17th June 2008 Up until this past April, my thought of England consisted entirely of literary and cinematic images. Dickens, Stories about our Pilgrims, and our War of Independence, Shakespeare, 007, Tolkien, Lewis, The Beatles, Wallice and Grommit, Braveheart Monty Python ... and on and on... all my life I've been reading about England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland - legends, heros, villians, magic, Christian heritage, bloody wars, amazing romance, vicious cruelty, ancient customs and traditions. All that instilled in me a great desire to visit, to see the land that gave birth to my country, inspired our laws, informed our view of reality. So last April my wife Nadia and I finally fulfilled our dream of traveling to Paris and to England. When we arrived in London (on the Chunnel from Paris), we bee-lined it directly to Oxford, and the first person we talked to at any length was Ron Brind. So I immediately associated every one of my imaginative memories of England to that jovial, mischevious, inteligent and passionate man. Yes, Ron, you are England - Old and Young, dangerous and tepid, romantic and risque, formal and spontaneous, funny and serious, like an old friend and yet unpredictable. There's a lot about England that struck us as cozy - like an over-stuffed chair next to a fire, and much else that was dark and disturbing, like the clash of modern and ancient buldings, people dressed in tweed next to pierced, tatooed, electrified youth. There's a love for bold, new direction juxtaposed with very old, beloved tradition. Christian artifacts and churches intermingled with any and all other kinds of religions expressions, and a paletable athesim. In a word, there are no words to describe England. I much prefer being your firiend than your foe. I'd die for your freedom, but disdain your socialism. (I disdain our socialism too.) And the fact is, I want to go on believing in the England of my dreams - which isn't all that difficult, for we are allies still, and share in common more than we differ, both good and bad. Oh, and we (Nadia and I) really love your accents. That's one glaring weakness in a blog like this. Not much of an accent, though your choices of words and phrases do help! God save the Queen!
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| Dennis White Posts: 33 Joined: 9th May 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 07:00 on 17th June 2008 Very sorry for the many misspelled words. I'm using my television as a monitor, and don't have my glasses on, so I can't see what I've been writing. I know there are a lot of mistakes, so please forgive tne sloppyness... Dennis
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| Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:01 on 17th June 2008 Don't be shy, tell us who you are lol. |
| Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:03 on 17th June 2008 Ah, Dennis! Good morning! |
| L Posts: 5656 Joined: 10th Jun 2004 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:11 on 17th June 2008 Ah ha! it was Dennis! good morning, and good morning to you Andy as well (see I can be polite lol) |
Ray Stear Posts: 1930 Joined: 25th Apr 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:16 on 17th June 2008 Good Morning to Lyn and Andy. Lyn, Maria has served you a volley on the other 'My Equipment' thread. I want to see your return. Catch her on her back foot, that always works. Ray. |
| Andy Edwards Posts: 1900 Joined: 14th Mar 2008 Location: UK | quotePosted at 07:23 on 17th June 2008 I can understand where you're coming from Dennis, especially as you see England from the perspective of a tourist. I think the term for all the mish-mash in the UK is progress....high rise buildings next to 17th century churches and so on. I really hate to disappoint you but we're not 'English' and it isn't England anymore...we're just another European country trying to hang on to whatever we can of our past...good or bad. I giggled to myself when you said it was a dream of yours to visit, you built up this once great land of ours, then went to Paris first!!!!!! Could you not get a direct flight Dennis? Seriously though, every tourist seems to go to London and Oxford, and Ron would say that's a good idea. But for me, they're just two cities that don't even look much like England anymore. Both are full of restaurants from India, Italy, France, China, Greece, Turkey etc etc the list goes on. Where can you find a proper fish and chip shop in either of these multi racial, multi national cities? Why go to Paris, have croissants for breakfast in Oxford....sit outside with your latte and enjoy the air. If you were blindfolded on arrival at Paris and London you'd have a job knowing where you were...only the tour d'Eiffel or Arc de Triumphe would be a give away, as would Big Ben and the houses of Parliament. You want to see England Dennis? Come up north, see the old mills, the fabulous countryside, and have a proper fish and chip supper, haddock, caught fresh that day. You'll save yourself a packet too Dennis, because it's a damned sight cheaper up here, because it IS England, not toytown. And I'm saying this as someone who lived down south for 38 years, so I know the difference. Kindest regards, Andy. |
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