Kat & Alfie: Redwater series finished yesterday. It hasn't done that well in the ratings partially due to the timing competing with Emmerdale, partially because being shown immediately after Eastenders would make people assume that it's just a spin off, and that would have been strengthened by calling it Kat & Alfie: Redwater. The better timing of it would have been on a sunday evening and the BBC should have done what they did in Ireland and just call it Redwater. Kat & Alfie hardly feature in episodes 2 to 5.

It's a decent noirish drama and Fionnula Flanagan is the standout. The ending is such that anyone who saw the series throughout will be wanting a second series.

All 6 episodes are available in iplayer for the next 29 days.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programme...gr86/episodes/player

El Loro posted:

Yogi, Virgin Media said it was a low risk and if you hadn't been notified by them yours was probablu OK, but changing the passphrase was a good idea anyway

 That's reassuring, El. 

Just the same, I'm glad I've changed the passwords.

El Loro posted:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/s...ing-spinning-gorilla

 Love it!

Good morning quick hello while I can, I have friends from the south here for the weekend and we're about to walk 32 miles! Crazy. 

Have a lovely day all, see you after  

Good morning everyone

Cloudy here and at present not as breezy as yesterday.

Got yet another client meeting this morning - she works away Mondays to Fridays.

Summer, I hope you have a good time with your friends this weekend. 32 miles is a marathon plus. For a walk like that everyone needs to walk at a pace which suits everyone in the group and you need to take plenty of water with you to keep hydrated. That's from my own experience when I did a similar length walk with a friend. I'm a fairly quick walker but his natural speed was faster so I was walking faster than normal. All was well but some 5 miles from the end I developed the worst cramp I've ever had in one leg. that was as a result of walking too quickly and being deydrated.

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone, grey and cloudy here this morning.  I hope your client meeting goes well EL.  Enjoy your walk Summer, I hope the weather is good for you.

Enjoy your day everyone

Thanks Squiggle Welcome back to the world of electricity, I hope the power cut didn't cause you big problems

I hope Yogi is OK - she hasn't been on since yesterday afternoon - I hope my advice on changing her superhub passwords didn't cause problems. It shouldn't have. I did find yesterday that there was a temporary blip on my internet connection. Although after a short while all the lights came back on my superhub there was still no connection. So I took the power cable out, waited a minute before putting the power cable back in. Took a minute of so for the bottim 3 lights to come on. Then I opened my email browser (though internet connection would have been OK), the top two lights came back and my connection had been restored. It wouldn't surprise me if the blip had been caused by Virgin seeing whose superhubs needed the password changed so I think all users could have had the same.

If Yogi remains absent and any of you have any way to contact her other than internet, you may want to try to get in touch with her about this.

I'm here, El! 

Sorry to have caused concern.

I didn't sleep well on Thursday night and was really tired last night.

As I knew BB wasn't on until 10.30pm, I decided to have an early night and didn't sign into the forum.

Weather has been a mix of sunshine and showers.

Summer, I hope you enjoy your very long walk, and take El's advice.

Glad our power is on again, Squiggle.

Hope the meeting goes well, El.

Yogi, thanks a lot and I hope you had a better night's sleep last night

You'll remember I had a query about a song in Doctors and that I was asking the BBC about it. I've heard back from one of their people in their enquiries team who said:

"It's great that you have been so precise as it really helped me locate the music quickly. I also loved it - so thanks for introducing it to me.

You heard an extract from Coinleach Glas An Ghomhair by Clannad.

You should be able to find more info online or from a good high street store.

Happy listening!"

It's actually "'Coinleach Ghlas an Fhómhair'" originally on their Clannad 2 album and it is Moya Brennan singing:

Article with a couple of clips on my local news website:
http://www.gloucestershirelive...-school-choir-133406

It's to to with a BBC DIY SOS episode shot this week for a recently paralysed man from Avening (on the way between Stroud and Tetbury) whose house they've been doing. The clips are mainly the local primary school choir singing their thanks to the crew to the tune of what shall we do with the drunken sailor.

El Loro posted:

Yogi, thanks a lot and I hope you had a better night's sleep last night

Thanks, I slept well 

El Loro posted:

You'll remember I had a query about a song in Doctors and that I was asking the BBC about it. I've heard back from one of their people in their enquiries team who said:

"It's great that you have been so precise as it really helped me locate the music quickly. I also loved it - so thanks for introducing it to me.

 

You heard an extract from Coinleach Glas An Ghomhair by Clannad.

 

You should be able to find more info online or from a good high street store.

 

Happy listening!"

What a nice reply, El.

Yogi, that's why I posted the reply as it was surprsingly nice (the email back from the BBC doesn't have the facility for me to be able to thank the man who replied)

A little bit of film history. When The Graduate was first released at the beginning of 1968 it got an X certificate though at that time you needed to be 16 or older to get in to see an X.

Then on 1 July 1970 the certificates changed to bring in AA which was 14 or older and the X became 18 or older.

The very first film to be reclassified from and X to AA was The Graduate. In due course the AA was replaced with the 15 (1 November 1985) and The Graduate remained at 15.

Until the 9th of this month when it's been reclassified as a 12A (as being reissued for a cinema release).

Whether one likes the film or not, it is one of the key films in the history of American films as it, more than any other I can think of, marks the change from old Hollywood to new Hollywood - it's known that the director had wanted Doris Day to play the part of Mrs Robinson but as one would expect she refused.

A delightful BBC clip from the tennis at Queen's Club:

El Loro posted:

A delightful BBC clip from the tennis at Queen's Club:

What a lovey clip - I remember watching it at the time.

I liked to watch Goran play tennis.

Yogi, and of course there's one of the greatest of all Wimbledon finals, the 2001 one where he, as a wildcard at the age of 30 and had never been champion there, but he got to the final against Pat Rafter and here's the highlights of that:

El Loro posted:

Yogi, and of course there's one of the greatest of all Wimbledon finals, the 2001 one where he, as a wildcard at the age of 30 and had never been champion there, but he got to the final against Pat Rafter and here's the highlights of that:

That was a great final - and hardly a grunt to be heard.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Ros.

I'll leave a hug in case there are any night owls

night yogiand summer if you pop in -hope your walk went well

Good morning everyone

Rather cloudy here and some light rain is likely. Tomorrow's forecast is much the same but then Tuesday to Friday wet.

Yogi, I don't like tennis players grunting as much as some of them do  - Maria Sharapova can go over 100 decibels

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone.

Weather is cool and breezy  - it was pretty windy yesterday.

El, I agree about tennis players grunting. I find it off-putting. 

I hope Summer isn't aching too much after her long walk.

Have a good day everyone.

Yogi, I agree, I hope Summer isn't aching after her marathon walk

Good morning everyone, yes it was quite a long day without electricity.  You just don't realise how much we depend upon it nowadays.  I'd brought down my book that usually I just read at night and that helped but it did make life difficult and yes it seemed a very long day.

I think grunting in tennis was a very big contributing factor in why I gave up watching Wimbledon.

Enjoy your day everyone

Good afternoon sunny here, absolutely gorgeous  

my friends have now gone and I've had just enough time turn the house around for my sisters arrival!  She's in the country for a week and this is the first time she's come to Durham, I'll be back to catch up properly tonight

the walk went really well I'm tired & stiff but feeling good. We had lots of fluids & I use dissolvable electrolyte tablets to help prevent cramp too  

Squiggle, and the 23 June is almost the longest day of the year. I hope you don't have any further days without electricity

It's Monica Seles and Jimmy Connors who are regarded as the players who started the grunting in tennis in the women's and men's games repectively.

Summer, I'm glad you had a great walk and aren't too exhausted. I hope you have a lovely time with your sister

BBC Radio 5  - choose your 3 favourite moments from Wimbledon from a short list of 10 - results announced in a programme on Wednesday evening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40247804
The 10 are listed in date order.

Yogi, and it's just possible that a match mentioned today is in that list

El Loro posted:

BBC Radio 5  - choose your 3 favourite moments from Wimbledon from a short list of 10 - results announced in a programme on Wednesday evening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/40247804
The 10 are listed in date order.

 

Yogi, and it's just possible that a match mentioned today is in that list

 I've voted, El.

Summer, I'm glad you're not too sore after your long walk. Hope you have a lovely time with your sister.

Squiggle, I think we all tend to take electricity for granted...until we don't have it. 

I hope yours doesn't go off again, any time soon 

Evening thank you all I hope you've all had a lovely day 

Oooh- Wimbledon I love it! 

~Sweet Summer~ posted:

Evening thank you all I hope you've all had a lovely day 

 Did you have a nice natter with your sis?

Well that was a lively BB - for all the wrong reasons.

Goodnight and sweet dreams, Summer, Velvet and Ros.

Blimey! What an eventful episode, I'm looking forward to seeing what else follows tomorrow 

yes I did thank you yogi, it was nice to see her and have a little catch up 

sweet dreams  

night yogi summer velvet

Good morning everyone

Fair weather here today though not so good for the next few days.

For those who are fanatical about Wimbledon, the qualifying rounds start today until Thursday. Although they won't get shown on the main BBC channels, they are being shown on their red button channels and online.

Order of play:
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB.../schedule/index.html
(by the way the Benjamin Becker on that schedule today is not related to Boris though Boris is his current coach)

I hope everyone has a good day

Good morning everyone 

ATM, the sun is shining so I might get the herb garden weeded.

El, I always liked Boris as a tennis player. His 1985 Wimbledon win was my No1 choice in that favourite Wimbledon moment poll yesterday.  Andy and Goran's wins were my other choices.

Have a good day, Buddies.

Yogi, one of my favourite finals wasn't on that list, the 1997 women's final where Martina Hingis at the age of 16 beat the much more experienced Jana Novotná. She's still playing though just in the doubles where she's one of the top players.

BBC clip of a disabled rook and a woman from Cheltenham who lets him live in their house:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/u...causes-havoc-at-home