Non food related TV

[Pepper Pig]

Anyone admit to watching Rivals yet?

[Earthmaiden]

Nope, I'd have to pay extra. Any film I have seen of those books has been so different to my imagination - and the trailers I've seen for this are the same. Are you watching it?

[Pepper Pig]

Not yet. But it’s had great reviews and all my chums are raving about it.

[Busybee]

Anyone admit to watching Rivals yet?

Binge watched it. Worth it for the soundtrack alone. Loved every minute. It’s so OTT, great cast. Didn’t think Rupert Campbell Black looked as I imagined him, but he grows on you.

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[Busybee]

You get the impression that the cast had a whale if a time making it. Danny Dyer as Freddie is a revelation.

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[Stokey Sue]

You get the impression that the cast had a whale if a time making it. Danny Dyer as Freddie is a revelation.

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I’d watch it for Danny! But I don’t have Disney+

[Earthmaiden]

They are advertising Disney at £4.99 a month. I suppose IF it's possible to just subscribe for a month, it would be relatively cheap entertainment.

[Pepper Pig]

Yes. I subscribed for £1.99 for Shardlake for 3 months and actually it was useful when the kids were round. I have a Sky package so it was probably cheaper because of that.

[WWordsworth]

Anyone into Everyone Else Burns?

I'm finding series 2 better than the first one but I'm not sure the humour is of my preferred type. The occasional line does make me laugh out loud though.

[Cheezy_Jazzy]

Anyone admit to watching Rivals yet?

Yes! I've watched the first two episodes and have loved it so far. Hoping to get some more watched this weekend. I have the book so will have to go dig it out and re-read it. X

[Pepper Pig]

Danny Dyer is great in it isn’t he?

[Cheezy_Jazzy]

I didn't recognise him at first!

[Pepper Pig]

Finished it this morning. It’s terrific. I wouldn’t want to watch it with any of my children though.

Fabulous female cast too, especially Katherine Parkinson.

[halfateabag]

Did anyone else watch The Big Freeze of 1963 last night ? It took me back to some of my earliest memories as a 6 year old walking up a HUGE snow drift on the airfield at Kirton in Lindsey that went right up to the roof of the hanger. Parents were a tad worried in case I fell through at the top of the drift. A well put together programme.

[Earthmaiden]

Didn't notice it was on. Remember it well though. A bus stuck in a snowdrift in our village, Norfolk Broads frozen over with skaters and people with ice yachts enjoying themselves. Sledging. Being soooo cold!

[Suffs]

I remember it well … I was ten years old … our small village was totally cut off by deep drifts … Pa and the other farmers organised gangs of villagers with spades and shovels to dig through the drifts … it took nearly a week. Farmers didn’t have tractor-type diggers back in those days. Ma had a goat so she tried to make sure that as many families with small children got some milk if at all possible. It was before folk had home freezers so families had to live on what tinned and dried goods they had in their cupboards … and as the egg lorry couldn’t get through to collect the eggs from our hens they were distributed around the village too … if we’d been cut off for much longer the flock of hens might’ve been smaller too!!!
Outside pipes and taps were frozen solid so while pa was digging snowdrifts ma was carrying many many buckets of water from the house to the pigsties and henhouses … and then of course when the thaw came there were so many burst pipes to deal with … it was such a very difficult time.
But people were so resilient … I remember a teenage girl walking alone across the fields to and from her job in a bakery in Framlingham … 6 miles by car, less across the fields but with deep drifts covering ditches it would be considered dangerous nowadays, but folk thought nothing of it.

Edited to correct typo

[Busybee]

My Mum and Dad got married in 1963. Mum wore thick flannel pyjama bottoms under her wedding dress as it was so cold. The wedding photos show a cleared church footpath - but huge piles of snow as tall as a person either side of the path.

They honeymooned in London, again a photo shows a frozen fountain, in I think, Trafalgar Square.

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[Stokey Sue]

I say this every tome, because it's true - my dad took me to see the sea in Langstone Harbour frozen over, because it usually happened only once in anybody's lifetime, no phots, we possible didn't have a film on the go

So far it really is the only time in my lifetimes or his that it happened

[Earthmaiden]

The sea froze near us too near Great Yarmouth - and there were huge pieces of ice floating in the River Yare as it flowed out to sea. It must have been incredibly cold. I'm glad we saw it.

[Pepper Pig]

I am so looking forward to this. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radi ... v-all-year

I was late to Wolf Hall, it’s on iPlayer at the moment, but it’s superb. If you like that sort of thing of course.