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winwintoo · #31 09-19-2002, 11:13 AM

"Are You Being Served", "Fawlty Towers" There was one about some old people in a retirement community - a crusty old man and woman shared a patio - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really funny.

We don't tend to get those shows until they've had their run in Britain, then we get them on the cable "Public Broadcasting" channels.

You'd think being in Canada and us being related and all, we'd get more British mainstream tv, but we don't. All we get is the same fare that is dished up on the big american networks - besides the homegrown stuff that is sometimes unbearable to watch.

Take care,
Margaret

chris h · #32 09-19-2002, 01:10 PM

We've had quite a bit on Egypt on TV recently, a superb biography of Howard Carter and his excavations with Lord Caernarvon before the war and a couple of programs on the Pharoes.

Margaret the programme you mentioned in the retirement home was 'Waiting for God' with Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden.

Cheers.......

winwintoo · #33 09-19-2002, 01:29 PM

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Originally posted by chris h
Margaret the programme you mentioned in the retirement home was 'Waiting for God' with Stephanie Cole and Graham Crowden.

Right, thanks Chris. Of course I forgot "Corronation Street" that is shown in half hour increments every afternoon and then in one 2 hour marathon every Sunday morning. I was adicted for quite a while until all the interesting characters were either jailed or killed off.

I try to watch everything about Egypt that I can find on the tv. I once did "regression" and found myself in the desert, looking out at a camel caravan from a hiding place inside a sand dune - I don't know what that means except that I'm fascinated.

My brother lived for a time in Kuwait and I was afraid to go visit him lest the sight of all that sand would tip me over into a psychotic break fo some kind

Take care
Margaret

G. Couch · #34 09-19-2002, 01:38 PM

I used to like watching "One Foot in the Grave"...my wife says I'm going to be just like that old man one day!

I was also a big Dr. Who fan as a kid...too bad they cancelled it.

Margaret - Sounds like you need to plan a trip to Cairo! Perhaps you are descended from an Egyption queen...

winwintoo · #35 09-19-2002, 02:02 PM

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Originally posted by G. Couch
Margaret - Sounds like you need to plan a trip to Cairo! Perhaps you are descended from an Egyption queen...

My impression of my regression fantasy was that I was more like a pickpocket hiding from the law

But I like your idea of being a "queen"

Margaret

CJ Swartz · #36 09-19-2002, 02:15 PM

From "Waiting for God" website --Waiting for God

Man: "Have you put in an order for a high powered assault rifle?"

Diana: "In fact, I ordered a whole case of them, plus hand grenades, 3 inch mortars, and a selection of assorted ground to air missiles."

Man: "May I ask why?"

Diana: "We’ve got mice."

Other than Diana's over-reaction towards mice, I love "Waiting for God" and the whole cast of characters. They haven't shown it here in some years, but I'm sure it'll turn up on a cable channel sometime. I loved the theme music, which the website identifies as a movement from Schubert's "Trout Quintet".

Greg, I've never seen "One Foot in the Grave", but the episode summaries make it sound like something I'd like to see --

"Victor is worried by a mysterious rash, gives a lady window-cleaner a shock and is subsequently visited by two policemen who turn out to be Jehovah's Witnesses. An evening at an exercise class ends in confusion and tragedy. Then Victor becomes convinced that he's dead."

CJ Swartz · #37 09-19-2002, 02:32 PM

Margaret, perhaps you were a young princess hiding from your father's soldiers seeking to bring you back after you had run off with a wonderful, but lower-class, sweetheart... Oh, I hope you didn't get caught!

tobycatt · #38 09-19-2002, 02:55 PM

CJ is such a romantic hehehe. You have a whole story going, maybe you should start writing.

Hugs,
Claudia

PS...My British TV faves are Fawty Towers and The Young Ones.

winwintoo · #39 09-19-2002, 04:16 PM

CJ, I never thought of it like that - come to think of it, I was rather well-dressed

I wonder what the love of my life did to support me in the manner to which I had become accustomed. Perhaps he became a wealthy merchant trading in gold and frankencense etc.

I have a couple of story ideas that I've been working on in my idle moments - both are "time shift" stories. One involves the famous Chinese "flying horse"

http://www.unc.edu/courses/hist033/flying_horse.htm

After watching all that stuff about mummies the other night, I did some checking and found a lot more information about this horse and I need to get back to writing that story.

Maybe I wasn't Egyptian, but I sure know I have some roots back there somewhere

Take care Margaret

tobycatt · #40 09-19-2002, 04:21 PM

The Chinese have pyramids too, maybe you were in the Gobi desert instead.

winwintoo · #41 09-19-2002, 06:11 PM

HELP!! Now you've got me digging around in Chinese pyramid sites and I found a site that predicts that the whole crust of the earth will shift next year - what will happen to us all. Helpfully, they provide a list of safe locations that we can all go to.

Maybe we should plan a "RetouchPro" convention at one of those places.

Take care, Margaret

G. Couch · #42 09-19-2002, 06:28 PM

Didn't Cayce predict something like that for the year 2000? Polar shift or crust shift? I should be safe at 7000 ft above sea level...provided the local extinct volcano does not go crazy.

CJ - "One Foot In The Grave" is pretty funny. I recall one episode that took place entirely in a car...sounds boring but is was pretty funny and was certainly not something you would see from an American sitcom. Of course not all BBC shows are so great...I submit "Teletubbies" into evidence!

paulette conlan · #43 09-19-2002, 06:38 PM

Sure have some kindred souls here!I think it's great that its
expanding in many diverse directions.Anxious to take a look at the coral castle and the chinese horses. Re the interest of many people in a fascination with the unknown, from my point of view, what it comes down to is the need to believe in something to make sense of why we're here. A few years ago I heard the author of the book " When Bad Things Happen To Good People" speak. What I remember him saying is that there will most likely never be explanations for so many things in life. Unless we want to drive around with a bumper sticker on our car reading" Life's a beach(sp)and then you die" we each have to come up with our own answers. For some folks , the answers are found in their religions and for others life is a continuous search to find meaning and purpose. In many ways that may be why our art and photography give us so much satisfaction. We're creating and exploring-and as a poster on another thread said-we're playing and having fun with what we're doing.
Paulette

CJ Swartz · #44 09-19-2002, 08:31 PM

Margaret -- I'd never heard of this before, but found some comforting news regarding "pole shifts", I think we're in the clear

--Author refutes pole shift

"When John White first published "Pole Shift" in 1980, his book sent re-affirming shocks waves through the earth changes community. Many earth change believers (including this reporter) believed White's book "proved" that Edgar Cayce, and a host of other psychics, had correctly foreseen a global catastrophe that would destroy much of the planet along with major portions of the human race. White's book was particularly powerful because it was written by a man with serious professional credentials and, perhaps more importantly, because it seamlessly wed modern scientific data with contemporary psychics and ancient myths and prophecies. While White refused to say in "Pole Shift" that he was absolutely certain that a pole shift was coming, he left no doubt that he thought one might strike sometime near the year 2000.

Now, however, White has publicly said that he doesn't believe there is going to be a pole shift -- at least the kind of cataclysmic variety envisioned by Cayce, Gordon-Michael Scallion, and others. And while "Pole Shift" is still selling like hot cakes (it is presently being published by the A.R.E., Edgar Cayce's organization), the 1995 edition now contains an epilogue that discusses why a pole shift WON'T be visiting planet Earth anytime soon. White also challenged the themes championed in "Pole Shift" in another book of his published in 1990, "The Meeting of Science and Spirit." In that book he writes, "On the basis of a decade's hindsight, I think that the possibility of a catastrophic pole shift at the end of this century is increasingly unlikely. To be more precise, I do not think a pole shift will occur as predicted."

winwintoo · #45 09-19-2002, 09:15 PM

Very interesting CJ - I had to abandon my search this evening so I could pursue other interests, but I will follow up on what you've said.

Paulette - I agree with what you said. In my own life, I've had many times of intense personal drama and confusion. During those times, I've been most interested in the larger riddles of the world - as if finding meaning in them might help me to unravel some of the turmoil in my own circumstances. On the other hand, during times of peace and calm, I've had little interest in anything beyond my own circle.

I feel I'm in the middle of a huge transition - recently had to quit my job, retirement is not what I had hoped it would be, having to make decisions that will affect the rest of my life - and here I am researching ancient secrets.

Interesting. I just put that together as I was writing it. As Oprah would say, I think I just had an "AHAH" moment.

This discussion has been interesting - not much to do with retouching, but at least in my case, it helped clarify something I've been struggling with.

Take care, Margaret