In message , Sacha
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On 2009-07-13 20:29:29 +0100, June Hughes
said:

In message , Sacha
writes
On 2009-07-13 16:21:59 +0100, June Hughes
said:

In message , Sacha
writes
I loved Mapp & Lucia, saw it first time around and watched it
again on DVD, then re-read the books, just for good measure. My
men like Top Gear but it makes cringe, though I do find Jeremy
Clarkson's books funny. But their behaviour on tv is just too
much of the overgrown schoolboy having fun and us paying for it.
Loved Cranford and always enjoy the Jane Austen adaptations.
Lucia is such an arch snob but I like her for all that. A very
dear friend lives near Rye, where many of the stories are set, and I
going there. I had forgotten about the Jane Austin series' (can't
think of the plural of series atm). I rather like period drama but
watching the Cranford DVD, I read Mrs Gaskell's book and was
surprised to find several characters and stories that were on the
DVD but not in the book.
If Lucia wasn't like that with her "un po di musica" etc. it would
lose half its fun, IMO. She was the Mrs Buckett of her time but more
finely drawn. It's their pretensions that make them both so funny and
so endearing.
Yes indeed. I have just returned from a meeting and am supposed to
be watching a DVD Barry bought called Black Books, which is the whole
series by that name. I had never heard of it before but Barry thinks
it is terrific and has watched episode one. He's expecting me to
watch it whilst he is out this evening so that we can watch the rest
of the series together. I feel like putting Lucia on now, so when he
asks whether or not I have watched Black Books, I shall blame you

Aaaagh. Black Books? Sorry! All I know is the expression "you're in
my black book" and where on earth did *that* come from other than my
grandmother.
It was in 2000. I was supposed to watch one episode and ended up
watching three, so I shall watch the two extra ones again with Barry.
It is rather a bizarre series, not unlike Fawlty Towers, and I enjoyed
it immensely. The only thing that puzzles me is why my attention was
not drawn to it in 2000.
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June Hughes