Hi thanks for your message and friendship request. I've had a busy but good day today - we're going to decorate my daughter's room and install a new window so there's been a lot of prep. Hope things are good with you.
In the last couple of years I've started liking olives for the first time, and now I can't get enough of them. I also love the jars of sun dried tomatoes LIDL do some nice ones in olive oil - great for cooking with and also for eating out of the jar!!!
Oh thank goodness you've all discussed it here otherwise it would have passed me by. Not watching BB tonight so that we can watch Lost in Austen.
Does anyone know when Little Dorrit and Tess of the D'ubervilles are being broadcast - I haven't read either and am hoping there will be enough time to read them before they are on telly - Little Dorrit is 700 pages long though - gasp!
:lol:Wow someone else remembers it - I'd forgotten about the stretchers. Years ago I had the misfortune to see a fire safety film made for soldiers - I was working at an army camp at the time so had to see it as a member of staff. I was haunted by the graphic images in it for days - I couldn't believe what I was watching.
We were shown a film of pictures of people in car crashes at school - as a child I'd never even thought about car crashes until then and became very scared about travelling on motorways as a result.
Hello and welcome Polemole.
I've read quite a lot of Jonathan Coe books too and The Rain Before It Falls is very different in style etc to his others. However I still enjoyed it and although I was initially disappointed by the ending I found myself thinking about it a lot and realised that Jonathan Coe had created a very thought provoking conclusion.
I like the mobile phone one where people draw the detailed map - I love the artwork.
Most hated adverts are anything medical especially those that illustrate the problem eg. ear wax, warts,
Years and years ago a programme like Nationwide did a whole programme based on discouraging children from playing near railways. It was done (rather bizarrely) in the form of adults organising different dangerous games revolving around the railtrack ie 'lets play walking through a train tunnel' as the programme went on more and more children became inevitable casualties. They certainly didn't pull any punches in the 70s when it came to safety films. Always a cautious child (and adult) these frightened the life out of me.
I remember a lot of those. I also remember a series of posters that used to be tied to lampposts so that you could spot different ones as you walked. The one that sticks in my mind is someone flying a kite near a pylon. When you're 8 things like that have a huge impact.
I'm really glad you enjoyed this Janet - I'm hoping that The Rain Before It Falls will introduce a lot of people to Jonathan Coe's writing - I love the way he writes.