Av Gorritt
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- NE Ches / SE Lancs
And here , private supply though , to be replaced when the mains became available .
All creatures great and small
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Storeman
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- Location
- South East Englandshire
I thoroughly enjoyed it. I've read the books many dozens of times and loved the original series.
The only thing I didn't like was Herriots arrival in Darrowby. In the books, Mrs Hall didn't know he was coming as Farnon had forgotten. I guess there may be other differences as the series unfolds, but I'm looking forward to watching it. Especially when Tristan turns up.
The only thing I didn't like was Herriots arrival in Darrowby. In the books, Mrs Hall didn't know he was coming as Farnon had forgotten. I guess there may be other differences as the series unfolds, but I'm looking forward to watching it. Especially when Tristan turns up.
Just watched it on repeat after seeing this thread, very good, surprised how much of the original I remembered, knew Helen's calf had a broken leg, how do we remember stuff like that when all the supposed useful facts we were meant to learn as youngsters would never stick in our brain lol.
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- S E Glos
Also watched it on catch-up and really enjoyed it. Almost wept at that amazing landscape, and this is a boy brought up on the Cotswolds.
Wilksy
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- East Riding
Are you saying there is other places outside Yorkshire!!??Hey-Up lad! What with Heartbeat, Yorkshire Vet, Clive and Amanda and now this new show.........feels like a rural take over by Yorkshire folk.........
Yes dad had a geny till the mid 1960's when mains arrived. Hard to believe a life without instant leccy.
Danllan
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- Sir Gar / Carms
Yes, sometimes a double-take is needed; a lot from hereabouts will have had to do so to reassure themselves that it wasn't filmed in and around the least beautiful bits of Carmarthenshire.
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- sw scotland
I thought the farmer needed help with a calf and initially it looked a good case of bloat until he put his arm up her.
Could be my hearing or we maybe need subtitles - just like we have sometimes had when a Scot with a dialect speaks on national TV.
Could be my hearing or we maybe need subtitles - just like we have sometimes had when a Scot with a dialect speaks on national TV.
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- S E Glos
I also almost wept at that bacon sandwich. What a whopper.Yes, sometimes a double-take is needed; a lot from hereabouts will have had to do so to reassure themselves that it wasn't filmed in and around the least beautiful bits of Carmarthenshire.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
Lister generator? Had one when I was a chiel in the 1970s.
primmiemoo
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- Devon
I could understand all the accents, but, imv, the Yorkshire was toned down. Not having heard many Scottish people when I read the books when I was a girl, I had forgotten that Herriot was Scottish. Christopher Timothy's portrayal of him as soppy English didn't help, either. I liked Nicholas Ralph as Herriot right away.
Loved the misunderstanding on the bus. Instant culture shock for the poor chap, and then to have someone drive past and speak, but not offer him a lift. A different world!
Wilksy
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- Location
- East Riding
Needs to be a bit more, jean Greene from Yorkshire Vet, and no mention of 'hot whater sooap an towel vitnerrary?
Johnnyboxer
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- Location
- Yorkshire
I bumped into Jeanie, at the doctors in Thirsk yesterday................still the same, pulled her mask down to speak (don't think she's got the hang of this Covid lifestyle)
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- sw scotland
Took mi cat t vitnery in Baaarnsley and said it weren't reet.
He asked 'Is it a Tom'?
Ah sid 'Nah, ya silly booger, it's int caa roon t' back'
Yorkshiremen please correct my spelling if it sounds like the policeman from Allo, Allo.
He asked 'Is it a Tom'?
Ah sid 'Nah, ya silly booger, it's int caa roon t' back'
Yorkshiremen please correct my spelling if it sounds like the policeman from Allo, Allo.
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- Ledbury, Herefordshire
It's almost like there wasn't a massive blockbuster remake of "Romeo and Juliet" and "10 Things I Hate About You" wasn't a remake of "The Taming of the Shrew" etc etc
In a similiar vein, I was Whatsapping yesterday with No1 daughter who is "working from home" in Tuscany at the moment at her Partners parents place.... Tough life innit...
She has been deeply unhappy though at missing all the Farming progs just recently, and especially Amanda and Co*. Apparently, it is very popular in Italy!!!
But the latest series has not been aired as yet...I would just love to see the Italian subtitles manage such little joys as, a "yowe" instead of a ewe... Methinks something will get lost in translation
* I did suggest they explore VPN, but was told not to be silly!!
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Greythundercloudys
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Channel 5 love Yorkshire, its lovely countryside, saw the Yorkshire shepherdess getn her hair cut for charity on the news this morning, she isn't bad for a nine cropper. Remember watching heartbeat and seeing a bale lifter in the yard, 30 years before it had been invented, must be hard getn every single thing old, cars farm buildings etc.
Suffolk Serf
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- Bury/Thetford
I had a Lister genny where I lived in most of the 1990's!
mmm.... I don't remember thinking that
way about the original mrs Hall either!