Vintage reality

[beccabear67]

A couple more:

An Arena entry is Philip K Dick: A Day In The Afterlife. Having read a lot by the author I enjoyed it. Had no idea about a deceased twin that died in infancy haunting him (gravestone shown as proof). Also had no idea he was married so many times, or how one of the wives infleunced...

[beccabear67]

I've been enjoying the various BBC archive uploads for awhile now. Man Alive and similar ITV titles. Maybe this can be a good place to mention and comment on some of the documentary programs?

There was a good biography of author Virginia Woolf, including some filmed interviews with her...

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Noticed a credit in a second series episode for John Nathan-Turner later in charge of Doctor Who. It was a good episode too. There have been two really atrocious ones though centering on somewhat ridiculous psychiatric patients. I skipped the second one of these all together after the first few minutes...

[beccabear67]

I remember coverage of various interactive tv systems happening somewhere, but never very near to me.

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It's a fashion to want to erase vintage characters who engaged in once somewhat common but now unspeakable practices, and supporters of colonization(s) generally. They should keep the bun and forget the man by just renaming the bun. Perhaps 'Bristol Charter bun' or somesuch?

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A mobile library or grocer could make for a great playset for Lego, Playmobile or Sylvanian Families!...

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Used to have something similar across from where I worked... Chinese food and fish n' chips. They had an indoor seating area semi-connected to the counter where you ordered. I never tried their Chinese items but had chips, and a bit less often, fish... takeaway for my lunch. Down the road was a bakery...

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I guess I'm lucky, my settings block all of it out... but then there are some websites I can't load at all these days...

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In Nurses episode 10, which I watched last night, there was a Hindu third year nurse played by Karan David who had come over with her family after Idi Amin had Asians kicked out of Uganda. She goes to her first house party. Two first year nurses wander around trying to find the party (and fail), and...

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I've only seen one 1972 example of General Hospital, more soapish, and the main memory is of the male doctors all looking like they'd just come out of the hairdressers! The story seemed quite good though, with various patients with problems, and I'd watch more if I had the chance.

General...

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We've started watching a BBC series from the '70s about student nurses at a hospital in London. I think one of the second year nurses later took over from the original lead nurse in Where The Heart Is. So far so good, and in episode two a couple of them do a bit of sightseeing and you get to see Carnaby...

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Carrots mashed in with the the potatoes. Is this a thing with anybody else's family?

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Are they now just something found in the past? Ever been in one or depended on one?

I remember seeing them on the road once in awhile in the late '70s into the '90s, but with the cost of fuel I'm thinking they're now among the list of services that can no longer be afforded.