ooh the high life was superb. I may have to look out for the dvd...

You can still visit Buxton! But I'm not sure about the Spa. We met Ooktavia there (Me, Sarah, Skiffle) and had a very refined wander round some indoor gardens, and there was an airship too --- but no guarantees about a spa.

You missed out Fred the Platypus, Wilfred, and L E Phant.



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You know for a second there I was thinking 'I don't remember a platypus in Round the Horne'.....



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*snork*

If the platypus in question had been Fred, it would have been right at home. Cuddly creatures belonging to Ooktavia are quite satisfactorily weird!



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Sarah

There's an interesting cave (that's open to the public, or that was when I went there in 1986 anyway...) at Buxton, too.

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The High Life complete series is £12.99 from Play.com including P&P - bargain, I think you'll agree!



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I haven't got a DVD player! Pif paf pof.



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At one point I understood this conversation then suddenly - woosh!



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There's a hole in my creativity bucket and it's all leaked out.

Did anyone in Blighty watch that thingummy on Shakespeare? It has my old english teacher in it, and I've rampaged through most of the fields they showed, and also went to school in the same building they were chanting latin in. I even had to do the chanting, in my time.



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PSD - I was going to watch it, but I was watching Spaced on DVD and forgot. Spaced is very good, though...

Jon - 'tis available on VHS too! But amazon is charging 13.49.... No DVD extras though, really - an interview with Alan Cumming on Pebble Mill, that's about it.



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Er, one at a time, one at a time;

1. Yes, I did watch Michael Wood in search of Shakespeare. It was very interesting, actually, even if Wood does grin like an eejit the whole time. I thought the Edward Arden link was a bit tenuous, though. Did they make you do Ralph Roister Doister? (And we thought Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat was bad).

2. Spaced is utterly brilliant. Especially Mike; do you know he'd never so much as stood on a stage before until Simon Pegg talked him into doing the part? And Daisy coming home, and seeing Mike's gun on the table, and then Mike coming out of the toilet ....

3. You can't get subtitles on VHS. Waaaaaa!



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I didn't have to do Roister Doister, thank the sweet bard. I did Henry IV part one (not in *that* sense - it may have been a single sex school, but I knew where the girl's grammar was...) and Toad of Toad Hall - both directed by Perry Mills.

Perry Mills, incidentally, was the guy who came up with the cunning plan of doing 'The Story of the Blues' as a general studies topic, mostly so he could visit Ronnie Scott's on expenses. I also remember him cracking up in PSE after somebody got 'self harm' and 'self abuse' confused, which made for an interesting monolgue from Mills before he realsied what the poor kid had meant...

Interesting to watch a TV program thinking 'I left my initials carved in that', though.

And I wasn't convinced by all of it, but other parts seemed to make some kind of sense - even if I'd attach less significance to them.

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I'm thinking of celebrating my birthday with a Shakespearean pub crawl, starting at 'piping Pebworth'...



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Ah, I forgot about the subtitles thing. Pah. Does your 'puter not play DVDs either, or does it not play subtitles? I shall be racking my brains for a solution. (Or possibly wracking them...um...)

Spaced was one of the things I missed completely on TV, even though I kept reading great things about it. But it turned out to be a good thing, because I got to watch 7 episodes plus extras over two evenings, and still have another 7 to go! And yes, it's brilliant.



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A Shakesperean pub crawl! What a fantastic idea ....

AFAIK, my PC does not play DVDs, and if it did I've no idea if it would show me the subs or not (though I can't see why it wouldn't). I shall have to ask Our Kid.



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"Piping Pebworth, Dancing Marston, Haunted Hillbro, Hungry Grafton, Dudging Exhall, Papish Wicksford, Beggarly Broom and Drunken Bidford"

Eight villages, one evening. Should be fun...

(anyone know if they all have pubs still?)



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And they say he didn't come from Warwickshire. Laugh that one off, Baconians!



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Unfortunately they also say that it may not be written by Shakespeare, but nevermind...

Most convincing bit of info was the kidskin leather thingummy. The argument that Shakespeare couldn't have known about all these trades (butchery, sailing etc) also applies to other candidates, but this seems a pretty good piece of positive evidence to my mind.



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Didn't see the programme in question but if there is an argument that Shakespeare couldn't have written his plays because he wasn't known to have practised some of the trades his characters performed, that's blatent nonsense.

I've never been near a silver mine in my life, but I described the processes used in America in the 1860's in 'Hyde's Honour'. It's called research.

That's the problem with the whole line of argument...



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