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Do you think the flamingos is a nice touch since I spend a long weekend in Florida? I've been reading everyone's great comments! Keep up the good work on commenting in the BBC blogs!
ReplyDeleteLove the flamingos Ruthy. I have curtains with them on in the bedroom my Great niece uses when she stays she loves them.
DeleteKaty, my daughter took a fancy to a pink flamingo on a recent garden centre visit. It has a solar panel and lights up at night. Whatever nnext?!!
DeleteThank you for your continued support in our efforts to restore the BBC blog.
ReplyDeleteIt is very strange as I have been on all the Blog sites we use and no comments are showing at all. Is this a glitch I wonder, or have I created mayhem by complaining about discrimination ? I would like to think it is the latter.
Lovely weather once again so this morning I plan to do some gardening.
ReplyDeleteWhist doing so I will try to compose a verse -without mentioning The Archers at all and post it on any sites that are still accepting comments.
If my poem is rejected then it really will be discrimination.
Comments now accessible again
ReplyDeleteOver the 4 blogs whose comment sections are currently open
About the BBC
Technology and Creativity
Writers room
Academy
The total number of Legitimate comments amounts to 130
Given that the opening date on 1 blog is the 23rd of April
How can it be possible for the BBC to close our blog with any justification we averaged more in a week than the combined above.I shall use these new figures in my stage 3 complaint, it makes stark reading.
I too love the flamingos.
ReplyDeleteI will mention smaller creatures.
My son in Canada tells me that he has just purchased 200 ladybirds to eat the greenfly which are attacking his vegetables and fruit!
Just to try and introduce a new topic for a moment (these blogs seem to be taken over with talk about infiltrating other BBC blogs recently!) did everyone enjoy Saturday’s Royal Wedding? It certainly was a beautiful day and left me feeling really uplifted and hopeful for the future of our country.
ReplyDeleteOne of the regular contributors to the Ambridge Addicts Page on Facebook disclosed that she is the very proud mother of the person who did all the fabulous flower arrangements at the Chapel. She told us how much time and effort was put into creating them, especially that fantastic flower arch over the west door. Apparently each bloom had its own little phial of water to keep it fresh! Last night I saw her daughter interviewed on the programme from the Chelsea Flower Show. She seems a super creative person with a great team behind her and certainly the flowers were a huge talking point during the wedding coverage. 🌸
As 1 of the prime posters on this subject, accept my apologies, I will now refrain from posting, until I hear about my complaints
DeleteNo need to apologise CowGirl, I admire your efforts - just felt like chatting about something else for a while....🙂
DeleteArcherphile, the arch was outstanding, but looked so simple and unfussy. I enjoyed watching the wedding, and had no intention of watching at all.
DeleteI seem to have been blacklisted by the BBC, too. My question as to why had some comments on the Mental Health blog had been removed and others 'on the same subject' left went straight to moderation. Lanjan and Ruthy are still there which is good, but why and for how long is anyone's guess!
ReplyDeleteThat is a subject of my formal complaint
DeleteThis is the second time my post has immediately gone to moderation. I posted on Mr. Purnell's blog and made an attempt to discuss his claims that the BBC was democratic and listened to the audience. I think ( Conspiracy theory) they have worked out a system for removing any comments, on any of their blogs referring to the Archers.
ReplyDeleteBut that's the point, stasia, they haven't removed them all. It's weird - some have gone, some on the same subject left and some of us can't post at all.
DeleteGood morning Archerphile re your post this morning.
ReplyDeleteYes I watched and enjoyed the wedding on Saturday, and yes weren't the flowers lovely.
I must catch up with the Chelsea Flower Show to see the piece you mention.
Will also look up Goat Yoga having never heard of it before.
Ev - my daughter has been getting some yoga sessions in on her few days on the island. She goes to her cousin at the botanical gardens.
And I've been interested in your little dog and am intending to get in touch with the Friends of the Animals.
Fifty years ago I was on the ferry over to the island and saw an elderly lady with a little dog, rare then, it was a Shi tzu. I was very taken with it, and she invited me to go to see her in Newport. She lived very near to a cousin, so we went a few days later. When we arrived, a pack of little dogs greeted us, most of them being Tibetan Apsos and I was smitten. Within months we had our own Topsy, a TA and I bred her ( a very stressful experience ) and she lived to eleven. Like yours though she was blind at the end of her life.
A very much loved companion.
We were discussing books a little while ago and somebody (sorry I can't remember who) mentioned the Shardlake series by C.J.Sansom. I have just received an e-mail saying the 7th in the series is now avsilable. As soon As it is in paper back I'll be ordering it.
ReplyDeleteI have just watched the video of goat yoga. Fascinating!
I forgot to add that I am enjoying all of Ruthy's photos at the beginning of the blogs . Thank you.
ReplyDeleteYou mention the Royal Weding,Archerphile.
ReplyDeleteI saw the children of Princes Andrew and Edward in the congregation and Zara Tindall the daughter of Princess Anne was there.
I wondered if Peter Phillips was present .
I have a lot of time for that bunch of the Family,particularly Princess Anne.
Does anybody remember the lovely photograph of the Royal Family showing Zara's little girl clutching her great grandmother's black handbag?
Peter was there alongside Autumn, his wife. It was also lovely to see the Count + Countess of Wessex with their son and daughter being quite prominent. I have to say that I thought that HRH Prince Charles was wonderful.
DeleteHere! Here! I was born in the same year as Prince Charles, have grown
Deleteup with him and will not hear a word against him. The tabloid press have conducted a vendetta against him and forget his wonderful work with the Prince’s Trust. He is in a privileged position but is very caring. I will be devastated when the Queen dies as I was 4 when she came to the throne but will welcome him as king.
I wonder if we are getting *too* militant in our 'occupation' of other BBC blogs? I admire the persistance and creativity of those of you who manage to find an Archers angle to so many of the subjects. But if the irritation caused is simply leading to your posts being immediately blogged then perhaps this tactic isn't getting the message across?
ReplyDeleteI dip in from time to time but don't manage to post on the official blogs very often. I give lots of up arrows but I frequently *don't* mention the war, sorry, The Archers. Instead, I'm enjoying the opportunity to explore other aspects of the BBC's output. BBC Ideas, featured in the Tech and Creativity blog, is particularly rich - try the featured Lotte Reiniger for an excellent taster.
I wonder if engaging with the official topic of the blog as it stands would actually gain us more friends? If the blogmeisters see that we are interesting, engaging people who can breathe life into a moribund and underused blog they might feel more inclined to listen when we do mention the Archers. (Although, I suppose, they could find they like us so much that they petition to keep 'our' blog closed so we don't all run off back home and leave the newly rejuvenated blogs lonely again.)
Just a thought ...
I've certainly been thinking along the same lines as you, OWIAS, that if we irritate them too much, they might just blacklist us completely so that we can't post at all - even on (their) topics. It's a no win situation - if we stop irritating them, they'll think it's all blown over.
DeleteWe can of course continue with the official complaint channel and try Feedback again (with the additional argument that we were dropped last time), and perhaps it is time to try and get the press interested - not only about the axing of the blog but also the high-handed way the BBC is reacting to listener complaints/feedback. I have not yet had a single notification of the removal of several posts, btw. The trouble is that this subject is simply not big or important enough to catch the eye of anybody not directly concerned.
I think you must be right ,Old Woman
ReplyDeleteI wrote the poem and posted it on the Writersroom blog and the one on the About the BBC - Doctors and mental health.
I have tried to keep "on topic"
I did not mention The Archers as such but the post in each case was removed immediately and is receiving consideration.
This is what I wrote.
I cannot understand the BBC
They need to save some money so they choose
to scrap the blog beloved by you and me
Yet keep the sites that posters rarely use
The lonely. ,elderly and those confined
to home and there are others too who chose
to blog to try to keep an active mind.
Was it so costly that it had to close?
When you're my age I wonder if you too ,
at last ,may see things from my point of view.
LJ age 77 years.
Brilliant, Lanjan! I so hope it gets an airing.
Delete(I have had one post reinstated that was under consideration.)
Thanks HG .
ReplyDeleteI put my age in because I wanted them to think of this poor lonely miserable old biddy who was so desperate that she had to write down her thoughts.
I think that most of our comments have had some bearing on the topic just with the added bit about The Archers.
I am now trying to write a poem which will be totally on topic about being funny when not feeling funny!(writers room blog)
Have I been banned now though ?
I don't want to waste my time if I have.
Well it seems that I have been banned!
ReplyDeleteI wrote a comment on the highlights for this week which was totally on topic.
I said how pleased I was that the BBC have shown the Chelsea Flower Show.
(I did add that I was pleased about the weather but not about the Celebrities who turn up)
The comment was removed before it was put there.
So where do I go from here?
once it has been reviewed I think you will find it back. The same happened to me when I posted totally on topic,15 mins later it reappeared.
DeleteMy comment on the RAJARS blog which was sent for moderation has now been posted. I thought it was on topic even though I did mention the archers. The BBC can't claim (Mr Purnell) to be a democratic organisation when it doesn't listen to i
ReplyDeleteContinuing, It's audience.
ReplyDeleteI love the images of the flamingos. They really remind me of Featherstone, the flamingo who was very prominent, in the brilliant film "Gnomeo + Juliet" with encompassed the music of the wonderful Sir Elton John. (Sherlock Gnomes is next!).
ReplyDeletePS I have seen flamimgos "in the wild" and what wonderful, elegant birds they are.
DeleteThey’re very smelly though en masse!
DeleteYour not kidding Ev - they are kept in an enclosure that is open to water at Slimbridge. The smell is worse than an abattoir !
DeleteArcherphile May 22 8.59am.
ReplyDeleteI very much applaud your efforts for trying to introduce other topics of conversation onto this board.
I have very sadly recently read a post from some-one, who in that communication, is teferring to herself as a "prime poster".
I think that I have to be a tertiary poster.
I am very interested in something that I read in your post, in that you referred to Archers Addicts. I would like to know more about this alternative site for comments. I so hope that you can provide me with the relevant information.
DeleteMiriam, may I respectfully request that when you refer to me you use my name. I am not Somebody, my name is Cowgirl. Thank you
DeleteWe took Gypsy to the vet today who cleaned out her ears and it seems to have disorientated her. When we call she goes off in the other direction or just round in circles! I guess she will improve when she gets used to her new hearing ability! She also has dry eyes so daily drops and there was a foot problem which needs antibiotics and steroids for a fortnight. I also have to wash her feet with the medicated shampoo they gave us and wrap her up for 10 mi utes to give it chance to work.Her heart and teeth are good! I am glad to say as I am only fostering and the charity own her, they are picking up the vet bills. Today’s session and medication would cost a lot. I think I will make a monthly donation to them! There is also of course her weight problem at over 9 kilos when she should be about 6 or 7. The border collie we had, a much bigger dog only weighed 2 stone, about 14 kilos. He wasn’t a gannet like her and would only eat what he wanted. Also he was very active. The problem is that she has belonged to two elderly ladies who pampered her with treats and I don’t think she had enough exercise.
ReplyDeleteRuthy, do your flamingoes light up at night as Katy’s does? I sometimes wonder what Katy will do next! She is named after my favourite childhood book hence the American spelling! My auntie gave me the book which had been her Sunday School prize in 1928. I still have it and it is well worn as I read it so many times!
I think that the person to whom you are referring ,Miriam said that she was ONE of the prime posters which she is.
ReplyDeleteShe has apologised for mentioning it so much.(9.53 am today)
I admire her.
If we do ever get back our blog she is one of the people who will have been responsible for it happening.
However I know that some folk are tired of one or two of us going on about it so I will be happy to put the word "blog" at the start of any comment I make about it.
I have actually commented on THE wedding and Chelsea Flower Show on Ruthy's blogThere isn't a lot of cheerful news around at the moment ,is there?
I am listening to Wuthering Heights on radio 4
I don't know why but I prefer it to Jane Eyre.
By gum,that Kathy were a feisty wench.
I think of her as a Yorkshire Scarlet O' Hara.
You're welcome to the Wuthering, Lanjan ! I'm the other way, much preferring Jane Eyre. Now that Jane WERE a feisty lass, & not all about overblown emotion & windswept, wild romance - Miss Eyre had guts & a mind as well as a heart..
ReplyDeleteMiriam @7.49 pm
ReplyDeleteThe site I was referring to is the Ambridge Addicts page on Facebook. There are several Archers groups on Facebook but some are very sweary with bad language and lots of off topic stuff. But Ambridge Addicts sticks very much to comments about the programme and no swearing or nastiness is allowed. It is a members only group so nobody except other Ambridge Addicts members will see your posts. Hope this helps.
Blog. Having read Owias 's comments about perhaps being too militant I thought I would try the following different approach and see if they twig it and still delete me - my daughter has leant me an old email address of hers and I have put my user name as Bloglessarchersfan. That way the name makes the point but I can comment on things totally on topic. I don't normally blog, in fact I didn't even know such a thing existed until my trusty radio broke down last autumn and I started listening on the Iplayer. I much prefer staying quietly in the background and just dipping in
ReplyDeleteoccasionally, but I felt strongly about the way in which the BBC closed the blog and wanted to contribute to the complaints.
Ruthy I think your photos are stunning. Did you ever watch Disney's flamingos accompanied by music and the chaos caused by one playing with a yo yo?!
Loved your poem LanJan.
I am catching up with blog reading this evening. LanJan - are Ladybirds 🐞?
ReplyDeleteGianna - you are very welcome. I do love finding these simples photos for our blog. I will look for those books you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteThe Shardlake series is set in the time of Henry VIII and they often broadcast on Radio 4 straight after Woman's Hour. This week it is Wuthering Heights. I wonder if Lynda Snell listens to them.
DeleteI am always reminding myself to get some Shardlake reading whenever I hear the series on R4 , but never seem to get around to doing so.
DeleteI think I would love them.
LanJan - I too also 💕 your poem!
ReplyDeleteInteresting - same thing is happening to me when I post on BBC blogs. The comments directly goes to moderation. Somehow, they are monitoring our comments. Big Brother is watching!
ReplyDelete15 minutes later, my comments are back. So Big Brother is watching. I wonder what attention we are getting from blogging subversively?
DeleteBlog - I am banned too. Janice 11.30 pm, your user-name is such a good idea. I am having problems getting a new email address, but will use your plan when I have managed it.
ReplyDeleteBlog-Well done Janice.
ReplyDeleteI like the User name you have chosen.
How does one get round the fact that David Attenburgh is sitting there with your present User name and password already there?
It asks me if I am that person.
If I delete it will I be able to add the new one with different email address ?
I dare not do so in case I lose the present one.
I did have to delete janicebythesea to begin with in order to put the new user name in but now dear old David Attenborough gives me a choice of the two, and I just click on the one that I want. I did have a bit of a confloption when I got the passwords jumbled up and I did have my daughter's help in sorting it out, but if you write down which password goes with which email address you should be okay.
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ReplyDeleteYes Ruthy these are ladybirds.
Lovely little creatures.
I had never heard of anyone buying them before my son mentioned it .
I once asked for 1000 worms for a Christmas present to start up my wormery.
1000 worms is not many.
They were really tiny .
Most disappointing.
Carolyn,I intend to re read Jane Eyre.
ReplyDeleteI have an idea that I was put off re reading it after seeing a dreadful film of it in which Jane Eyre was not at all as I thought she would be.
I didn't want that picture of Jane in my mind.
Meanwhile I will still Wuther away.
I think Emma could play Kathy .
She is a much watered down version of her I feel.
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ReplyDeleteIt is obvious that we are being noticed and I ,being an optimist think that it will ,in time , pay off.😀😀😀😀😀
Blog. I also think we are being noticed. Giving up is never an option when an injustice has been done. I am reminded of the man who pitched a tent outside Parliament objecting to war. He gathered quite a following and after living on the pavement for many years was eventually listened to and the war ended. Big organisations will try to avoid doing the right thing, believing that we mere, ordinary people will give up. Ill treatment should never be pushed under the carpet.
DeleteDid you see Harry and the bee? For Ruthie who might not, Harry and Meghan had their first public engagement at. a garden party celebrating Prince Charles’ 70th birthday later this year and also his charity work. Harry made a speech and was interrupted by a bee buzzing in his ear. He swatted it away and said it had got to him! Apparently he was not stung. Bees just do not respect royalty! I always think Harry looks lik e a young Henry VIII who in his youth was very active and athletic before the years, overindulgence and 6 marriages took their toll!
ReplyDeleteI havnt seen the ' bee' episode yet, though do know of it.
DeleteYou are so correct Ev, doesn't he just look like H V111
Apparently Henry VIII fell off his horse and may have suffered brain damage, which contributed towards his changing from a tall, athletic young man into a big fat blob. Yes, Prince Harry is definitely a Tudor. Be careful, Harry.
DeleteRuthy, am I correct in thinking that in the USA our ‘ladybirds’ are called ‘ladybugs’? I have been playing an online game (I know, at my age!) that requires finding differs objects in q scene and it sometimes asks for a ‘ ladybug’.
ReplyDeleteSorry for the typos above, my eyes are poor this morning!
ReplyDeleteRegarding the various Brontë novels, my favourite was definitely Jane Eyre.
My Mum won a copy as a school prize, way back in 1912; a beautifully illustrated edition bound in purple leather and silk. I was allowed to read this precious book once I could read well enough and the story haunted me - especially the descriptions of Janes life at Lowood Hall. I have seen several different TV adaptations of the story but none have the power of the original text.
I still have Mum’s little book today, rather tattered and foxed, but I wouldn’t part with it for anything.
What a great story, Archerphile! A family heirloom, feeding the literary tastes of at least 2 generations, perhaps more?
DeleteMrsP. I was a member of Slimbridge for a long time. Last year decided to cancel as I wasn't going as often. I know they undertake a lot of research and the captured wildfowl do bring in overwintering birds, but in order to get to the hides requires walking around hundred of different birds and that doesn't include screaming wild children. Decided to make a monthly subscription to MSF instead.
ReplyDeleteStasia, if, when, you visit London sometime, spend an hour or so at Wetlands in Barnes. A totally different experience.
DeleteI joined when my dog died and although Wimbledon Common only three minutes from my door, too many memories with dog made it difficult to walk there. So Wetlands a wonderful space to walk in extreme peace but without memories.
Utterly different to Slimbridge !
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ReplyDeleteI have just received a response from the complaints department re my complaint about discrimination on my comments.
Apparently they only accept editorial content complaints.
I have entered a complaint on the the moderation site requesting a response, failing that I have said I would make an appeal against each removal, which I am sure they would not wish!
Finding the right forum is difficult.
You can , however , appeal against your banning and restrictions. I shall see how far I get with this, I am quite prepared to go all the way.
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ReplyDeleteMy Appeal has failed, they make no reference to my suggestion that this is discriminatory.
I shall now write to the Director General.
The wholsale deletion of our comments, without reference to the remaining ones is in my view discriminatory. The BBC has a duty of care to ensure even an even handed approach.
I will update you when I have had a response
Thank you all for your support, it is greatly appreciated.
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ReplyDeleteCowgirl I wish you the best of luck .
I wrote to the Director a General without getting a reply.
I then emailed him and again I got no response.
I telephoned the Complaints Department and was given a case number
I wrote another letter quoting the case number at the beginning of May.
Needless to say that I am still waiting to hear from somebody.
I am prepared to wait until the end of the month but then I will try to think off something else
I am appalled at the rudeness of the BBC.
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DeleteI knew you didn't get a reply, however I just think the number of times they don't respond gives more power to our argument.
Clearly they hadn't read my complaint about discrimination as they said my appeal had failed as I broke the house rules. I clearly stated that I was not complaining about that .but about discrimination.
I did wonder if I get no response about writing to the Govenors or who ever it that oversees the BBC
My suggestion for ' something else '
ReplyDeleteMethinks you need a journalist to take an interest in your campaign.
One amongst you must have a contact !
But not G Reynolds.
She has more than done her bit.
( or maybe she could point you in the direction of another appropriate journalist
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DeleteThank you for your helpful suggestion.
I personally don't have any contacts, I was going to try the press when I have had a response to my executive complaint and of course this will now include the DG, both will go recorded tomorrow
BY way of a change Mrs P and Ev
ReplyDeleteI used as a child to live on the Isle of Wight, well for a few years at least. We lived in Brighstone, opposite the church. I have many happy memories not least of cycling down the cliffs on my bike and seeing how far out to sea I could go and spending hours on the moor at the back. We had such freedom in those days. Children today miss out on so much.
Nice. To find another island devotee Cow Girl.
DeletePlease tell me the cliff faces weren't vertical! Or did you have a super-strong bungee cord fixed to your back axle?
DeleteIt’s a lovely island and great for a staycation! The beaches are as good as any I have encountered abroad. Sadly Sandown which used to be a popular holiday town is now severely in decline. After moving here we found far more of interest than we had found on the mainland.
DeleteI through this in for what it's worth.....I'm probably way off beam on this one but aim high........how about David Aaronovitch! He is still (I think) Chairman of human rights organisation 'Index on Censorship.' Now I know before someone screams at me 'you must be joking.' He has a good media presence and if TA is well below his interest or intellectual level, as Mrs P says 'could point you in the direction of another appropriate journalist.'
ReplyDeleteBB - that's the sort of thing I was thinking of.
DeleteNo good just writing to the Times or any other paper. Get in touch with Journalists direct. They all publish their email addresses.
You have all been so militant, I don't understand your hesitation.
What about M. Goves wife ?
Sorry throw this in!
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ReplyDeleteI contacted theTimes newspaper if you remember and got quite excited when a reporter showed interest,telephoned me and said that he felt sure other newspapers would be interested.
We got a very brief mention in the newspaper.
I contacted the Daily Mail by email and got no response.
I contacted The Sunday Times by telephone to ask to speak to Gillian Reynolds
I was told that she would ring me.
She didn't
Maybe she didn't get the message.
I tried to contact one of the main reporters of the Sunday Times who is a great trouble stirrer.
I was told that I would have to send an email to the newspaper and they would send it on to him.
I did that and had an email from the newspaper to say they had forwarded it to him.
No response.
All this was before we found out that other BBC blogs were still available but were under utilised.
I mentioned some time ago that a friend suggested contacted my MP
ReplyDeleteI thought she was joking but at the end of this month I plan to do just that if I have still not heard anything.
Surely he should be able to tell us where to turn.
I don't hold out much hope .
He is supposed to be very interested in the homeless of our area and when it was really cold I telephoned him to find out where I could find the poor people who needed warm clothes etc .
I was told (not by him) that he wouldn't know .
He was just a Patron.
I don't think he would put himself out.
He is almost as old as I am so is not likely to want to stand in the next General Election.
I will give him a chance first but then I intend to contact an MP who I think will be more supportive.
We will get there in the end.
We will wear them down eventually.
Well LJ, you and all others on the war path....(If I mention some names I am sure to miss out on others who have given of their best....so I won't!)
DeleteWith some dry powder in reserve and at the ready, all I can say is the BBC is missing a trick by ignoring such perseverance and passion. May the force be with you!!
Blog. O.K. everybody, I now have multiple personality syndrome, have resorted to answering my own posts on the BBC. My posts are still going straight to moderation, but I think some may get through. Will do more later, busy gardening now. (Ms Archer of Ambridge, Ms A of Ambridge).
ReplyDeleteI am so glad you are okay and not really cracking up. I haven't stopped chuckling since I realised what you were up to on the Mental health blog! I think I will suffer from AWS.
DeleteJanice ;)
DeleteSome definately won't get through as I resorted to SHOUTING about censorship.
ReplyDeleteCowgirl, why not cc emails etc to the Today program. John Humphries has done Archers related stories before, I think the last time was about sepsis / Nic's death. Doesn't that seem like ages ago?
ReplyDeleteI post them. may be try after my response.
DeleteBlog - I am taking a short break from work and looked through the About BBC blog. Looks like if we didn't comment, there wouldn't be any. What is the point of having those blogs if they don't get used? I guess, we have already asked that question.
ReplyDeleteSnapsot on the 21st across 4 blogs 130 comments I blog open a year. If we use only those comments this year it reduces is to 77 across all 4
ReplyDeleteI have an idea for Ruthy
ReplyDeleteWhy not crate a third blog entitled "The Blog Blog"
Then everyone who wants to record their doings on other BBC blogs, whether they were rejected, deleted, banned or whatever can communicate with each other and discuss tactics to their hearts content ......while the rest of us who want to chat about other topics such as books, plays, TV programmes, gardens, the weather etc can do so here without wading through all these blog reports..
Sorry to sound peeved, but I'm getting a bit fed up with it now. I keep trying to introduce a new topic but it doesn't seem to work for more than a minute or two.
Think I'll just avoid this non-Archers blog until all the campaigning has either been successful (which I hope it is) or dies down.
Good on yer Archerphile !
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Wuthering Heights was a favourite book when I was a teenager Having been brought up in a town across the border in Lancashire on the other side of the moors from Haworth and visited it several times. I haven't read it recently or watched any of the films or listened to it on the radio, I don't want to spoil the pictures that I had in my teenage head.
ReplyDeleteCheshire Cheese ,I am so pleased that someone else thinks as I do about Wuthering Heights.
DeleteI am really enjoying listening to it on the radio each day (I wait until I am preparing the meal in the evening)
I still have the same picture I had in my head over 60 years ago.
Kathy looked like a friend from school who never seemed to bother about homework or worry about exams.
Whilst those with long hair. ( lucky them) had their hair in plaits or pony tails she had hers loose.
I wouldn't want to see a film or watch it on TV (unless Sean Bean was Heathcliffe!)
I at one time lived on the moors across from Bronte country, my house was always referred to as Shivering Heights, an apt description. In winter I often had to walk 3 miles to pick up the car to go to work. Even a landrover wouldn't manage. No services of course. Even today I miss the wonderful soft gas lighting and the gentle hiss to emanated from it.
DeleteAargh CowGirl...... the hiss of gas lighting !
DeleteSuch childhood memories.
Precious.
Incidentally I have gas lights, converted to electric that I have taken from house to house since the sixties.
My granddaughter has recently said to her mother, ' look mum, Nannas lights, there cool ' her mother rolled her eyes !
I did finally get around to reading Jane Ayre (after The Wide Sargosso Sea) but I have to admit to never having wuthered anywhere. I've just checked, we do have the book. (Being by a 'B' it's on an appropriately high shelf on the bookcase.) I shall endeavour to do my homework so I can properly join in this conversation. And find out if I have an opinion to Heathcliff ;)
DeleteArcherphile, I think those who are, so valiantly, challenging the blog injustice, on all our behalfs, do need to compare notes, in order to have a chance of getting a result in the long term. Also, it is mutually supportive & lets all of us know the progress of the campaign. I agree, it's very interesting to talk about all sorts of things, which we do, but trawling through the blog issue is a small price to pay in the circumstances. Personally, I wouldn't want a 3rd section, more pictures for Ruthy to source as well. As it is, we'll probably going to need a new 'off topic' before the week is up! Better, on balance, though, than juggling 3 blogs ?
ReplyDeleteWell said. A third blog would be too much to trawl through and extra work for Ruthy. Thanks Ruthy for giving us two blogs.
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ReplyDeleteSorry Mistral,Today was another programme I emailed without getting a reply.
I imagine your comment re an extra blog for those who want to continue to campaign to get our blog was tongue in cheek to Ruthy ,Archerphile.
If we continue to write "blog "at the top of our posts then you can ignore it.
(You have possibly done so with this already but if like me when scrolling down you spot your name then maybe you will read it)
Non blog
What Ruthy has given us is a special place to write anything we want to which is off topic.
Archerphile I have commented on the Royal Wedding,Chelsea Flower Show,Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.
Having just listened to "All in the Mind" where the discussion was about how gardens are so useful in helping those with mental health problems and having spent a morning gardening as usual on these fine days I can go along with that.
I am convinced that trying to spot something new in one's garden each day st this time of year can help to make one feel so good.
Today our first poppy flowered.
Yesterday a purple clematis.
I'll tell you what though.
Gardening doesn't half play havoc with one's back and legs with all the getting up and down one has to do.
Lan Jan 4.51. Lucky you. I can't get up and down anymore, have resorted to bending over from the waist like an elderly person.
DeleteI had a difficult time when I last pumped up my car tyres. I got completely stuck when crouching down, I had to 'crawl' my way up the car, sweaty palms slipping on the paintwork. Thank goodness no-one was waiting or watching.
LanJan this is a lovely post - especially regarding the daily flowers! Thank you for sharing.
DeleteI love both Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre and re-read these two almost every year. They are both in my iPad so with me wherever I travel.
Lanjan - I agree about the mentally therapeutic effects of garden, and have always enjoyed my various gardens. Like you, I usually do a leisurely tour of the garden first thing to spot which flower has opened, or which plant has sprouted overnight - such a nice surprise when something you thought had fallen by the wayside during the winter suddenly shows signs of being alive and kicking after all.
DeleteAnd Mistral - I know exactly what you mean about not being able to get up and down very well. I too have to do the 'old lady bend' when weeding, and find I can only manage short bursts of activity, followed by a nice sit down with a cuppa while I recuperate! As I have a large garden which is constantly trying to cover itself with couch grass, nettles, brambles, thistles and bindweed - oh, and don't forget the goosegrass (cliders as we call them here), I live in constant dread of my efforts not being equal to those of the weed population. Also, bending, whilst relieving the strain on the poor old knees, is forever threatening to bring on the dreaded sciatica instead. But, all worth it when I can look out on a reasonably weed-free bed of pretty pink, blue and white columbines, as I can today. PS: Love your description of having to crawl your way up your car - have been there many times myself!
Suz, 9.38 a.m. I too do the morning check of what's new in the garden. My weeding problem has reduced by approx 20% as I have left the top end of my garden to go wild. This began about three years ago when I lost my extension cable for the mower so couldn't cut it. Then some bamboo went rogue, and travelled a bit. I really like it and feel virtuous as I am helping the wildlife. I also like the contrast of lawn and borders giving way to the swaying weeds.
DeleteThe car situation was funny in retrospect but worrying at the time. These things creep up so unexpectedly. My bottom kitchen cupboards probably contain things I will never see again...
I too have a wild part at the end of my grass. I wont call it lawn as it is too uneven for that.
DeleteLast year I planted wild tulips camassia gladioli and alliums in the wild, with daffs and bluebells the year before, hope eventually for it to look stunning. I buy these bulbs not thinking that when they arrive in a couple of months time I have to plant them and 5 inches deep in heavy clay soil is not easy. Don't suppose I will learn as I am already thinking what next!
Cowgirl, Bluebells would look lovely in my wild patch. I have far too many in a border, so I will transplant them when they've died off. What a good idea, thank you.
DeleteI have responded to Cheshire Cheese re Wuthering Heights a few posts ago.
ReplyDeleteDid anyone watch a remake of Far from the Madding Crowd with Carie Mulligan as Bathsheba?
I had to turn it off.
Bathsheba is Julie Christie.
In fact that film version of the 1960s was brilliantly cast in my opinion.
Lan Jan - I came out of the cinema with my companion and said ' well, that was all very beautiful, but she wasn't Julie Christie, he wasn't Alan Bates, and it wasn't directed by John Schlesinger ' .
DeleteAnd I didn't see Terrence Stamp anywhere.
So Zilch !
I lived in Hardy country for a few years but sorry, don’t rate him very highly. I remember seeing Julie Christie in “Don’t Look Now” and was so shaken by the ending that my husband had to buy me a strong coffe to calm me down! Dr Zhivago was another triumph for her and of course Omar Sherif - is that how you spell it? He smouldered through it!
DeleteOh, yes, LanJan, Sean Bean as Heathcliffe! The chap who played Ross Poldark or Tom Willis would be good too!
It’s Sharif have googled!
DeleteWrong again that should have been Tom Ellis as Heathcliffe! Too many Senior Moments! He was Miranda Hart’s love interest in Miranda and is also “Lucifer” a series we have watched on Amazon. Ruthy might have seen it as it is an American series.
DeleteOh Ev! How could anybody *not* rate Hardy? I think I shall have to sit down with a strong cup of tea to calm me down now.
DeleteI fell in love with him as a teenager - Jude particularly appealed to me, gory child that I was. Admittedly I fell out with him after reading A Pair of Blue Eyes - girl meets unsuitable boy, girl meets suitable boy, girl is unsuitable because of unsuitable boy, girl dies. Too much like Tess for my liking. But we've recently made up again. I must say, though, that Jude hits home rather harder when you read him as an adult.
When I've done my Wuthering homework I must return to my Hardy. I think I'll start at Casterbridge.
We did “The Mayor of Casterbridge”. for A Level and yes I did rate it very highly. However, I find Tess and co too gloomy but in his day it was rather a rough ride for lasses such as her. As a social commentator I prefer Dickens. Although hard hitting in some ways, there is an element of humour in his writing and the characters are superb. We used to go to a Wetherspoons in Tewkesbury, an old coaching inn, which was reputed to have featured in Pickwick Papers. It’s all a matter of taste OW. My Katy is not the least bit interested in “What Katy Did” let alone what she did next! As I said I loved it so much that I named her after the book! I must read Casterbridge again. I know Dorchester well!
DeleteWell, I agree with everyone today. I have always enjoyed nineteenth century novels - not least, because they're usually a chunky and satisfying read for an avid reader. I read my way through many of them when I was a teenager. Favourites then were Hardy and the Brontes - especially Wuthering Heights, of course. Very dramatic and gothic. Then, in later life I started on the Russian epics - Tolstoy, Chekov and Solzhenitsyn - and Dickens and George Eliot. I re-read my favourites from time to time, as well as dabbling in some of the more up-to-date fiction. I don't mind whether my reading is old fashioned or modern, just so long as it is well written. I have just started re-reading the Poldark series by Winston Graham, and, although I know the plot back to front, I find that I just can't put them down because of the wonderful descriptions of the Cornish weather and countryside - and the lovely Cornish accent just leaps off the page and into my ear. Perfect.
DeleteOh! I missed dear Jane Austen. How could I! I have devoured everything she wrote in her short life - many times. Beautifully written and a lovely, sly humour.
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ReplyDeleteI am really enjoying a relaxing interlude, as I am just sitting in the garden, admiring all my very own hard work. Today I have mowed the lawns, I have also done all the edges and I have also prepared the borders for the new planting. This will have to wait until my pension goes in on the 1st! All I need to do now is to empty my tubs and window box.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting very paciently in anticipation for 6.00pm as this is the time that I can open a bottle of Sauv. Blanc. I can enjoy a glass before I have to create a meal and listen to TA.
I think that I will be needing the
jacuzzi bath later on.
LanJan - the remake of Madding Crowd was tedious and boring.
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ReplyDeleteI think you should send your stuff ( in all its detail ) to Eddy Mair at PM
BLOG-Will a BBC employee want to speak against his Masters,Mrs P?
ReplyDeleteNon blog-re remakes
In my opinion the following should not have been or ever be re filmed
1) The Railway Children
2) The 39 steps
3) Goodbye Mr Chips
4) The Go Between
5) Gone with the Wind.
However
I preferred the more recent version of Poldark to the original one.
We did the 39 Steps by John Buchan at school. I thought it a good yarn at the time although I now see how contrived and improbable it is. I did enjoy the Kenny More version but he was always a great favourite. Loved him as Douglas Bader and when he was in the original Forsyte Saga. I didn’t rate the remake of that!
Delete'Daddy! My Daddy!'
DeleteIf you ever get to see the play set at a real station, do go. You sit on the platform and the steam train appears at the ends of Act One (red flannel petticoats) and Act Two. We saw it at the Railway Museum in York, I believe it sometimes comes to Waterloo.
I've never seen a film of The Go Between but studied the book at school. It's OK but I much prefer The Hireling.
My DVD of Pride and Prejudice includes an alternative ending for showing in America. Austen it aint!
Talking of alternative endings, we went on a cruise to St Petersburg and I went with our American of Italian extract friend, Pip. My husband was not the least interested in ballet and stayed on the ship! It was Swan Lake and in the end the swan didn’t die and he got the girl. My disappointment in not having a tearful ending was immense! When they took a bow at the end, all the Brits booed the “baddie”. I don’t know what the Russians made of this! Pip said “you’re not at the pantomime now” to which I replied “We’re British, it’s what we do!” In the interval we had a very bad glass of bubbly which I tackled valiantly until Pip said “You don’t have to drink it all!”, and with relief I left it! Before the ballet we had shuffled into our seats which had little leg room and a besuited lady resembling the one in James Bond who had a flick knife in her shoe ordered us out until they decided we take our seats. We edged out again and waited for about 10 minutes until she decided we could go in again. Yes, it was quite an experience! Except for the ending the ballet performance was superb!
DeleteThat should have read at the beginning that I went to the ballet with Pip!
DeleteLan Jan Eddie Mair specialises in taking the BBC to task !
ReplyDeleteI watched with scorn my parents watching Poldark. Now I'm old too, and love it.
Would probably enjoy the original also .
They stabled their horses at a moorland village not far from us. They had two identical horses for Ross Poldark. One was a lovely gentle thing which Aidan Turner rode, and the other one had a faster turn of speed and he was ridden by a very skilled acrobatic rider, whose family owned the horses, when a gallop or difficult riding was required.
DeleteOK Mrs P .
ReplyDeleteI like Eddie Mair
Perhaps several of us could get in touch at the same time.
Several emails perhaps on the same day.
Ladies tell me when you want to go ahead.
Good luck then.
DeleteWilling to give it a try!
DeleteMe too
DeleteGive me plenty of warning when. I am supposed to be cutting down on my obsessive behaviour, you now give me a reason no too!
I loved the "original" Poldark with Robin Ellis and Anghared Rees. At about the same time (I seem to remember) there was also the Onedein Line and I also was very addicted to "Howards Way".
ReplyDeleteI have forgotten another wonderful series. which had a magnificant cast, and that was the original series of The Forsyte Saga, even though it was in B+W. I just cannot remember when I was able to upgrade to a colour TV', I seem to think that it was in the early 1970"s.
DeleteI read the first Forsythe book a few years ago. I think I started the second but the book fell apart mid-reading. Shocking to see, in such a comparatively modern book, the acceptance that beating you wife was perfectly normal.
DeleteForsyte saga. I remember watching the serial on Sunday nights, and being sent to bed straight afterwards. I enjoyed a radio dramatisation about two years ago, I remember 'seeing' the characters as they were played in the t.v. series, Nyree Dawn Porter, Susan Hampshire, Kenneth Moore etc. Even the names I have forgotton still have faces in my memory.
DeleteLanJan @ 6.55: I totally agree with your list of films that should never be remade - especially The Go-between, one of my favourites.
ReplyDeleteMay I add the Alistair Sim version of A Christmas Carol which I first saw at school (end of term treat) in the 1950s, an absolute classic.
And to add a little story about a Brontë novel - Mr A was walking down Brontë Street in London a few years ago, past those houses that have been divided into flats, including basement flats with stairs leading down from the pavement. One resident had put a name plate on the gate with an arrow pointing downwards - it said “↙️ Wuthering Lows”
He tells that story quite often!
Pray tell - who is our “bloglessarchersfan”? I wanted to up arrow you but the BBC closed that blog to further comments.
ReplyDeleteHello Ruthy I put in a post here somewhere earlier that I was going to borrow an old email address of my daughter and use the above name . That way I could make a point but make comments that were on topic, and hopefully not get deleted so much. However they are still sending me for moderation before allowing. I think their automated system must be picking up on "archers" even though it's only in the user name. I expect you guessed what A.W.S. was! A pity it closed as I think Mistral plus myself could have kept that one going! I am still chuckling over Mistral's MPD.
DeleteArcherphile- that version of Christmas Carol is my favorite, and second is the Muppets Christmas Carol 🌲
ReplyDeleteThe Muppets wins every time for me. Any unfortunate visitors that come to stay over Christmas are forced to watch it with me :)
DeleteI agree about the Muppets vrrsion! I do so wonder what that says about me.
DeleteMrsP. I have been to the Barnes Wetland Trust several times. Amazing what they have created so close to central London. Also has a very nice cafeteria and good food. A friend was the lead vicar for Barnes and Richmond. So it was convenient to stay and would do a bit of bird watching at the same time. Unfortunately she has now moved to a bigwig job in Cardiff. The coast line there is also good for bird watching.
ReplyDeleteI have never watched any of the BBC programmes like Poldark etc.
My sister was doing Hardy for A levels so I read all his books, which allowed me to discuss the content with her. As a young person I went through phases of reading which I tended to classify by nationality. In my existential years it was French literature, then Irish, Russian, Americian and English, and other books in between. At school we had to do Wuthering Heights, along with The Tempest and the Thirty Nine Steps, all very tedious for young people.
Good to have confirmation of my enthusiasm for Wetlands Stasia, and agree about the cafeteria. Sitting on the balcony overlooking the water on a summer afternoon. Bliss.
ReplyDeleteOld Woman. I took my grandchildren to see the Railway Children at Waterloo.
It was such an iconic aspect of my children's early childhood, I wanted my grandchildren to experience it too.
We had the record of the soundtrack of the film and played it over and over.
I know all the words of the whole film.
But ' daddy, my daddy' will always be so memorable.
Old Woman 11.32.a.m. Your first sentance gave me goose-bumps, The very old video I have always makes me cry at that point. It really is powerful.
ReplyDeleteI took my two sons to see The Railway Children
ReplyDeleteAt the point where Bobbie was waving her red petticoat on the railway line,my younger son then aged three stood up and shouted loudly that the train was coming.
That started a love for railways for him.
He is now a volunteer signalman on a heritage railway.
Oh I do agree about "Daddy my daddy".
Only Jennifer Agutter could say that.
When I took my elder son to se Bambi when he was little I was in tears when Bambi's mother was killed.
My husband always said he cried when Bambi’s mother died! He was only a little boy though!
DeleteI first saw the Railway Children as a serial on children’s TV way back in the 50’s, but can’t remember who was in it. We didn’t have a TV but the lady next door used to knock on a Sunday afternoon to let me and my brother go round. She was a single lady who worked full time and looked after her elderly, blind father so sometimes it wasn’t convenient and we were so disappointed! She used to have a sixpence each for us as we left. I remember going round to her on Christmas Day to show her our presents once, mine a much coveted nurse’s uniform with cape from M &S! I remember her with much fondness. People can be so kind!
ReplyDeleteMy mum took me to see Snow White, the Disney one when I was 4. I was terrified by the wicked stepmother and cried so much she had to take me out of the cinema. Thirty years later I saw the whole thing through to the end when I took my own small daughter to see it. She didn’t turn a hair being made of stronger stuff than me!
ReplyDeleteModern Etiquette
ReplyDeleteI recently sent a cheque-I thought a reasonable amount - plus birthday card for my step great grandson's birthday first birthday from Mr LJ and me.
Like in many households I imagine it is often the wife who remembers to send birthday cards and presents.
I received a brief text to say thank you but it was unaddressed and unsigned so had I sent several cheques I would not have known who had texted me.
Question
1) Is it too much to expect a personal thank you ?.
2) On a slightly different subject if one is emailing a firm or a CEO of a Company ,does one write one's address as one would if a letter had been written?
I always do but wonder now if it is expected since the recipient would have my email address anyway.
Thank you.
My niece always sends thank you cards from her children to me her eldest now 4 signs her name and often makes her own card. The same can be said of a friend of hers who I have known for years and send birthday and Christmas gifts to her children.I have in the past stopped sending gifts to other nephews and nieces who never said thank you, having warned them first.If I take the trouble to send a gift then I expect a thank you however long it takes, neither do I think I am a crabby so and so.
DeleteMy nephews have never been taught to send thank you letters. As my brother and partner had them late in life though they have no grandparents and I usually send them money for birthdays and Christmas. They are lovely boys but even a text would be better than nothing! As children we always had to write the thank you letters on Boxing Day!
DeleteAs suggested it is Mum that usually makes sure thank you letters are sent.
DeleteI am very proud of my daughter as my three Grandchildren always send thank you cards usually made by themselves, or letters.
They are often rather late, but they do eventually arrive.
Should add, that their dad probably has just as much to do with it.
Impeccable manners !
Ev, your right, being taught is crucial. It does not always come naturally.
LanJan I don’t think you need to put your home address in an e mail but of course your full name and any reference/customer number to identify you. They have your e mail address so can ask for any other information they require.
DeleteI can watch the film of The Railway Children over, and over again. I actually watched it again not that very long ago. I always have a sob when I see my all-time favourite scene in this lovely and heartfelt film. This is when the steam and smoke clears away and Bobby says - "Daddy, my Daddy".
ReplyDeleteI have just realised that I also have posted about my most memorable parth of the Railway Children.
ReplyDeleteI think that this shows that we are very similar.
PS I heard David Troughton in Van de Valk today but I could not recognise him as Tony.
I am so enjoying the lovely priveledge, of seeing both Sir Michael Caine and Twiggy on The One Show. They both look so fit and healthy and I am enjoying the very many memories that they ate provocing for me.
ReplyDeleteAs to TA, I will have to download and listen to it much later.
A few typos - sorry!
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ReplyDeleteLanJan I have my spiel ready for Mr Mair just need a time and email address.
Will be out till about 9 in the morning then should be in all w/e
Have included my stats for the 21st and added new blog radioCymru opened as far as my Welsh allows on the l3 April. The only comment will be mine when it has passed moderation. It only says thank you so nothing to complain of there. There are 10 headings to write under. What a complete and utter farce.
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ReplyDeleteHi Cowgirl and others interested .
This is just a suggestion .
Let's get the Bank Holiday over first.
How about we contact Eddie Mair on Tuesday?
Not sure of the email address but have time to look it up.
(I have to say that I was not convinced that someone who works for the BBC would be prepared to air our views -Feedback wouldn't -but it is worth a try.
It would be nice to think that others will join us.
Perhaps The Silent Three School Friend in the 1950s ),The Fab Four ,The Famous Five,The six proud Walkers ,The Secret Seven .........
If you would be happy to add your four pennorth would you like to indicate below with a ✔️please?
You don't need to say much.
It would be great if we could inundate the programme with our emails.
Surely then Somebody will take notice.
YES cant do ticks!
Delete😁✔️
DeleteIf someone lets me know how to contact him I will. I can't do ticks either!
DeleteOhh, yes, Yes, YES.
DeleteLanJan I did a reply to your 23 may 8.19a.m. question but you may have done it by now.
ReplyDeleteJanice May 24, 2018 at 12:25 PM - you are so clever!
ReplyDeleteBeen so busy today just catching up with blog reading. So glad there are others who like Muppets Christmas Carol!
ReplyDeleteBLOG I posted on the About the BBC blog 18 -25 May saying how much I enjoyed A Very British Scandal and did not mention TA at all. It instantly went to moderation and is now reinstated. I have just posted one sentence saying I wondered why this had happened as it was totally on topic. This has also gone to moderation! They are gunning for us!
ReplyDeleteSorry, it’s a very English scandal! My latter post is back!
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DeleteThis will happen every time you post. you are on the list but not yet banned.All on topics will be reinstated others removed. I have posted the most ridiculous comment without mentioning the Archers, but referring to the programme and it passed. Clearly moderation isn't working.
DeleteBlog. I have just had another email informing me that my comment on the BBC Hearing Voices programme was removed. I posted that one over a week ago.
ReplyDeleteAgree 100% Miriam re Railway Children comment. My other much loved films are:-
ReplyDeleteGuess who's coming to dinner - fantastic cast, laughter & tears a plenty...
Barefoot in the park - for laughter...
Rebecca ( Black & White version ) that Mrs Danvers ��
Whenever I use emojis on here they come out as question marks.......!
ReplyDeleteMy pick of the week on The BBC was 'A Very English Scandal. It is absolutely terrific and the acting was brilliant, can't wait for the next episode on Sunday. It certainly demonstrates the the imperiousness of the political establishment, who in the shape of J Thorpe thought they were immune to what was expected of everyone else. Public school buddies covering up and lying for each other.
ReplyDeleteNo social network to bother them, and that was not that long ago.
The weather here is awful, good for the allotment but not for any other out door activity.
MrsP. I am going to looks for some bargains at the Antiques centre in Tweksbury, to while away an afternoon. At least they have a cafe.
I envy you being able to get out Stasia.
DeleteAfter nine weeks of not driving, I collected my car from a friends drive last Tuesday evening. The car went in for service on Monday.
It has an electrical fault on an airbag and the part will not be available in the U.K. Until the 12 of June.
So I am now stuck without transport for another few weeks.
Buses services very limited.
Cabin Fever continues !
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ReplyDelete(SwearWord) Just changed my Email address and details and they are still sending me immediately to moderation. Presumably from the same computer? I don't understand these things. What a waste of time.
It is only to ascertain, as a new poster, that you are genuine and not a "robot". Your post will reappear. It is normal BBC practice.
DeleteNo, they have removed 1 post which was similar to one I had previously written and another has gone for what they call further consideration.I think they object to my name Whyclosethearhersblog, I wait and see
DeleteLady R - are you adding emojis from a computer? I have the same problem as it appears Windows or the operating system you using does not support the emojis. When I add emojis from from my iPad, they come out fine.
ReplyDeleteI can only use emojis when I use my smart phone, but I resist using them on this, your wonderful Archers site (apart from an occasionsal thumbs up) I am also on Windows 10.
DeleteNo Ruthy not a computer an iPad ! Mind I need to replcae it soon I think (and then combine it with a new phone) iOS is not the very latest one now so probably that is it. Thank you for trying to help though and also for you wonderful blogs and lead photos, they are always gorgeous / interesting.
ReplyDeleteI am not writing the word beginning with b and ending with g because I would like you all to read this please.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment it looks as if 5 of us will email the p.m. programme whose email address is
pm@bbc.co.uk
Please Email the programme. Please include a daytime telephone number at which they may contact you. Please note, although they read every e-mail and letter they receive, they cannot reply to them all.!!!!
I realise that many folk don't have the time to do what we five intend doing but wondered if perhaps some of you might just email a sentence about losing our blog perhaps asking why the BBC stopped the Archers blog yet continued to produce blogs on other sites that were rarely if ever used or ask how much money was being saved or how much you miss the interaction with other listeners.
Anything really so that they know how we feel
If they suddenly got an influx of emails maybe it might do some good.
Mrs P has faith in Eddie Mair.
I am not so sure but am prepared to give him a go.
Are we still going ahead on Tuesday then?
We have nothing to lose .
Cow Girl has got facts and figures.
They won't know about Ruthy's blog so they may wonder how we all decided to send emails on the same day.
(Thanks Janice I scrolled back and saw your comment)
They might know about Ruthy's blog as it was discussed on The Archers' blog
DeleteI doubt if anybody at the BBC ever bothered to read our comments on the Archers blog,Cheshire Cheese.
DeleteI am not sure that I understand why I have to send an e-mail to this address, which is one I do not recognise and who are "we five"?
DeleteI am very anxious about my details being cloned and my bank account being accessed I am extremely carefull.
Will send mine first thing Tuesday morning. Thanks for the e mail address
DeleteMiriam
DeleteMrs P suggested that we could contact Eddie Mair of the radio 4 ,PM programme which is on each weekday evening at 5pm .The email address was given in case people want to contact that programme.
Of course you don't have to email anybody.
Five people were the four people who said that they would contact the programme plus me.
I am hoping that others will email a sentence to the programme but if they don't want to they obviously don't have to.
It wasn't my idea but I am happy to do what I can to try to retrieve our blog.
Miriam,
Don't worry about it.
We will either get our blog back or we won't but whatever happens we will continue to enjoy Ruthy's blog .
Totally agree!
DeleteLady R. I love the film Guess who's Coming to Dinner and I always have a sob. I also like Cary Grant films, especcially - Mr Blandings builds his Dream House, The Philadelphia Story, An Affair to Remember and Father Goose.
ReplyDeleteThe other films I can also watch again and again, are - Roman Holiday, Sabrina (both Audrey Hepburn) and On Golden Pond (Kathryn Hepburn).
I do have a "soft spot" for the films, High Society, West Side Story and The Sound of Music, but I do not know why!
I have two more recentely produced films, which I have had to add to my favourite list. I really love these films as I just love the music - these are "Mama Mia" (Abba music) and "Gnomeo + Juliet ( Elton John music, which includes some very clever change of words in the songs).
DeleteLanjan. I shall email pm. I also think The BBC knows exactly who we are and that we have an Archers blog created by Ruthy. Perhaps Ruthy can tell us if it is possible to read these blogs without having to sign in. I made three comments this morning on the BBC blogs, and all went straight to moderation. Of course,if they are aware, which I'm sure they are, then what notice are they going to take of our protest? They might (who ever THEY are) take the view that as we have this blog there is no need to bring back their own. I am now considering a new conspiracy theory!
ReplyDeleteI found I could read them before I finally managed to work out how to get in. I bet they have read this and now know the intention re emails. Well it is a pity as we will feel we can't talk so freely, but it may let them know we are not giving up so easily.
DeleteMy apologies Cow Girl , I have been try ing to post a very polite comment in Cornish on the Welsh site , but it is refusing to do it, and instead it is just repeating what seems to be your Welsh comment.
Also cow girl re your 5.20 post if they have been reading this they will understand what we are doing.
DeleteWill e mail on Tuesday.
DeleteIf "They" think about us at all which I doubt I reckon we are seen as a minor irritant and will soon give up if we think we can't win.
ReplyDeleteChanging the subject
ReplyDeleteChelsea Flower Show.
Was anybody else disappointed with the coverage on the BBC ?
We saw the large Show Gardens and a few chosen Gold Medal winners in the Flower Marquee but precious little else about the Show itself except for the ubiquitous "Celebrities" who turn up each year for their free day out.
That's what The Flower show has become LanJan, a showcase for mouthy celebrities.
ReplyDeleteWith a touch of gardens thrown in !
I tried watching some of it on my IPad and what I saw was pretty boring apart from the trip to Japan with James whatsisname. That was fascinating.
I went and did half an hour in the garden last night. I've lost count ( at 50 ) of the midge bites on my head. So, full of toxins, I've had a horrible day.
Stasia, did you find anything to take your fancy at the new Antiques centre in Tewksbury.
Would you mind giving me a rough idea where it is. As I now do not have a car for some time, I might take the bus to Glos and then a second bus to T.
Just to ' get out' for a few hours.
Mrs P was to.d by a Greek chap that mossies don’t like the scent of lemon so may be a lemon scented shampoo would stop the bites on the head! At least in this country we know we won’t catch malaria but the itching can drive you mad. I have found AntisanCream quite good for this. Alternatively wear a hat.
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