What are you watching?

[Daisy]

Hahaha, Gem. I presume there wouldn't be a story line if they just got on with being happy.

[Plantaholic]

A lot of the Netflix dramas are American, my hearing find some of the accents difficult and also there are quite a few dubbed films. Have to have a search through the titles.

[Enfys]

We don’t watch much on ‘normal’ tv, but like The Repair Job, Sewing Bee and usually record Vera. I used to like Emmerdale but don’t like the last week where they have done Lockdown specials. We watch Netflix, especially dramas, detective stories and I’m also working my way through Call the Midwife right from the beginning on IPlayer. P has Spooks on dvd so he’s watching that.

[Daisy]

Enfys - I've been watching the Sewing Bee. Who do you think will win the final next week?

[Gemini]

We are thinking of giving Sewing Bee a go as I had heard it was good.
As I actively dislike sewing ( needlework, PE and maths were my hated subjects at school!) and OH is indifferent about it, it wasn't an obvious choice for us.
Willing to be open minded though 😊

[Enfys]

Daisy, I rather think Nicole will win. She is always very good at the made to measure although I like Clare, is it, the girl who dresses in 1940’s clothes. But really, the last task could change everything.

[Daisy]

I think it will be quite close! I think Clare stands a good chance - she usually stays cool and focussed even when things are going wrong. As you say, it's still all to play for.

[Gemini]

Is anyone watching The Salisbury Poisonings?
We started to watch last night it and are enjoying it.

It must have been scary to live in Salisbury during that time!

[Plantaholic]

Yes I have been watching it, very scary for the people of Salisbury. They are going to be doing another series of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads with different actors and two of them are new, should be worth watching. They were recorded recently in the Elstree Studios with the help of the Eastenders team. They were going to run out of dramas during the Lockdown and as it is just the actor in the studio they were able to achieve it. Well worth watching. There are two on Tues at 9pm and another on Thursday at 7.30

[Gemini]

Oh I will watch those Plant, thanks.

[Daisy]

I haven't watched the Salisbury poisonings but Salisbury is very near to us, so the local news was awash with the events as they happened, and it was quite scary. A bit like the beginning of Covid-19 when everyone was running round wondering what's happening and what the consequences might be. There were lots of rumours and counter-rumours and that awful feeling of possible major disaster looming.

[Gemini]

Daisy, there were overtones of the Covid situation we felt.
We have watched it all now. It was good to see the real characters at the end and hear how life had gone for them since the incident.

[Daisy]

Did the tv programme also include the lady who died some time later?

[Gemini]

Only one person died, I'm not sure how much later it was, or if it is the lady you were thinking of Daisy?
Her partner found a perfume bottle in a skip or bin. He took it home and gave it to her, and she sprayed it in her wrists. She became very ill and subsequently died. (Spoiler alert if you are watching this programme!!)
Her partner was very ill but survived as he didn't have the stuff on him. All very sad.

[Daisy]

Yes, that was who I was thinking of. It was very odd about that perfume bottle, and I've always wondered if there was more to it than we knew.