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Post by marion on Dec 12, 2019 16:25:24 GMT
Jolly good. Although it didn't seem particularly secret to me last series, it was very enjoyable.
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Post by Delia on Dec 12, 2019 22:49:56 GMT
Thanks for the tip off. Looking forward to more of the same.
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Post by Delia on Jan 8, 2020 15:28:03 GMT
Susan is still giggling, and busy travelling around Scotland in this new series. Very entertaining still, and they spend just enough time on each item to be interesting.
She will have a go at anything! - including, of course dancing at Balmoral Castle (after acquitting herself very well on Strictly a couple of series ago, she is fearless)
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Post by sootycat on Jan 8, 2020 16:17:14 GMT
I do like Susan, she is very likeable and brings enthusiasm to everything she does...she also loves cats
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Post by linseed on Jan 8, 2020 17:49:28 GMT
I love this series too - Susan is just so enthusiastic, and the scenery is wonderful!
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Post by monic on Jan 17, 2020 20:49:17 GMT
Susan is in Glasgow this week and the results are hysterical. Glasgow Cathedral - Susan leaves her mark Chicken Tika Masala - shes cooking On the Subway The oldest Theatre in the World where Stan Laurel debuted The Pollock Park - to wash the Highland Coo's - typically called Susan - this is where she has the most fun Now she's in the Irn Bru factory trying to get the secrets from Mr Barr Either Susan is very short or he is 6ft 6.
I love this as it just makes you laugh and is inoffensive
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Post by geometryman on Jan 18, 2020 9:24:38 GMT
She's as entertaining as ever, and I thought this Glasgow episode was the best of the series so far. There was a hell of a height difference, at least 2 feet! Perhaps he was standing on something. Don''t know whether I should admit to this, but I can't stand Irn Bru, and from the way she tasted it I think Susan isn't too keen on it either. It's No. 2 on my list of unfavourite fizzy drinks.* (* No. 1 is root beer).
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 18, 2020 10:16:59 GMT
I don't like Irn Bru either, which I realise is tantamount to treason from a Scot. In one of Michael Portillos's railway journeys he visited the same, and I think it's the only time I've seen him not sampling the local produce on his travels! (More likely that he did and it was cut for editorial reasons but it did make me smile at the time.) Never mind, our other national drink is much more quaffable!
She's 4' 11" according to her IMDB entry.
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Post by linseed on Jan 18, 2020 10:27:34 GMT
I’m with you on your number 1 unfavourite fizzy drink GM. Root beer reminds me of dental mouthwash. Not massively keen on Irn Bru (my spell check wanted to call this Iran Bro), but it’s brilliant if you want to keep awake at night because you have course work to hand in the next morning!
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Post by Delia on Jan 18, 2020 16:02:52 GMT
Not keen on Irun Bru myself, but then, I've gone off C. Cola after drinking it for about 50 years. Maybe taste buds change.
I know Susan is short, but we both thought that the guy looked to be at least 6ft 7" - a rather hilarious result on screen!
Never been to Glasgow, so was interested to see it from her point of view. It looked interesting rather than the dreary place usually shown on The News.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 18, 2020 17:56:11 GMT
Ooh! Touched a nerve there Delia. It's true it is often described as such by lazy journalists who can't be bothered to do their research. Glasgow is as multifaceted as all large cities with a long history; it was known as the second city of Empire (not something to brag about now, especially as the wealth came from tobacco trading and, later, heavy industry, most notably shipbuilding). The city centre has stunning architecture built from the local blond sandstone. It has a more recent history of gangland violence and the so-called 'Glasgow effect' which has led to its dubious record of having the lowest life expectancy in the UK in deprived parts of the city. At the same time it's the home of Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, RSAMDA (Scottish equivalent of RADA), the School of Art that was so sadly devastated twice by fire, etc etc. So it does have a lot going for it, it's not all gloom and doom. It was rejuvenated firstly by the Glasgow Garden Festival that put much of the disused shipyard acreage to good use, a massive programme of stone-cleaning and then by being the European City of Culture (amid much sneering from elsewhere). There's an interesting article here in the Scotsman (an Edinburgh paper, so not with any axe to grind!) about the effect its stint as City of Culture had: www.scotsman.com/lifestyle-2-15039/insight-glasgow-city-of-culture-25-years-on-1-3899379.
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Post by Delia on Jan 19, 2020 9:06:53 GMT
Thanks for that link: I suppose it's rather like Liverpool, near to where I lived once, and had bad connotations, but was still much loved by its own inhabitants.
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Post by goodhelenstar on Jan 19, 2020 9:56:48 GMT
Yes, I haven't spent much time in Liverpool but often visited one of my schoolfriends who lived there for a number of years and found similarities in people and culture. Similar maritime history too.
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Post by Delia on Jan 19, 2020 16:36:12 GMT
Warm, funny and welcoming people, the Liverpudlians.
Nearly married one, he made me laugh so much, but turned him down as we were so young at the time, and he's a millionaire now! So a bad decision on my part, I guess!!
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Post by geometryman on Sept 8, 2020 17:52:13 GMT
New 10-episode third series starts on Friday 18 Sep, 8.00 pm Channel 5.
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