For those who may not have noticed BBC4 are repeating the first series of "A very peculiar practice" this week. Unfortunately I didn't realise until I channel-hopped in on the end of one of the episodes yesterday night. However, there's 3 more episodes this evening from 10:40 onwards. For the pikeys without digital TV there's always sitting around the piano having a good ol' fashioned sing-song. For those too young to remember AVPP from its first time around, watch and learn. For those too young and too pikey ... well, there's just no hope for you, really. Hang on, got to go - there's a couple of nuns going through my bins. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
Never saw the whole series, although I did appear ever so briefly as an extra in a lecture theatre scene - much of it was filmed in and around Birmingham University during my final year. Cheers
Well there you go, I was just wondering last night which Uni they filmed it at and now I know. In't ukrm amazing, eh? -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
It's stood the test of time pretty well, too. Watching last night I still found it genuinely funny, strange and very enjoyable. -- AndrewR, D.Bot (Celeritas) Kawasaki ZX-6R J1 BOTAFOT#2,ITJWTFO#6,UKRMRM#1/13a,MCT#1,DFV#2,SKoGA#0 (and KotL) BotToS#5,SBS#25,IbW#34, TEAR#3 (and KotL), DS#5, Keeper of the TFSTR# The speccy Geordie twat.
I only spotted that today, aamof. Given that I just reread the book a couple of weeks ago, it ties in nicely. With any luck, "A most peculiar practice" might be on sometime soon. -- Dave GS 850 x2 / SE 6a SbS#6 DIAABTCOD#16 APOSTLE#16? FUB#3 FUB KotL OSOS#12? UKRMMA#19
Well, you know half of it. It was Birmingham and Keele. Quite a few of the scenes from Birmingham were taken around the Metallurgy Department I used to attend....occasionally.
And "Elec Eng" and also the Gunbarrels pub on Bristol Rd/Edgbaston Park Road. I used to attend the Guild more regularly than Elec Eng! Cheers
When I ordered it back in August it was due for release in October. Then it was November. Then it was early January. Any advance on 20th January?
It was released on video or DVD a year or two ago, but from such an obscure source I couldn't get one. Bugger!!! But the second series hasn't been re-played or released. GRRRRRRR! -- Dave OSOS#24 Remove my gerbil for email replies Yamaha XJ900S & Wessex sidecar, the sexy one Yamaha XJ900F & Watsonian Monaco, the comfortable one http://dswindell.members.beeb.net
I remember. 'Leccy Eng was the building with the huge (non-functional?) dish on top. I was told that they put the dish up and then found that vibration from the railway just down the road made it NFG. Is that true? -- Chris H, CBR600Fi, two#55 Please remove veg to reply ps I attended the Guild bars between 85 and 88.
A nephew of mine who goes to BU was subject of an attempted mugging just before Xmas. Three somewhat larger guys (hooded sweat shirts etc) cornered him and demanded his money and his mobile phone or he'd get cut. The second mistake one of the guys made was to reach out for him. The reacher was decked unconscious. My nephew then asked which had the knife as he wanted to break their arms so they couldn't use it. They ran away. Nephew is one very skilled multi-belted marshal arts exponent. I hope these arse holes learnt something.
That's right, the Gisbert Krapp building.... ooops, superfluos "r" there. The dish has been functional in the past but during my time at Brum (82-86) it was taken out of service for a major overhaul and upgrade of the signal wiring. Whether or not its ever got back into commission I don't know. I never heard the rumour about the vibration, but there were a couple floating about in my day about the (in)competence of the civil engineers! 1985 was my second second year (not a stutter!) and I was to be found floating mainly aorund GTV & Stage Staff in Guild making much use of the Cellar & Mermaid bars with catering by McDochertys (YUK!!!!). Cheers
