Advantages: fantastic thrilling rhythms, relaxing, some haunting tunes Disadvantages: None
≈♫♪≈♪≈♫♪≈ GROUND FORCE ? BLACKDYKEBAND ≈♫♪≈♪≈♫♪≈
Ground Force has long been one of my favourite TV programmes. With a keen interest in gardening and landscaping there is nothing more enjoyable than sitting down to watch Ground Force.
Imagine if you can take that enjoyment a step further and extend it to times other than when Ground Force is on television. Of course you could go out and buy a few series on DVD????. Or you can buy the soundtrack on CD.
I bought the Ground Force soundtrack around five years ago and it has remained one of my favourite CD?s to listen to, particularly when I am feeling a bit stressed or tired. It is very easy listening and relaxing and at the same time as creating such an air or serenity ...
Advantages: Accessible, beautiful, free Disadvantages: Can get busy in high season
~~~Why Bother Visiting?~~~
Think of Brighton and you think of hens and stags, mods and rockers, pubs and clubs, the Pier and the Pavilion. Yet Brighton is nestled between the sea and the South Downs - the Downs may not compare to Lakeland or Snowdonia, but they are extraordinarily pretty, undulating, English countryside and they offer a welcome and accessible contrast to the noise and pretension of 'London by the Sea'. Devil's dyke is pretty much where Brighton meets the Downs so it's easy to get to (especially in summer when the open top bus is running, more anon), but it's no compromise either - the views and walks here are as good as anywhere on the South Downs.
The view from the car park (and the pub) is extraordinary, with the Weald stretched out endlessly in almost 180°, and yet this is not the Dyke itself. A little walk from ...
Advantages: Interesting look back at classic TV Disadvantages: No special features
The Dick Van Dyke Show was a classic of its kind. Every week people would hurry home to see what shenanigans Dick Van Dyke (Rob Petrie) his wife Laura and their brat sorry! Cute little tyke Ritchie would get up to. It started in 1961 and ran until 1966.
Rob was a writer for a comedy TV show and he shared an office with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie). They worker under the watchful eye of sarcastic programme producer Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) For some reason as a child my favourite character was Mel Cooley. The slightly daffy neighbours Jerry and Millie Helper (Jerry Paris and Ann Morgan Guilbert) also add to the madness.
The series came out before colour television really caught on (even in the USA) so the entire series was filmed in black and white.
At the start of each episode ...
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