What's on the box

[Barbara]

I have really enjoyed ''the pact'' anyone else watched it ?

[Barbara]

Only connect is back tonight.

[Barbara]

Call the midwife ended better than I thought it would, I feared the worst at one point, but I can live without drama like that.

[Jasmine]

It was a bit edge of the seat but as someone said onbthe CTM spoiler groups, the writer of the series was never going to write her husband out of the show! It was very clever how they wove the young girl's still born baby being able to be buried with the tea lady, imagine rules that didn't allow you to see your little one or bury them in consecrated ground.

[Barbara]

My brother died at 2 hours old Jasmine, he was put into a coffin with a man was all Mum was told

[Jasmine]

I just think that's heartbreaking Barbara, but then so much was at that time. I suppose they thought they were doing the best thing by taking the baby away straight away.

[Barbara]

We have watched ''Emergency'' on channel 4 all week, the NHS at it's very very best, some heart breaking stories though.

[doghouseriley]

I like watching tennis on TV when it's on.

I'm presently watching the Nottingham Open where young Harriet Dart has just put out the No1 seed Camila Giorgi (#2her mother makes all her outfits."well her company does).

Harriet was down 5-6 and 0-40, in the third, but saved all the match points and won 7-3 in the tie-break. She's now made the quarter-final

Roland Garros had its moments last week for some.

But maybe not for others, I took these photos from my recording on the TV and posted them on a meme thread on an audio-visual message board.
An exciting moment for spectators in today's French Open Tennis semi-final, as Marin Cilic is about to serve to Casper Ruud.








It's the same with many sports. The best seats are often "corporate," so businesses give them to their customers, for many of whom, "just to say they were there," is as much interest as they can muster.

[Barbara]

Panorama on Monday night, I felt frightened for the first time in a long time, 'operose' owning GP practices, GP's letting untrained  assistants  see patients, and others checking medical records are using google to see how serious cases are .

[doghouseriley]

Jun 15, 2022 13:43:00 GMT Barbara said:

Panorama on Monday night, I felt frightened for the first time in a long time, 'operose' owning GP practices, GP's letting untrained  assistants  see patients, and others checking medical records are using google to see how serious cases are .

The situation here in Trafford is ridiculous. To get an appointment you have to phone bang on 8.00am on a weekday morning. On-line "patient access" has been discontinued. You can't book one by going into the surgery.

You're lucky if you can get through, then the appointment with your own doctor might be weeks ahead. Mine only works two mornings a week. It's a "health centre" with far too many patients, since it took a few thousand from another centre that closed. Lots of strange faces.

The NHS is going to hell in a handcart. Our son's partner has been a senior nurse for  twenty years at the MRI and has reduced her hours to three days a week, because she dislikes it so much.

Our daughter trained at GOS.  She later moved to St Mary's and was responsible for a ward, all meningitis cases.

Clean uniforms and scrubs when necessary provided every day and she had her own locker.

She eventually packed it in as the workload kept increasing.

Son's partner has to wash her own uniform and has no locker.

Nothing much changes it's a couple of decades ago, but our daughter had to do a fortnight's training  at another hospital in accident and emergency admissions. On her first day, an accident victim came in and three young doctors were around him deciding what to do. She pushed past them saying. "How about if we get him breathing first?"

You take pot luck now if you have to go to hospital.

[Barbara]

GBBO is back this week, I love autumn programmes like this and strictly.

[doghouseriley]

I'm watching less and less live TV.

The dramas are often depressing. I stopped watching Shetland, the lead character I found too depressing and the plot boring, the action seemed mostly shot through a blue filter which will have done nothing for the island's tourist industry.

Fortunately I've a lot of classic films including a host of "film noir" and dramas recorded on a couple of Humax tuner/recorders and a Virgin Tivo box. So tend to often watch those.

Currently Channel 5 are repeating (again) Jesse Stone series at lunchtimes on Saturdays.

I must have watched it several times over the years.





and If this comes round again it's worth watching, I've the box set of DVDs.

Although their relationship, is a "sub plot" people became invested in the characters.

Then there's my favourite contemporary film. I watch it at least once a year.
So many sub plot stories and a great cast. Repeated on some channel every couple years.



This film was made in 1996, Sad that Elizabeth Pena who featured in dozens of films, died in 2014.