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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Started conversation Jan 20, 2009
who can tell me
Whos books was the insperation for the tv sreies "alll creatures great and small"?
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Jan 20, 2009
Alf ... something beginning with G if I remember right.
TRiG.
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TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office Posted Jan 20, 2009
Garnet? Or am I thinking of someone else?
His friends knew him for his skill at wrapping cats.
TRiG.
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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 20, 2009
close but not to close
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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 20, 2009
nope you've lost it
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Jan 20, 2009
Alf Garnett is someone else entirely.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alf_Garnett
RF
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Icy North Posted Jan 20, 2009
It was Wight or Wright (can't remember which).
Even though he was Scottish, film-makers always seem to cast him as English.
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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 20, 2009
oh! so close!
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A Super Furry Animal Posted Jan 20, 2009
His real name was Wight, but he wrote under the name James Herriot.
RF
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jan 20, 2009
James Herriott was the character he used to portray himself 
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bobstafford Posted Jan 20, 2009
I think he was called James Alfred Wight the only way I recall it is its the same spelling as the Isle of Wight.
And I must admit I owe Alfred to TRiG
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jan 20, 2009
Oh! Simpost RF!
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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 20, 2009
correct 3+ you avoided the 
James Alfred Wight OBE wrote under the pen name of James Herriot
does anyone have any interesting facts about J.A.Wight
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bobstafford Posted Jan 20, 2009
When they cast the programme the actress playing Mrs Herriot was almost an exact double for the real Mrs Wight it made news when it was discovered.
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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 20, 2009
i believe bob should get the points as he was the first to mention J.A.Wights full name first
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Icy North Posted Jan 20, 2009
It's your call, Kipper.
An episode in one of his books inspired my entry on Saying Grace in Latin: A21776754
He used the names of animal diseases, like 'brucelosis'.
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kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? Posted Jan 20, 2009
so the scores
bob +3
question 2
what is Darrowby based on?
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jan 20, 2009
Helen Herriott was played by Carol Drinkwater and then Belinda Bellingham, who, due to being pregnant, played an entire series in bed with a bad back.
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Icy North Posted Jan 20, 2009
Linda Bellingham was the Oxo Mum:
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/08_02/oxoDM1908_468x347.jpg
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lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned Posted Jan 20, 2009
While filming of the series Christopher Timothy broke his leg. He's had a limp ever since.
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- 1: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 2: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Jan 20, 2009)
- 3: TRiG (Ireland) A dog, so bade in office (Jan 20, 2009)
- 4: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 5: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 6: A Super Furry Animal (Jan 20, 2009)
- 7: Icy North (Jan 20, 2009)
- 8: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 9: A Super Furry Animal (Jan 20, 2009)
- 10: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Jan 20, 2009)
- 11: bobstafford (Jan 20, 2009)
- 12: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Jan 20, 2009)
- 13: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 14: bobstafford (Jan 20, 2009)
- 15: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 16: Icy North (Jan 20, 2009)
- 17: kipperonthefloor - Make sense? What fun is there in Making sense? (Jan 20, 2009)
- 18: lil ~ Auntie Giggles with added login ~ returned (Jan 20, 2009)
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