Not sure Marie Antoinette ever said "let them build fake chairs"

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Oops

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It’s the plot for a French remake of Lovejoy: Amourjoie?

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Questioned by police about the acquisition of properties in France and Portugal worth €1.2m while on an income of about €2,500 a month, the man – who it turned out worked as a handyman in Parisian galleries

Might these revelations cast light (on that other thread) as to why CA is now enquiring into house ownership values?

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I enjoyed that show. Not sure why as there really wasn’t all that much to it drama-wise. :slight_smile:

Just checked and it’s available on DVD but at £120 for the six-series box set I don’t think I will be indulging.

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Catch the repeats on UK Gold.

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Thank you - I don’t have “normal telly” but will poke around in the channels on my LG smart TV and see if Gold is on there. :slight_smile:

ETA: well knock me down with a wombat, all six series are lurking on Freeview Play, in glorious 4:3 ratio standard definition.

With adverts, admittedly.

Though quite likely nostalgia will turn out to not be what it used to be.

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Can I access those online?

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Currently on UK Gold week day afternoon at 1700 French time

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This is the website of the channels that Freeview Play connected me to - I had to sign up for an account to watch but that was free.

(might need a VPN)

C

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A long time ago when I lived in Newcastle city centre myself and a friend went into the Strawberry opposite St James’s Park, one of the several local pubs of the Northern demi-monde. My mate said, “Look who’s there at the bar!” “Lovejoy” I replied confidently. “No, it’s Kevin effin’ Keegan.”

In my defence, I’ve never watched that much TV, and as a Mancunian have never been very interested in ex-footballers from the other end of the former East Lancs Road.

If you don’t understand any of the above please don’t waste time Googling - it’s not that important!

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Thank you very much @ChrisMann. Here’s hoping my vpn will work

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Don’t know what they’re like today, but some of those old UK TV ads today seem quite risquĂ©. There was Fyffe’s ‘unzip a banana’ and as for Cadbury’s ‘finger of fudge etc’, -one blogger has since has suggested ‘that might get you twenty years in the nonce wing.’

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Litotes at its best :wink::grin:

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There were at least two others


Edit: actually I’m being a bit harsh because at that time the ‘local’ non-gallery based art scene was very global and organisations like Projects UK and later Locus+ Locus+ were the inspiration for London’s Artangel .

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It’s still there :grin:. I don’t know anyone who doesn’t still call it the East Lancs, and it’s official name is the Liverpool-East Lancashire road.

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Thanks - not used it since the last century, so assumed it was now an Msomething

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Interestingly, when it was built in the 1930s it was supposed go past North Manchester towards the Yorkshire border and then later on to Hull. The exact route that was taken later to build the M62.
It also had a bicycle lane on both edges of the road :biking_man::biking_woman:

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Also on UK Drama, I think :thinking: