General Chat

Where I grew up, there had been a Canadian base in the war and there were supposedly a lot of girls who did their bit for international relations - must have been very exciting for such a small place. A relation of mine married a French Canadian and that worked out well but there were several babies left behind:)

Janey, who needs a teenager when we've got BBC iplayer ;) lol

We've had a rerun of the series lately :)

Good to see you around Uggers :)

I think they all had more money than our poor Tommy's Rita!, and it seems things never change......my nephew in Afghan even has to fork out for a decent pillow to sleep on! He spends time in the US Naffi....I wonder why??????

Annx

Hello again Rita,

Pillows are the least of their problems regarding shortages, it really is terrible that they do not have sufficient clothing etc.

He will be home for xmas, and I hope this will be his last tour, he is only 20 years old and it worries me sick each times he is out there.

How brave the mothers, wives and girlfriends were in WW1 & WW2 not seeing their men for years.......no telephone internet etc.

It is a frozen wasteland here in Wales........truly perishing weather!

Annx

Janey, Due South is on Sky television at the moment, we have been watching it again, mainly I must say, to watch Diefenbaker at work, Reminds us of a dog we once had.
My grandmother became a Canadian war bride in the early twenties. Janey kindle helped me find out some of her journey.

Jean, I must admit Diefenbaker is the highlight of the show for me too :)

Well I'm glad you're getting the chance to watch Due South! It's a show for all ages -- me, my mum and both my grandmothers were all devotees. ;)

Some of the Canadian humour will go over your heads through no fault of your own. It did the audience in the US -- for the first few years, it was a coproduction with a US network, but they never quite got it there -- either the type of humour, since it takes a while to figure out that some of it isn't meant to be serious, which you guys will get more of course, or the particular cultural references.

For instance -- we all know who Diefenbaker is named for, right? (I think there were 3 Diefenbakers over the course of the show.)

And there's a character for a bit called Mackenzie King, I think she's a journalist. Probably the younger Canadians didn't get that one, either. ;)

You'll all be happy to hear it's pretty cold here right now, too, and there's snow as of two days ago.