Here it comes, for the fifth but hopefully not last time:

Joyful Molly’s traditional Yuletide Contest!

Supervised by Mr and Mrs Snowman, this is your chance to win a most splendid Christmas parcel!

“Pray tell, what may we win?”

CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT!

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Time to dry your tears, my friends: thanks to BBC4, you can now enjoy once more all series and episodes of the wonderful 18th century drama “Garrow’s Law”, featuring the very lovely Andrew Buchan. Yes, I know, this was a long sentence, but never shortcut a lawyer. Repeats will start on 20th June, 2012, 10pm!

GARROW’S LAW


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I return from the cinema (Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy - excellent, highly recommended!) to find the news in my mailbox that my beloved Garrow's Law has been axed.

While I’m aware that the source for this devastating news is The Sun and therefore everything has to be taken with at least four grains of salt, I still have to say

CURSE YOU, BBC!
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Good things first: SOPA / PIPA have been shelved for now. So I guess Blackout Day did what it was supposed to do: rising awareness. Just because you and I know what SOPA is doesn't mean your average US senator does. We all know that bill will be repainted and then put in a glitzy box to be hawked out again, but we'll cross that bridge once we' ( Read more... )

Mark Pallis posted regarding the fate of a fourth series for “Garrow’s Law”,
“according to a recent statement from the BBC, the “jury’s still out”.
Well then, let’s get the jury back in, on our side and a fourth series coming!

You can either make yourself heard on the BBC’s POV messageboard or to email them: pov@bbc.co.uk

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I finally found a solution for the "cats + christmas don't mix" problem. A thin chain across the room, out of harm's and cats' way, yet still easy to decorate, and come next year, I can still use it to hang up postcards etc.

Did I say "easy" to decorate? Hahaha! OK, imagine getting the chain up, 3.50m garland wrapped around it and then the baubles ( Read more... )

Police brutality and election rigging - such fascinating subjects, especially in the week before the elections in Russia. But what we really want to know is: will there be a happy end for Mr. Garrow and Lady Sarah? Will baby Samuel return to his mother? Can George fill his uncle’s splendid shoes? And will there be a fourth series of “Garrow’s Law”?
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after this last episode of series 3 of "garrow's law", I just have to declare andrew buchan king of television.


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People are very much like scratchcards. If you scratch off the latex, you might be lucky and find a fortune, but more often than not, you’ll be disappointed. And if you scratch the thin veneer of civilisation off a man, you might find someone like Sir Thomas Picton. Yes, that Thomas Picton, of Waterloo fame, previously of Trinidad notority, where ( Read more... )

Smell that? Lovely, isn’t it. I’m cooking chicken soup for Mr. Southouse (Alun Armstrong), you see. I also put the poker in the fire; the man looks like he could do with some mulled wine.

But more about that later. Ghastly goings-on in Spitalfields! Rioters are raiding their local Comet for the latest iPhone, Nike sneakers and flat screen TVs!


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