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Re: Nuts In May.....
Posted by **Spiggy Topes** on Aug 21, 2013 at 10:29:46 AM:
In Reply to: Re: Nuts In May..... posted by **Spiggy Topes** on Aug 21, 2013 at 10:26:07 AM:
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*****A middle-class couple go camping in Dorset, but peace and quiet elude them.
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*****(I didn't make this but by golly I wish I did)
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*****Their Morris packed to the gills, the punctilious Keith and the more spontaneous Candice-Marie arrive at a Dorset campground where they pay £10 in advance for ten nights. It's peaceful: they visit Corfe Castle, eat vegetarian food, and go in search of raw milk. Then a fellow with a loud radio pitches his tent near theirs: Keith is beside himself and it doesn't help when Candice-Marie decides to befriend the young man. Things get worse when a couple arrive on a motorcycle, make noisy love in their tent, and then start an illegal campfire. It's too much for Keith: he loses it. Will our middle-class couple find a bucolic corner, or are they doomed to brawl with the noisy and unwashed?
*****Director: Mike Leigh
*****Writer: Mike Leigh (deviser)
*****Stars: Roger Sloman, Alison Steadman and Anthony O'Donnell
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*****#Another absolutely brilliant BBC 1976 production from Mike Leigh, master of social commentary.....
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*****Alison Steadman is superb......
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****I've been to Corfe - stunning........
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***Glad you enjoyed, never been that way myself.....roundabouts, New Forrest and Lyme Regis....very lucky to live in this green and pleasant land.
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***Did you watch the play, if you;ve got the time you should, highly entertaining.
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**When I was living in "the Kingdom" for a short period of time (6/7 months) in the early '80's I was staying in Bournemouthin Dorset.
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**Which by the "In a 2007 survey by First Direct, Bournemouth was found to be the happiest place in the UK, with 82% of people questioned saying they were happy with their lives."
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**Weekends were mine - so on many of them I'd hop in the auto & go "parading" through the gorgeous British countryside.
**No destination in mind - just start driving & enjoying the scenery.
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**Never used a map on the "outbound" part of the journey. Definitely had to use in to get back though. Most of the time I had no real idea of where I'd end up & had to use it to find my way back.
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**Spent quite a few Sundays in Poole which nearby Bournemouth. Pleasant & scenic town for walking ("parading") around in. Especially if the weather was decent.
**There was a bar/pub/restaurant where I'd like to stop into. Pull a few pints & grab something to eat. It was right on the water. Don't remember the name...
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**Nice way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
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**What was I talking about again?
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**Corfe.
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**So.
**On one of those weekend jaunts - not knowing where I was headed nor where I was (ended up a Royal Navy Base outside of Portsmouth once) - enjoying the sights - I came around a bend & saw this on the horizon.
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**"Neat!!"
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**I began steering toward it & that's when I found Corfe. Lovely little town nestled on/within the ruins walls. Spent the day & that night there.
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**You should make the attempt to visit. Very nice way to kill a Sunday.
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*Sounds and looks like it would be.
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*Trouble is of course, would take me about 5 hours to drive there, so I don't think I would make it to kill a Sunday....lol
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*If I'm ever down that neck of the woods for whatever reason tho' I'll keep your recommendation in mind.....
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*Spiggy
Meant to say also, Poole is where John's Aunt Mimi lived.....did you check that out at all, her house I mean?....don't think she would have accepted visitors, but you could have driven past.
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