I don’t know folks are things REALLY ever as they seem in the movies or TV shows? I watch some shows and there seems to be some idealistic place with colourful friendly characters that I would love to move to. I have seen/and still watch stuff like:- “Northern Exposure,” “Local Hero,” “Hamish Macbeth,” and think that I would love to pack my bag (yes bag-I don’t need much) and retreat to one of these wonderful little places where I will be welcomed with open arms and hugs that are as good as Carolyn’s . Take it from me folks Carolyn gives REALLY good hugs.SOOO good you don’t want to let go.And it is a let down when she lets go-cos there is no way that I want to let go first!!Yeah my idea of heaven would have to include a hug from Carolyn.
Even in the soaps new characters
just walk into the local grotty pub and before closing time they are bosom
buddies with practically everybody.
Yeah,my dream location is a small village with no wi-fi ANYWHERE, No
television. You have to make an eight mile trip for any internet connection. A radio
station like KBHR in Northern Exposure.
I would love to do a show like Chris in the Morning. I could call it Gerdy
Rambles On. I would also need a Maggie character too, someone I would call by
her surname and she too would call me by my surname and we would have the whole
love hate relationship and people would be wondering about the whole are
they/aren’t they-will they/won’t they thing.
Back to “local hero” I like the
idea of the weekly Ceilidh for the trad music and characters at it.
Of course today in the real world
it doesn’t quite work like that. I would be treated with some suspicion and it
would take a while before I would be accepted by the community-pity.
But knowing MY luck the place that
I land in would be like Sumerisle , or
even like “the village” in “The
Prisoner” or even Royston Vassey (can anybody
remember that show without going into a
search engine-I remembered the show but had to search on the village name).
So
is that too much to ask for? A hugger like Carolyn, a sparring partner like
O’Connell, KBHR,no wi-fi and friendly colourful people, weekly Ceilidh, OH! And the phone box like in “Local Hero” and
Jenny Seagrove in the wet suit too… and a hugger like Carolyn (I know, I know !! but boys do I miss her hugs). Cue the music from “Local Hero” and picture of the village
with the phone in the phone box ringing…
Agree, those shows always have charm and appeal b/c of the sense of community they portray. I think that can be found in the real world but generally requires a bit more effort and time-on-target than it does on screen. Seems to me you have the small community, no wi-fi thing within reach there in Ireland, or at least in Scotland. Again, the romantic sensibilities of those remote places, just like in Northern Exposure.
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