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BBC One - When I Get Older

think this is going to be a programme that requires a box of tissues beside me.
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Betty Boop;1398317 wrote: BBC One - When I Get Older

think this is going to be a programme that requires a box of tissues beside me.


Gloria Huniford doesn't look any younger than the pensioner she's moving in with!
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Bryn Mawr;1398319 wrote: Gloria Huniford doesn't look any younger than the pensioner she's moving in with!
Umm... because she's 72?
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spot;1398323 wrote: Umm... because she's 72?


Oops- whoda thunk it
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This may be the wrong moment to ask but who is Gloria Hunniford?
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spot;1398326 wrote: This may be the wrong moment to ask but who is Gloria Hunniford?


It is - she's been around for years :p
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Bryn Mawr;1398327 wrote: It is - she's been around for years :pI'll go back a few years and ask again then.
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spot;1398330 wrote: I'll go back a few years and ask again then.


TV presenter of news and current affairs programs
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:wah: dear me you two!

What a lovely programme tonight, made my eyes very wet though. Not sure the next one is going to be as positive.
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Bryn Mawr;1398333 wrote: TV presenter of news and current affairs programs


And mother of Caron Keating.
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Betty Boop;1398335 wrote: And mother of Caron Keating.


Who?
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Bryn Mawr;1398337 wrote: Who?


You're all just showing your age now, I guess I remember her from presenting Blue Peter when I was a teen. She sadly passed away from cancer in 2004.

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Betty Boop;1398339 wrote: You're all just showing your age now, I guess I remember her from presenting Blue Peter when I was a teen. She sadly passed away from cancer in 2004.

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That cannot be so - Blue Peter was Peter Purvis, Val Simgleton and John Noaks, not forgetting Shep the dog.
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Sadly, we can't watch it outside the UK yet. It looks like an interesting program.

Betty Boop;1398339 wrote: I guess I remember her from presenting Blue Peter when I was a teen.
Is that slang for something? :sneaky:
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Accountable;1398363 wrote: Sadly, we can't watch it outside the UK yet. It looks like an interesting program.



Is that slang for something? :sneaky:


You're thinking thats slang for schlong, right?
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Bryn Mawr;1398341 wrote: That cannot be so - Blue Peter was Peter Purvis, Val Simgleton and John Noaks, not forgetting Shep the dog.


For those that get the obscure allusion. :yh_wink
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Accountable;1398385 wrote:



For those that get the obscure allusion. :yh_wink


That's me totally lost :wah:

Second part on tonight, the famous pensioners are each moving into care homes.
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Betty Boop;1398392 wrote: That's me totally lost :wah:
A still from a film called Analyse This, though I'm not sure what it means in context.
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It seems quite obvious that these homes they are visiting are the creme de la creme of care homes. I'd be surprised if they are state run.
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Betty Boop;1398398 wrote: It seems quite obvious that these homes they are visiting are the creme de la creme of care homes. I'd be surprised if they are state run.


The first three most definitely seem "better" than average.
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theia;1398399 wrote: The first three most definitely seem "better" than average.


Don't they just, thought it was great that Tony Robinson took the old boys down the pub :wah:

Leslie's seems the worst place to be.
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My mum is 80 this year and bless her she's suddenly going downhill. It's hard to believe that it was only a while ago she had major heart surgery and bounced back so well. Last year she had a fall whilst out walking and it's that that seems to have knocked her confidence and prompted her to really deteriorate. She's shuffling and her balance is appalling to the point that when out and about we're constantly grabbing hold of her and keeping her steady. Any suggestion of a stick or a frame is met with disdain, she told me the other day to stop fussing, and she's 'old, but not that old' :wah: I did laugh and ask her when would she thought she would be old enough for a stick then :rolleyes:
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My daughter just recommended one to me not half an hour ago, heartless brute. I was hanging up my washing at the time. I think I hit a scavenging record under my bed, I've eight underwears drying and I'm sure I've not seen that many together in years.
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Betty Boop;1398400 wrote: Don't they just, thought it was great that Tony Robinson took the old boys down the pub :wah:

Leslie's seems the worst place to be.


The only home where fees were mentioned...£464 per week (the very minimum), paid for by the council
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theia;1398405 wrote: The only home where fees were mentioned...£464 per week (the very minimum), paid for by the council


It's a startling sum when you consider that the Basic State Pension for a single person with full contributions is "a flat rate of £107.45 a week (2012-13)", the two numbers belong to different worlds.
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