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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 146292" data-attributes="member: 23">Taking a four month break randomly in the middle of a run is always a little risky. It was mid-series and mid-disc. Fortunately I knew which disc, as I left it in the player during a bit of a sabbatical from watching. But as I watched the first few episodes it highlighted the latter series&#039; more humdrum nature. Most of it seemed familiar and there was an occasional fragment of awareness that I&#039;d previously watched a scene, but for much of the time I couldn&#039;t tell if the familiarity came from the running gags and recurring storylines.Anyway, I&#039;ve now finished the disc in question and so I&#039;m definitely on to new ground. For the record, I think - though couldn&#039;t swear - that my first &quot;new&quot; episode was Series Twenty Eight&#039;s Variations On A Theme Of Road Rage. One significant thing that&#039;s changed the way I view the series is that I&#039;ve now visited many of the locations used in the series. In October I had a day in Holmfirth and further afield to regular locations like Holmbridge and Jackson Bridge. Nora&#039;s steps, Compo&#039;s house, Sid&#039;s Cafe, Marina&#039;s supermarket(s), the library, Edie&#039;s home, Barry and Glenda&#039;s house, the White Horse pub and Cleggy and Howard&#039;s homes were among the key locales I visited. Understanding the area a little more and the distance between some of the places is always guaranteed to put a new spin on it, and doing the internal &quot;I&#039;ve been there&quot; with each location on screen has brought a fun new dimension to viewing.While in Holmfirth I wandered up to pay a visit to the adjoining graves of Bill Owen and Peter Sallis. The splendour of Bill Owen&#039;s grave, with its two large headstones and abundance of welly plant pots juxtaposed with the simplicity of Peter&#039;s grave - with a few flowers and a simple wooden cross marker - was unexpectedly moving. The thing that really got me was a flat cap hung over the wooden cross, which said far more than any amount of words could. As part of a day in which I walked in their footsteps, this unexpected encounter with its window of quiet and calm gave me a few moments where I suddenly felt I&#039;d &quot;met&quot; these two men.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 146292, member: 23"] Taking a four month break randomly in the middle of a run is always a little risky. It was mid-series and mid-disc. Fortunately I knew which disc, as I left it in the player during a bit of a sabbatical from watching. But as I watched the first few episodes it highlighted the latter series' more humdrum nature. Most of it seemed familiar and there was an occasional fragment of awareness that I'd previously watched a scene, but for much of the time I couldn't tell if the familiarity came from the running gags and recurring storylines. Anyway, I've now finished the disc in question and so I'm definitely on to new ground. For the record, I [I]think[/I] - though couldn't swear - that my first "new" episode was Series Twenty Eight's [I]Variations On A Theme Of Road Rage. [/I] One significant thing that's changed the way I view the series is that I've now visited many of the locations used in the series. In October I had a day in Holmfirth and further afield to regular locations like Holmbridge and Jackson Bridge. Nora's steps, Compo's house, Sid's Cafe, Marina's supermarket(s), the library, Edie's home, Barry and Glenda's house, the White Horse pub and Cleggy and Howard's homes were among the key locales I visited. Understanding the area a little more and the distance between some of the places is always guaranteed to put a new spin on it, and doing the internal "I've been there" with each location on screen has brought a fun new dimension to viewing. While in Holmfirth I wandered up to pay a visit to the adjoining graves of Bill Owen and Peter Sallis. The splendour of Bill Owen's grave, with its two large headstones and abundance of welly plant pots juxtaposed with the simplicity of Peter's grave - with a few flowers and a simple wooden cross marker - was unexpectedly moving. The thing that really got me was a flat cap hung over the wooden cross, which said far more than any amount of words could. As part of a day in which I walked in their footsteps, this unexpected encounter with its window of quiet and calm gave me a few moments where I suddenly felt I'd "met" these two men. [/QUOTE]

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