http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Stoneyburn shocker en Tue, 19 May 2026 01:29:15 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194865 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 10:55:00 +0000 gembo 194865@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Watched the first episode ever of absolutely on Channel 4 iplayer. Eldest daughter said she nearly laughed at some bits. THe show is 40 mins long and some sketches clearly too leisurely. More surreal than funny. Morwenna Banks Little Girl remains timelessly brill.</p> <p>In bizarre coincidence. Mr Don and Mr George take the remains of their landlady who had spontaneously combusted to the undertaker played by John Sparkes which sparked all this off in my head as John Sparkes played undertaker in Big Lebowski - It is our MOST modestly proced receptacle. Anyway as the landlady is already ash they go for burial. John is helpful as the ash is small he produces a big matchbox. Mr DOn and Mr George baulk at this but inside the matchbox is a demonstration version of a model coffin, very small. They use this, blowing the ash off the table etc. John then suggests a black roller skate instead of a hearse. Surley the Coen Bros borrowed from this for Walter and Il Duderino's trip to the crem? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194742 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:14:53 +0000 wee folding bike 194742@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wearing zip off Kiwis with 8 pockets, 9 if you count the one for phones which is inside one of the other pockets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194720 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:57:42 +0000 gembo 194720@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>pockets are great, you can keep things in them</p> <p>Actually, was it Jack Docherty who played McGlashan? as he is sadly not part of the reuonion, neither the earlier award winning programme a couple of years back nor the next four radio shows. Shame, COme on Jack still got time to change your mind. Unity is Strength.</p> <p>Also on the channel 4 iplayer - Father Ted obviously and Black Books and Friday Night Dinner. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194716 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 11:22:07 +0000 Stickman 194716@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Absolutely is on All4 (Channel 4 version of iplayer). Will be catching up on some forgotten favourites. </p> <p> I have turned in to Calum Gilhooly: when choosing a jacket I do like lots of pockets. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194712 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 10:39:15 +0000 cb 194712@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I like the McGlashan sketch where he is in the pub claiming that the Scots have invented pretty much everything, including the English.</p> <p>We took a detour on our Outer Hebrides cycle tour to visit Stoneybridge, barely even a hamlet and nothing like the Absolutely version. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194693 Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:12:44 +0000 gembo 194693@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>research reveals that the west lothian village of Breich, somewhere between addiewell and stoneyburn was used as the backdrop for stoneybridge, theough the actual bridge was down at warriston and other shots were also not in west lothian.</p> <p>THey had a character McGlashan. THere is one sketch i remember (which was slightly boring to watch) they kept cutting to him cycling from the central belt to the english border. McGlashan was always on the point of success and then his rampant xenophobia would trip him up. AnywaY he gets to the border, crosses over, shouts out poofters then turns round and goes home. Beware the McGlashans of this world, not sure how he will be received in Oran Mor? Probably with cheers. In I'm sorry I haven't a clue I always cheer when they do Hamish/Dougal/You'll have had your tea </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194670 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:06:59 +0000 gembo 194670@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Yes it was Frank Hovis of the famous follow through, thanks kind of for the reminder. The radio shows will be four in number and wiki claims will be recorded in Oran Mor in August and sept. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194667 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 20:14:00 +0000 Stickman 194667@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Frank Hovis's use of a tie has never left me either. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194666 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 20:06:24 +0000 gembo 194666@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's our most modestly priced receptacle </p> <p>I confess to watching the big lebowski at the weekend with the children. My fourteen year old son particularly taken with Give us the money lebowski or we come back and cut off your Johnson</p> <p>John sparkes wiki page has sept 2015 for return of absolutely on the radio apparently after an award winning radio special. I missed that. I loved morwenna banks Prossie women school girl sketches. Sparkes did a sketch about being in the bath which will never leave me but not in a good way. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194661 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:21:35 +0000 wee folding bike 194661@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I thought there was an Absolutely link on the BBC Radio 4 page but I can't find it.</p> <p>This is from the National:</p> <p><a href="http://www.thenational.scot/culture/cult-scottish-comedy-show-absolutely-set-for-comeback-after-22-years.5240" rel="nofollow">http://www.thenational.scot/culture/cult-scottish-comedy-show-absolutely-set-for-comeback-after-22-years.5240</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194660 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 19:19:03 +0000 wee folding bike 194660@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Hmmmm… IMDB says it's this guy with the modestly priced receptacle in which to convey the remains.</p> <p><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445316/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t40" rel="nofollow">http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0445316/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t40</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194657 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:48:35 +0000 wingpig 194657@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is that the same John Sparkes who voices the farmer in Shaun the Sheep?</p> <p><code>[imdb][/imdb]</code></p> <p>So it is. Naked Video, too. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194655 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:34:08 +0000 gembo 194655@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Morag's moustache won't be so obvious on the radio.</p> <p>The Welsh guy, John sparkes was he in absolutely or was that the earlier one Al fresco?</p> <p>Anyway he plays the funeral director in the big lebowski. True. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194654 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:48:28 +0000 wee folding bike 194654@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Absolutely is coming back on the wireless. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194653 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:45:43 +0000 Stickman 194653@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Does Stoneyburn have a sa-logan? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194651 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 17:37:18 +0000 DrAfternoon 194651@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've always suspected that Stoneybridge of Absolutely fame was based on Stoneyburn. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194637 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 13:44:18 +0000 gembo 194637@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Xmas cake gone but bus stop still there, waiitng patiently these last twenty years for a bus. In 1987 I was going through Carnwath for reasons I cannot recall, as passenger in car, maybe going down south? As we turned a corner we were nearly taken out by a big orange SPTE bus which we found incongrupoous this far east but Strahclyde Region extended beyond Woolfords up to the model aeroplane flying club.. Woolfords has a new town hall. It is nice, slightly bigger than a hut. Part of the Woolfords, Auchengray and Tabrax Improvement Plan </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194603 Mon, 03 Aug 2015 10:48:27 +0000 kaputnik 194603@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is there still an old orange SPT sign on the never used bus stop in Woolfords?</p> <p>And is there still a big lump of Christmas cake in it? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=15224#post-194550 Sun, 02 Aug 2015 12:43:51 +0000 gembo 194550@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Was doing my version of the col du climpy today which Druidh of this parish introduced back in 2010 or so. Hadn't been for a while and a tricky crossroad almost at North Lanarkshire has now been given traffic lights. Stoneyburn now has many speed bumps. But most amazingly the bunting that Festoons stoneyburn Is now red, white, blue, green and gold. They have gone ecumenical. One cottage staying loyal to the red, white and blue and another added in pink. Hope for us all. </p>