Victoria Wood Commemorative Thread

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In memory of Victoria Wood who died 4 years ago today, FAR too young.

Please share your favourite sketches, songs and quotes, not least to keep us all amused during the current weirdness.

I'll start with one of my favourites, the legendary Kitty:

"No the secret of my youthful appearance is simply mashed swede. As a face-mask, as a night cap, and in an emergency, as a draught-excluder."

Kitty ( paraphrased ) my television wasn’t working, they sent round a youth in pilsols who waggled my aerial, and scoffed all my gypsy creams, but that’s the comprehensive system for you!

"Two soups" still said in the manner of Julie Walters if I serve soup for lunch.

After hearing this live, I had to search my memories of my drunken ONSs.

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I loved Kitty.... I'm something of a celebrity since I walked the Pennine Way in slingbacks in an attempt to publicise mental health...my father's mother ran her own abbatoir and I was only in need of hospitalisation once when I was concussed by an electric potato peeler at the Ideal Home Exhibition.

I could quote her all day long. Caused my then DP (now DH) confusion by once asking for my parsley 'not too chopped'. He had claimed to be a fan but was mystified.

Very sad that she's gone, such a talented lady. Especially loved Acorn Antiques, the cross channel swimmer mock documentary, Housewife 49.

Also a special where they did the WI group making tea to the style of ER. Just brilliantly observed.

If ever we can’t find something, DH and I will always come back with ‘is it on the trolley? Can you point at it?’

I’ve loved Victoria Wood since I discovered her in my early teens. She wasn’t exactly ‘cool’ to watch in my peer group but I thought she was wonderful.

As an aside, have you noticed the colour scheme here on Mumsnet? That’s the blue of our Margaret’s shower curtain....

Kitty, she was fabulous.

‘She said Kitty, do you like fun? I said no I don’t. I had enough of that when I got stuck in a lift with a hula hoop salesman in 1957’

‘I’ll put my sprouts on in November’ is often said at Christmas in our house.

‘And I’m sure Marjorie won’t mind me sharing with you that she’s in the middle of quite a serious nervous breakdown’.

I adored her short TV plays. The one set at the airport. ‘We’ll be sharing a room which is lovely. Someone to give me a hand with all those special feminine devices’.

I am another person still heart sore at the loss. I related to her and her humour so very much. I can’t quite believe even now that there’ll be no more.

I love dinnerladies so much, it’s proper comfort viewing. She was an amazing writer.

Dolly: Honestly - who has sex on Christmas morning?

Jean: The Dalai Lama.

Dolly: Well - he must peel his sprouts the night before.

I miss her too. Within the family, I'm known as Kimberly because of my sherry habit. @VictoriaQOTD on Twitter provides regular reminders of how funny and poignant she was.

@extracurricularfatigue heart sore is the perfect phrase. I cried when she died and I'm no crier. It was shocking.

She's got hotdog all over her uvula. 'Ave you seen 'er?

I was in bookstore earlier in the year and the woman working there had to make a phone call. She had the flat northern accent and was speaking rather louder than necessary and started the call ' it's Julie from the Camberley branch. ..'

I think it was the Camberley sounding like Kimberley , but for a moment I thought I was in a Victoria Wood sketch.

I went to see a small exhibition about her in Bury and the sight of that dressing table with her beret hung on it made me cry.

Which in itself, sounds like something from a VW sketch!

She was fabulous and I’m going to rewatch Dinnerladies.

There is a new biography coming out in October. It has the approval of her estate so hopefully will be a good insight into her life.

It was Julie Walters who originally described herself as heart sore when Wood died, referenced the loss as "incalculable" which I thought expressed it perfectly.

It was Julie Walters who originally described herself as heart sore

Was it? I must have had that tucked away in my sub-conscious all this time as the word just came to me as I typed. She is so right.

Oh thank you for this - I was thinking about how much I miss her a couple of days ago.
Does anyone know where I can find As Seen On TV or the playlets to stream? I can only find Dinner Ladies on Netflix.

A friend of mine was at school with her - they used to skive off games together.

She used to enjoy the early stuff Victoria wrote about her schooldays - "The class went on a cross-country run. We dented a viaduct" "The games mistress came in the room with her divided skirts waggling"

Watching "That Day we Sang" written and composed by Victoria Wood. Brilliant. It's 10 years old now. Never seen it before. I recorded it from Drama channel on New Year's Eve.
When someone like Victoria Wood or Caroline Aherne dies young, you feel the loss of what they'd have written and appeared in if they'd lived longer.
The film is a musical about a recording of The Manchester Children's Choir in 1929 and a reunion in 1969. It stars Imelda Staunton, Michael Ball, Sophie Thompson and others. Victoria Wood composed the songs.

Patron saint of women basically. RIP Victoria

Most threads should not be revived. This is an exception. Someone whose talent we still can all enjoy, whose humour was not cruel or coarse. Someone mentioned Crossroads the other day and I immediately thought of Acorn Antiques.

Just saying 'two soups' reduces my mum to laughter.

I may have said this before but I was at a grim playgroup where I didn’t know anyone looking to make friends as just moved and someone mentioned red cabbage the mum next to me muttered “red cabbage how much?” I responded “red cabbage no idea - it’s a very important job”. Friend for life!

This is definitely a thread worthy of a bump.

I was wearing my "is it on the trolley" t-shirt today. I walked past a woman of a similar age and she smiled and asked "can you point to it?"

I wanted to cry.

What a tremendous talent. Still takes my breath away.

I can picture that sketch in my mind!