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I am watching BALLET SHOES and it is HEAVENLY... do NOT miss it, you will cry and be sad forever

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Aitch · 24/12/2007 22:41

ooooooh, only 20 mins in and am excited beyond belief. Harriet Walters is masterly, Emilia Fox a pleasant surprise as usuallly i find her a posho show-off.

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

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choosyfloosy · 28/12/2007 19:59

I did think it was quite funny to put it on at 8.30 (funny ha ha) - it was such an obvious nostalgia trip for - people like me I suppose.

Are they softening us up for an 8.30 major serial on Biggles?

cmotdibbler · 28/12/2007 20:23

Majorca- yes its Curtain Up that they get candies sent from the US where an Uncle is in the movies.
The titles were altered when all the books were first issued in the US.
I enjoyed it apart from the Theo thing, but they were all far too old - in the book Posy is about 6 when they start. in Curtain Up theres a thing made about point shoes as the government allowed so nany pairs off ration for children at stage school, but they aren't old enough for them

newnamefornewyearbookwormmum · 28/12/2007 21:31

Apologies if someone has already replied! Party Shoes features a character called Selina - anybody know that one?

I have party shoes upstairs - it's about a girl who gets a party dress from an American relative in WW2. SHe lives in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere so to justify the dress, her cousins decide to write a pagent so she can be the narrator and wear the dress. Naturally it gets taken out of their hands and it becomes a huge thing for the village (keep morale up and all that). I've read it several times (can you tell?

newnamefornewyearbookwormmum · 28/12/2007 21:38

I winced when Nana said that Petrova ought to have brains as she was obviously going to be Miss Plain in the nursery.

No wonder Pauline got so uppity later on .

Majorca · 28/12/2007 22:25

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newnamefornewyearbookwormmum · 28/12/2007 22:33

I have re-read it recently . I like it as all the children have to work together to get the thing off the ground, and the adults give them carte blanche to do so providing they're polite, jkeep on doing their tasks around the house and so on. Selina is very quiet and the action tends to take place around her iyswim.

I'm a bit of a sucker for old-fashioned children's stories. I'd like to re-read the skating book - White Boots is it? I seem to veer towards books where the heroine is a bit of a loner .

Quattrocento · 28/12/2007 22:34

The skating one is White Boots - Harriet and Lala? Or is that a teletubby?

newnamefornewyearbookwormmum · 28/12/2007 22:36

Lala was the show-off girl wasn't she?

Harriet's Mum was always being urged to make firescreens as they didn't have 2 pennies to rub together but somehow they could afford skating lessons for her .

Quattrocento · 28/12/2007 22:38

Yes that's right

It was Lalla not Lala - her parents died young and she was brought up to be a "champion grim".

Think the lessons were for Harriet's health.

Doctors just don't prescribe the way they used to.

newnamefornewyearbookwormmum · 28/12/2007 22:45

Bet he wasn't an NHS doctor

Majorca · 29/12/2007 09:14

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anniebear · 30/12/2007 10:30

so what happened in the end?

we watched all but about the last 25 mins

was a bit dissapointe din it, but I was shattered so couldnt concentrate properly

MrsBadger · 30/12/2007 12:43

(in reply to a post about two yards ago, Apple Bough is now Travelling Shoes)

WendyWeber · 30/12/2007 12:50

NO!!!!!

WendyWeber · 30/12/2007 13:09

The DVD is out next week

Does anybody else want to slap simpering Emma W?

WendyWeber · 30/12/2007 13:19

Family Shoes = The Bell Family

RosaLuxMundi · 30/12/2007 20:09

I have a first edition of The Bell Family. Tophole stuff.

cmotdibbler · 30/12/2007 20:50

I love the Bell Family too - it was a present from my mum last christmas along with a NS biography.
Harriets skating was free as the doctor arranged it with the skating rink owner, but she only got lessons with Lalla after a while. Must go find my copy in the as yet unpacked boxes. Somehow Tennis Shoes and Party Frock are out, but most paperbacks from the childrens book shelves aren't out yet.

dinny · 30/12/2007 20:52

oh, I loved White Boots even more than Ballet Shoes. The adaptation was so brilliant though (BS) - dd now obsessed even more with ballet

anyone know who wrote the story about the family who fell on hard times and then lived in a cave and made it all homely?

motherinferior · 30/12/2007 20:54

Apparently NS was a (very closeted) lesbian herself. Which kind of enhances the dyke doctors angle, I find.

Celia2 · 30/12/2007 22:17

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WendyWeber · 30/12/2007 23:03

Oh, I loved the Children who Lived in a Barn, Celia - their parents had disappeared in a plane crash?

I was fascinated by the hay box

Tamum · 30/12/2007 23:05

There's a bit of a theme going on with missing parents, isn't there

MI, I didn't know that, how interesting. Must have been quite a difficult life in those days.

Celia2 · 31/12/2007 13:11

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minorityrules · 31/12/2007 16:26

They lived in a cave in The Dwelling Place, Catherine Cookson