It's become a lunchtime ritual for me watching two episodes of Emmerdale Farm " Hem till gården " as it's called here in Sweden. Corry never caught on here, but Emmerdale has been running for years. We are about three years behind.

When the Prof and Johanna were over the other day, she said that a few people at work had started to watch too. One guy brought a packed lunch every day and since he was the only one he'd have his lunch in front of the telly in the conference room. He was alone until Johanna too started to bring a packed lunch and now it turns out there are a few of them in there at lunch time. The Emmerdale gang :)

When people here in Sweden ask me where I'm from , I say " Bradford , Yorkshire ...that's in the north of England , near Leeds " ( which they know from Leeds United ) and I add .. " it's near Emmerdale Farm." "Ah! " they say and all's well in the world ;)

Today one of the old characters 79 year old Seth Armstrong died on the plane on his way home from Australia. Betty his partner aoll excited and dolled up had come to meet him at the airport and people back at the Woolpack had prepared a homecoming welcome party for him only old Seth's body was on its way to the morgue and not the Woolpack

This reminded me of my own dad's passing. He and my mum were in Riga , Latvia on a two week holiday to celebrate Riga's 800th jubilee. Lots of Latvians were there at thet time. Four days into their stay there , mum and dad had decided after lunch to go for a wander round town. At one point, mum heard dad say " Wait " She turns round to see him sink to the ground " It was like he was gently being drawn to the ground " she said later " I've not seen anything like it ". This was right by the Brivibas Peimineklis , the Freedom Monument! Despite efforts to resuscitate , 79 year old dad had passed on and mum returned to the hotel with only his walking stick.

Watching Emmerdale Farm brought back memories. Today's episode was also a tribute to the actor Stan Richards, who played Seth and had also died after a period of illness.

Anyway , I googled and found the very FIRST episode of Emmerdale on You Tube , which also starts with a funeral :roll:

Bless.