Weir's Way

[Mark]

After someone on here linked to Weir's Way on the STV site I got a bit addicted. In the end the poor quality of the compressed video on the STV site got too much and I've splashed out £26.00 on the DVDs.

It's no better! Looks and sounds dreadful!

Still addicted!

[Silkie]

Tee Hee!

Weren't they originally 405 line B&W TV later hand-coloured frame by frame by thousands of Chinese children?

[Mark]

Tee Hee!

Weren't they originally 405 line B&W TV later hand-coloured frame by frame by thousands of Chinese children?

I think that's likely. Unfortunately the Chinese children had been naughty and were being punished by the confiscation of all their crayons except for three really blunt grey ones.

The show is still superb, mind.

A bit strange seeing Bryan/Brian Walters talking about the future and the safety of fishing and then doing a web search to find he was lost in 2003. (Apparently having had an excellent life in the meantime, though.)

The world is hungry for cheap-to-produce TV, I'd have thought that a modern Weir's Way would be a dead cert. Maybe the problem is finding a character like Tom Weir to do it. Is there a Weir-like poet of the mountains who could present and write his own scripts?

[Silkie]

I reckon Shard is the man for the job. I'm pretty sure he'll still have a couple of bobble hats kicking about at the back of the wardrobe and programmes could be enlivened by occasional apprearances from Mme Shard in the role of Molly. (I really hope she never reads this!)

[NorthUp2]

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Julia Bradbury did OK on the Wainwright Walks. And she's easier on the eye than Tom Weir ever was!

[Mark]

After the Scuttlebutt Clyde Cruise I had to watch the Tarbert episode. Excellent stuff.

[ash]

He's not Tom Weir, but have you watched any of the Paul Murton stuff? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016x21 ... aul-murton

Ash

[Mark]

He's not Tom Weir, but have you watched any of the Paul Murton stuff? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016x21 ... aul-murton

Ash

Many thanks for the heads up, Ash. Downloaded the three available ones and really enjoyed them. Right up my street.

Seems the BBC were monitoring Bluemoment for programme ideas back in 2010.

[Telo]

He's not Tom Weir, but have you watched any of the Paul Murton stuff? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016x21 ... aul-murton

I grew up in Argyll, where my parent's ran a small hotel.....

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.....

[Mark]

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.....

Someon'e gives you an extr'a apostroph'e at no additiona'l cost and you thro'w it back in his fac'e. How ungratefu'l!

[ash]

He's not Tom Weir, but have you watched any of the Paul Murton stuff? - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b016x21 ... aul-murton

I grew up in Argyll, where my parent's ran a small hotel.....

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.....

If only he had asked the BlueMomenters to check his website before it went live! We do a great job for Nick!

Ash