Originally Posted by mikelincs

Countryfile on the BBC, lambing time. and there has just been a section on sheep counting in ancient time, which was basically using the Anglo-Saxon counting system which for 1, 2, 3 Which is Yan, Tan, Tether in one on the Yorksire dales, The same sysem was used in Lincolnshire, Yan, Tan, Tethera. This counting only went up to 20, might be a problem with a big flock, so they swapped a pebble from on pocket to another, then started again. When I was at school, (many years agp) out school magazine was called... Yan, Tan Tethera. Yes from Lincolnshir, I still can recite a poem in the Lincolnshire dialect remembered from my childhood

Originally Posted by Hawkmoon77

See Jake Thakaray's song 'Old Molly Metcalfe'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiXINuf5nbI

Originally Posted by spouse of scouse

Calvary (2014). It's billed as a drama/dark comedy, and while the latter is certainly sprinkled through it, it didn't lighten the even darker drama for me. Brendan Gleeson is wonderful as the priest of a small Irish town. It's a confronting movie and definitely only for adults.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiwpnBKXr-A

Originally Posted by BristolUK

Added to my list. Brendan Gleeson is usually VFM.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Bloodlands...4 eps just finished showing on UK TV. James Nesbitt is an Irish detective, who connects a kidnapping to an old case involving the IRA. It is OK, but not as good as I had hoped.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1128554..._=nv_sr_srsg_0

Originally Posted by Hawkmoon77

...now working through The Bridge. (Yes, I know I'm several years behind everyone else).

Originally Posted by BristolUK

Don't worry about that, just enjoy it in the knowledge there's much to come.

If you ever enjoyed Spooks (MI5 in the US) you must take a look at The Bureau. It's brilliant.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

I loved Spooks...but the link doesn’t work.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

Corrected now.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

Thank you. How did you watch it...Acorn, Prime, Netflix etc?

Originally Posted by BristolUK

I watched on a mix of 'alternative' streaming sites. It may be on Amazon Prime and possibly the Sundance channel.

But it's French with English subs. I don't know if the other services offer dubbing like Netflix does.

Originally Posted by Jerseygirl

OK thank you. I cannot do foreign language with subs...watching programs/films that have been dubbed is bad enough.

Originally Posted by BristolUK

I can't really take dubbing...it never really fits. Even worse if you know the real voices

I think I just started young with BBC2 World Cinema back in the 70s

I watch stuff now and I get so used to subs that when it's finished I sometimes struggle to remember if there were subs or not.

Originally Posted by Sugarmooma

We are at the point that we only watch stuff that have sub titles. The amount of back ground noise/ music and people mumbling and M getting more hard of hearing saying " what are they saying" all the time means subs for the win!