I Am A Swede

Yeah, weak and frail are hardly words I would use to describe Chas Dingle. Feisty, hot-tempered, impulsive and loud-mouthed would come closer to the truth, at least that's how she used to be.

I have now. I'm not ashamed to admit I got a little misty-eyed watching it. Pure perfection.

This is so true! You'd hardly believe that this show takes place in a small country village in Yorkshire nowadays. With all the crimes, explosions, shootings etcetera it feels more like it belongs in a big city. This upcoming story with Ashley, however sad, is actually more the kind of story that this show should do. It should be more about the people of the village and their relationships, their trials and tribulations, not about a bunch of hoodlums and criminals double-crossing and trying to kill each other. How I wish they would just cut the entire Dingle family from the show! I used to like some of them, but now I can't stand the sight of any of them. They've taken over and almost destroyed the show. Especially since Cain/Charity/Debbie appeared. It's been downhill ever since. I'm sure a lot of people would disagree and call me anti-progress and hoplessly backwards, but I really think Emmerdale was a better show during the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. It has lost its identity and is rapidly becoming just a generic soap.

She's back!

Two days ago, October 7th, was the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Kristina från Duvemåla, a musical by Björn and Benny (the B:s from ABBA). Even though I love ABBA, I have to say that I think this musical contains their best work ever....

It's still almost hard to believe that it really happened. This is right up there with Lori McNeil beating Steffi Graf in the first round at Wimbledon 1994 (first time ever the reigning champion lost in the first round) or qualifier Jelena Dokic crushing world nr 1 Martina Hingis (6-2, 6-0) also in the first round at Wimbledon 1999.

This must be the biggest shock in a long, long time! Maybe she subconsciously already thought about that calendar Grand Slam that waited around the corner. I wonder if she'll ever get an opportunity like this again.

With all due respect to Chrissie Hynde, but she's totally and utterly wrong. It doesn't matter how you dress, or how you behave, or where you are, or whether you're drunk or not.

Here's a good site to start with http://emmerdale.wikia.com/wiki/Emmerdale_Wiki

That just sounds incredibly silly and far-fetched, not to mention like a cheap rip-off of the show's most legendary disaster.

Great episodes. In one of the 1978 episodes I did spot a possible mistake when Reverend Hinton and Annie were discussing his children. He referred to his daughter as Christine, but when she appeared on the show a few years later she was called Barbara.

You're definitely not a bad person. Robert is a fascinating character, worthy of much better writing than he gets. I've always felt more sympathy for Robert than for Andy. It used to annoy me how Jack always sided with Andy and always seemed to have more affection for him than for Robert, his biological son. Technically Sarah wasn't Robert's mom, only Victoria's. But his biological mom died when he was only 4-5 months old, and Sarah was the only mom he'd ever known. It must have been so hard for him when Jack did everything he could for Andy after Sarah's death, but almost seemed to forget Robert.

She also married Jack Sugden, a serial adulterer, not to mention the fact that her daughter is an adulteress, and her sister committed adultery with her then husband.... I agree that it's horrible writing when they have characters do and say things that make them seem so hypocritical. Had it been Victoria it would have made more sense. She has been terribly affected by adultery throughout her life.

For those interested in Emmerdale Farm during the 80s this site has a lot of material about that era. http://emmerdalearchive.blogspot.se/

Lovely to see it again, but I agree, it was a bad choice to end the episode with Chris and Kathy. They really should have ended with Annie and Amos. I do think it's a bit odd, and I remember thinking so at the time as well, that Marian, Henry's daughter, didn't come to the funeral. I realize it's a long way to travel from Rome, but Spain is also far away and Amos came. If neither of the two actresses who had played Marian could make it I'm sure a recast would have worked. It would have been better than not having her there at all.

It's possible that the little girl with Andy and Robert is Victoria. It's hard to tell, but it looks a little bit like Hannah Midgley who played Victoria at this time. The guys with Scott are Adam Forrester (played by Tim Vincent) and Carlos Diaz (played by Gary Turner). Adam was a vet who worked for Zoe for a while. I think he arrived in the village around the time of the bus crash, and stayed about a year before he was sacked for giving the wrong injection to a horse. Carlos was a chef who worked at Kathy's diner. He was in a relationship with Nicola, but at the same time he had an affair with Bernice. She became pregnant and didn't know if Carlos or Ashley (her husband at the time) was the father. This all came out at his wedding to Nicola, who in turn had pretended to be pregnant to make Carlos marry her.

James would be almost 19 now. He was born in September 1996.

I guess she could return because of Noah, Charity's son. He is her nephew through Chris after all.