Keeping Up Appearances – Episode 4

Hyacinth’s father strangely seems to have become engaged and his ‘fiancee’ has moved herself into his bedroom at Daisy’s house! Hyacinth is called round to sort things out and get rid of the woman.

Rose’s love life also causes problems.

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Keeping Up Appearances – Episode 3

Hyacinth drags Richard off for a day out in the country – On the way, she decides to visit her father. She doesn’t get to see him because he has ‘escaped’ from Daisy and Onslow’s house by climbing down a drainpipe dressed as “Captain Midnight”! Apparently, he’s gone to save the woman at the Post Office from a “fate worse than death”.
Hyacinth and Richard then visit a stately home. Hyacinth insists on hanging around the “family area”, hoping to meet the nobility; To her dismay, Onslow, Daisy and Rose turn up, forcing them to make a hasty exit! Read more...

Keeping Up Appearances – Episode 1

Hyacinth Bucket makes her debut in this series premiere as a pretentious, middle-class housewife determined to hide her less-than-fastidious relations from the public. Through a series of events, Hyacinth learns the “naked” truth about her father and his sexual escapades, yet is determined to cover it up. When her timid neighbour Elizabeth is invited over for tea, Hyacinth subjects her mercilessly to the suffocating effects of her hospitality, culminating in Elizabeth dropping the china in her mounting nervousness. Throughout the episode, Hyacinth’s husband Richard obeys his wife’s demands painfully but meekly. Hyacinth does not hesitate to express her opinions and disdain for all that is less than orderly and sophisticated, like her. Read more...

Policing in Treaty #3

I posted an Editorial Article on Policing in Treaty #3 over at Intertribal Times.   After having known some of the Treaty #3 peelers for a while, and having some inside info, I tried to tell it exactly like it is without personal bias.