Dimblebum in East Anglia on now

[sailorman]

 

[MoodySabre]

Most enjoyable

 

[sailorman]

Most enjoyable

skipped a lot, Woodbridge for instance

 

[jimi]

skipped a lot, Woodbridge for instance

sure you did'nt doze off and miss it ;-)

 

[sailorman]

sure you did'nt doze off and miss it ;-)

Its been a long week but no

 

[Robin B]

Lovely series.

 

[toyboy]

Lovely series.

I am the odd one out. I thought is showed a gentleman being sailed or motored around by his skipper. The boat rolls like a pig too.

 

[jerrytug]

I am the odd one out. I thought is showed a gentleman being sailed or motored around by his skipper. The boat rolls like a pig too.

Valet, groom, hired hand, stout fellows all. DD's grating vanity series,as it skimmed Suffolk,for example, focused not on the Lowestoft fishing industry but on painted puppets, while the lower orders respectfully tugged their forelocks and the multimillionaire Dimbleby dynasty cruised on their complacent course of pumping out superficial comforting sedative pap.
An excruciating, steaming pile of reactionary mogadon, was it a pastiche? Is he having a laugh?

 

[elton]

Why this "Dimblebum" nonsense? Is that his wife's secret under-the-duvet nickname for him?

 

[Malabar]

So what was all that "Walberswick" about? Not in the Reeds index or Visit my Harbour. Eventually found he was talking about Southwold but that was not mentioned. Is it a bit like discussing East and West Cowes? He passed the Blackwater and stopped at Southend Pier. Less easy to miss if your navigation is shakey I suppose. And don't bother to lend him your dinghy; he will only be very rude about it on television (I thought it was quite a nice dinghy he borrowed to visit 'Nancy Blacket')

 

[Gitane]

Enjoyed last night's episode, as well as the other episodes.

Disappointed to see that there is apparently nothing worth mentioning in the Blackwater or the Crouch. Are we who sail there, sailing in such an uninteresting area??!!

Gitane

 

[ex-Gladys]

In the context of the seaside as a place of entertainment - which is what the episode was - why would it talk about fishing, or even go to the Blackwater?

 

[MoodySabre]

So what was all that "Walberswick" about? Not in the Reeds index or Visit my Harbour. Eventually found he was talking about Southwold but that was not mentioned. Is it a bit like discussing East and West Cowes? He passed the Blackwater and stopped at Southend Pier. Less easy to miss if your navigation is shakey I suppose. And don't bother to lend him your dinghy; he will only be very rude about it on television (I thought it was quite a nice dinghy he borrowed to visit 'Nancy Blacket')

He didn't go to Southwold so why would he talk about it? It was, as Gladys said, a programme about the seaside and not about sailing the East Coast.

Better than most things on TV.

 

[dennyjc]

Better than most things on TV.

I agree.


My only gripe was with the editing.
e.g. A close shot would show Rocket on port tack then, a long shot would show it on Starboard tack or even motoring.
He went up the Thames by going through the barrier, under QEII bridge then past the dome !

 

[DavidofMersea]

My only gripe was with the editing.
e.g. A close shot would show Rocket on port tack then, a long shot would show it on Starboard tack or even motoring.
He went up the Thames by going through the barrier, under QEII bridge then past the dome !

That happened with GRJ programme about the barge from the Blackwater to the Thames - Nevertheless both good programmes

 

[Leighb]

So what was all that "Walberswick" about? Not in the Reeds index or Visit my Harbour. Eventually found he was talking about Southwold but that was not mentioned. Is it a bit like discussing East and West Cowes? He passed the Blackwater and stopped at Southend Pier. Less easy to miss if your navigation is shakey I suppose. And don't bother to lend him your dinghy; he will only be very rude about it on television (I thought it was quite a nice dinghy he borrowed to visit 'Nancy Blacket')

He was in fact talking about and in Walberswick. The River Blyth enters the sea at Southwold harbour. Southwold town is north of the river and Walberswick village is to the south. Walberswick village is much nearer the harbour than Southwold in fact. The artistic community he was discussing was and is very active in Walberswick. The rowing ferry which appeared briefly connects the two communities.

 

[Firefly]

I thought it was a perfectly good TV programme, but as always if you actually have knowledge of the subject, a bit odd. TV is just like that and it has to be accepted in order to enjoy the thing. For my money it was the "visit" to Frinton that was weird. One moment he was on the boat and next shot wandering around the town with no explanation how he got there.

 

[Bru]

For my money it was the "visit" to Frinton that was weird. One moment he was on the boat and next shot wandering around the town with no explanation how he got there.

They did seem to be determined to pick locations that aren't actually that accessible by boat didn't they!

Actually, I thought the East Coast episode was the weakest and most disappointing of the four. Perhaps because the theme seemed to be mostly art and the seaside (as in seaside holidays) rather than history.

 

[Mel]

I hardly recognised Pin Mill - they seem to have moved the long row of junk used as house-boats that looks like a scrap yard !

 

[Spuddy]

I liked the camera work - it looks terrific. Trouble, for me, is the script and mannerisms which seem like very average journalism and irritating respectively.