This weekend is sponsored by the song.....
Half The World Away (The Royle Family Theme Tune)-Oasis
This song has been going through my head all weekend
due to the passing of the great comic writer and actress Caroline Ahern
This song is of course the theme tune to one of Caroline's great shows The Royle Family.
We watched this show every week growing up and I guess in a way we could related to it
As a working class family with an older daughter and younger son, we watched the telly
every evening after tea, we sung along to different ads and theme tunes on the telly.
At the time my parents would call me Denise (cause I wasn't not much of a cook) and my brother was nicked named Lerkyo or Antkneeee (due to his height he looked a little like lankly Ralf Little)
later when I met Paul my parent's gave him the nickname Dave and when we had Oisìn my Dad would sometimes call him Baby David!!
We watched the Christmas specials every year, and still like to watch the reruns at Christmas time.
After my brother died I found it hard to watch this show, but the writing and cast soon had me watching again. I have wonderful memories of my brother laughing so hard at this show, that his face would go red and tears would be ruining down his cheeks.
Not alot of shows have captured our families heart in the way The Royle Family did, maybe Only Fools and Horses was the only other.
Thank you Caroline Ahern for the laughs and memories
you will be missed....
beautiful post. I think the reason The Royle Family worked was for exactly that reason, people do sit around watching telly together, drinking tea. And she was such a good writer she picked up on small details that resonated. I was talking about it to my Mum earlier this week. UK Gold have bee showing TRF on at 9 each day, and I've been watching them. When Barb cooked a roast dinner and was all hot and bothered, Jim did nothing but moan about the roast spuds being overcooked (he and Twiggy were late back from the pub), and then pointed out how flushed she was. I said to my mum how spot on it is, how you sit down after cooking and you just look red in the face and don't feel like eating. Tiny thing, but spot on.
ReplyDeleteIt's a loss. Someone so young and with so much talent, ripped away from the world. Feel very sad about it.
Jim would call it a pile of shiny shite.
Anyway. Beautiful post. xxxx
Thanks so much Sadie....still get sad thinking of it...life can be too cruel sometimes xx
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