Isn't this just the daftest programme about a vet's practice ever? I can't decide whether it's meant to be drama or complete farce! Last night took the biscuit - can you imagine any business where the person left in charge of the reception/finance could  work neither the computer nor the card machine.... Also it's very demeaning to menopausal women, step-mothers....why do I bother watching it, I ask myself

Bring back "All Creatures Great and Small" is all I can say! I used to love that.

ah all creatures great and small what a brill programme, ive got the tune as a ring tone takes me straight back to being a child when I hear it. although I have watched it in recent years on Sky and like a lot of programmes you remember with fondness seemed a bit hammy! have you read the books though they are the only books that can make me laugh out loud again every time I read them!
emma

Yes Emma, I've read most of the books - absolutely great!

I can remember one I was reading on the train years ago, when I worked in London, that made me laugh so much I cried. God knows what the other passengers thought of this mad woman sitting on her own, reading a book, and laughing and crying (in that suppressed way that you try not to draw attention to yourself).

I met Alf White(James Herriot)when we took some pigeons to be vetted before they went to Germany, he still had his scottish accent & charged us £20 for opening the pigeon carrier & shutting it again !! ;-)

John Crooks, who is in the books, was the founder of the practice I use & I have to laugh at his mentions in the books They summed John up completely !

how brill to have met the real man! im jealous. Pedlee going back to what you said i remember my husband being furious when i was reading in bed and he was trying to sleep  i was really laughing and he told me off so i had to torture myself by keep reading the same bit and trying to keep my mouth closed so i was making a snorting sound like a pig (which I thought was rather apt) i believe it was where he took helen for a date and the car got flooded then he had to borrow a really dodgy too small suit and a pair of dancing slippers which i pictured like ballet shoes and then the dance wasnt on. im actually laughing as i write this but anyone who hasnt read the books wouldnt understand!!

That's exactly the same story Emma. We've obviously got the same sense of humour!

Only ever read one of the books think it was 'could only happen to a vet' and your right it makes you laugh out loud.