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tourmalineTime for some Jeeves & Wooster again - beginning with the episode I missed yesterday because I fell asleep. Jeeves & Bertie have been summoned by Aunt Agatha to Westcombe-on-Sea, a little English seaside town played by Sidmouth on the South Devon coast. It looks incredibly charming onscreen, kind of the seaside town of your dreams - grand old hotels, a sandy beach, lots of flowerbaskets and country views and so on.
When Jeeves & Wooster was being filmed, Stephen Fry was also a columnist for The Telegraph, and wrote his weekly column on the old-fashioned delights of Sidmouth. While I have always been a city girl, coming out in a nasty rash if stationed more than half a mile from a decent bus route, I did enjoy the delights of Sidmouth briefly at the age of around fourteen. We were in the general area for our family summer holiday, and Sidmouth naturally made its appearance on our towns-to-visit-while-we're-here list. While it did look like it hadn't been touched by much since around 1930, it remained very charming-looking and well-maintained, while sneaking in enough to keep a certain teenager amused (a shop selling beads for making jewellery, a restaurant providing decent burgers and Coke). Plus a shop selling strange teapots that everyone points at and laughs.
Every time I watch this ep of Jeeves & Wooster I'm reminded of my visit to Sidmouth. Maybe I'll go back some time, it would be nice. But I'm not leaping in with grand travel plans, and will concentrate for now on gathering the mental wherewithall to venture as far as Birmingham first.
When Jeeves & Wooster was being filmed, Stephen Fry was also a columnist for The Telegraph, and wrote his weekly column on the old-fashioned delights of Sidmouth. While I have always been a city girl, coming out in a nasty rash if stationed more than half a mile from a decent bus route, I did enjoy the delights of Sidmouth briefly at the age of around fourteen. We were in the general area for our family summer holiday, and Sidmouth naturally made its appearance on our towns-to-visit-while-we're-here list. While it did look like it hadn't been touched by much since around 1930, it remained very charming-looking and well-maintained, while sneaking in enough to keep a certain teenager amused (a shop selling beads for making jewellery, a restaurant providing decent burgers and Coke). Plus a shop selling strange teapots that everyone points at and laughs.
Every time I watch this ep of Jeeves & Wooster I'm reminded of my visit to Sidmouth. Maybe I'll go back some time, it would be nice. But I'm not leaping in with grand travel plans, and will concentrate for now on gathering the mental wherewithall to venture as far as Birmingham first.
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