tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post8647722243889610370..comments2024-03-25T12:31:58.169+00:00Comments on David Stimpson: Checkmate!David Stimpsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-62377918639962944782015-08-08T09:11:44.710+01:002015-08-08T09:11:44.710+01:00Hello Nadia,
I enjoyed reading your comment ve...Hello Nadia,<br /> I enjoyed reading your comment very much. I've always thought the shopkeeper acted rather shifty as he protested to Number 6 and the Rook that his books had never been checked before. I like to think that he was fiddling his books in some way. And perhaps that's why he was replaced by the time of the next episode!<br /> You asked if I worked in The Village which job I would have liked to have done. Well I have had a fascination for boats and ships of all kinds, and from all ages since I was a boy. So I would be a boat hand on M.S. Polotksa, but that would be a second choice, as that's not technically working in The Village. So seeing as I am a very keen gardener, I'd be one of the gardeners, mind the plants sir, they're new!<br /><br />Very best regards<br />David<br />BCNUDavid Stimpsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15196038086564981619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9036104775563265647.post-56484367958939999882015-08-07T14:21:50.817+01:002015-08-07T14:21:50.817+01:00Hi David
Yes, Checkmate is an excellent episode an...Hi David<br />Yes, Checkmate is an excellent episode and one of my favourites. As well as the lovely shots of the village and the chessboard there are some funny moments e.g. when No.6 and his band of merry men accost the shopkeeper and get him to show them his books (very shady looking behaviour – why didn’t the observers spot this!), and also when his team of escapees pathetically try to tie up No.2 when they storm the Green Dome. Plus the searchlight team get thrown out of the tower – yet again! I wouldn’t have wanted to do their job – probably one of the most dangerous in the whole village!<br />So, David, if you worked in the village which job would you like to have done? Perhaps you’d have been brave enough to work in the tower searchlight team? Myself I’d probably like to have been a barmaid in the Cat & Mouse, or even No.6’s housekeeper so I could get to know him, ha, ha!<br />Nadia<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com