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Sunday, 2 April 2017
All The Fun of The Prisoner Convention!
The following images taken of the Election
Parade re-enactment this morning, Sunday April 2nd at the Prisoner Convention this morning at 10:57 See how the sun makes it all glow!
Kyakers pause to watch the action from the Estuary!
Saturday, 1 April 2017
Six For Two- Six For Two.......
This years Prisoner Convention at Portmeirion.
As the re-enactment of the Election Parade takes place this morning at 10:18am.
Taken via Village surveillance!
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As the re-enactment of the Election Parade takes place this morning at 10:18am.
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Thought For The Day
I have to say that things seem
a bit on the dull side after February and March have come and gone. I mean to
say so much happens during that time, Mind you Number 6 will not quite have
gotten over the episode of ‘The Schizoid Man’ just yet. I suppose it all
depends on how long it took him to grow that beard and moustache, somewhere
between 4 and 6 weeks I shouldn’t wonder, and seeing as it all begun on
February 10th, I suppose the mind conditioning will have been
completed and he’ll have undergone a makeover to make him look like Curtis.
Then he’ll have to have undergone a second makeover to make him look like
Number 6, so that he can then impersonate himself. Well it only seems fair,
seeing as for those 6 weeks Curtis will have installed himself in 6 Private,
and then went about The Village impersonating Number 6. But when did you ever
hear Number 6 whistle? And the way he comes into the cottage, hands in his
pockets, whistling, he’s far too relaxed, not like Number 6 at all! Poor old
Curtis, I bet when he was seconded back to The Village he never thought it
would end the way it did. Mind you it should have ended much sooner, only
Number 6 didn’t pick up on it, the fact that Curtis had a Polaroid picture
taken by Alison of himself wearing a dark blazer, when Curtis was wearing a
cream blazer. That should have ended the game at that point, and thus saved
Curtis’ life!
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The Therapy Zone
Poor old ZM73, there he is in
someone else’s body, that of the Colonel, but does he know it’s the Colonel’s?
I suppose he must have known, because he mentions the Colonel after he wakes up
on that operating table, and no-one had mentioned it to ZM73 about the Colonel.
And Number 6 had certainly not seen the Colonel in The Village, unless he did
when they were being connected up to the Selzman machine.
So for a time Number 6 goes running back to his ex-colleagues, as if it hadn’t been bad enough the first couple of times. What made him think this time would be any better? But it may be supposed that he had no-one else to turn to, even though he must have known he could no longer trust them. So there he was in the outer office grabbing Danvers by the lapels of his jacket demanding to see Sir Charles Portland, and yes a cup was upset in its saucer! PR12 along with two other gentlemen turned up in the outer office asking the unknown intruder for a name. They couldn’t risk using ZM73’s real name, so he offered pseudonyms, Schmitt and Duval, and finally his code name. And of course PR12 had his code name, but not Danvers, perhaps he wasn’t important enough to warrant a code name, so they had to actually use his real name, if Danvers was his real name. But I think we have to take it at face value that it was. He wasn’t even important enough to get biscuits with his morning elevenses. There was a cup in its saucer but no tea plate. Danvers predecessor was allowed biscuits with his elevenses tea, but perhaps by the time Danvers was transferred from the typing pool to the reception office, cut backs meant that tea was served without biscuits! I am reminded of the episode of ‘Rumpole And The Official Secrets’ in which there was a scandal about the cost of biscuits within government departments.
So for a time Number 6 goes running back to his ex-colleagues, as if it hadn’t been bad enough the first couple of times. What made him think this time would be any better? But it may be supposed that he had no-one else to turn to, even though he must have known he could no longer trust them. So there he was in the outer office grabbing Danvers by the lapels of his jacket demanding to see Sir Charles Portland, and yes a cup was upset in its saucer! PR12 along with two other gentlemen turned up in the outer office asking the unknown intruder for a name. They couldn’t risk using ZM73’s real name, so he offered pseudonyms, Schmitt and Duval, and finally his code name. And of course PR12 had his code name, but not Danvers, perhaps he wasn’t important enough to warrant a code name, so they had to actually use his real name, if Danvers was his real name. But I think we have to take it at face value that it was. He wasn’t even important enough to get biscuits with his morning elevenses. There was a cup in its saucer but no tea plate. Danvers predecessor was allowed biscuits with his elevenses tea, but perhaps by the time Danvers was transferred from the typing pool to the reception office, cut backs meant that tea was served without biscuits! I am reminded of the episode of ‘Rumpole And The Official Secrets’ in which there was a scandal about the cost of biscuits within government departments.
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The Electrician And The Gardener
He was sorry for the intrusion, electrics who went to ‘6 Private’ in
order to replace the broken loudspeaker. The Prisoner fancied a walk, so he
went out into The Village and eventually encountered a gardener who is the
spitting image of the electrician! In order to account for this sudden
encounter, it was once suggested by one fan of ‘the Prisoner’ that there was an
underground tunnel by which the electrician was able to get to the woods before
the Prisoner and ready himself for the encounter, picking up a trug along the
way “Mind the plants sir, they’re new.” Which begs the question, to what
purpose, to disorientate the Prisoner perhaps? Although I always thought the
idea of there being a tunnel was stretching things rather! And yet later in the
series we do discover that there is a network of tunnels beneath The Village,
so perhaps things aren’t stretched so far after all!
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Thursday, 30 March 2017
It’s Diabolical!
No extreme measures to be used yet, is what the new Number 2 said in his
report. I wonder what those extreme measures might be? Only I should have
thought the techniques used against the Prisoner, known as Number 6, since the
day of his arrival were extreme enough. Such as not only getting into his
dreams, but manipulating them. Or taking away his identity so that they could
give him a new one, a new number, a change in appearance in order that one day
he would wake up as someone else who bears a remarkable resemblance to Number
6. Or perhaps the worst thing, to transfer his mind into another man’s body!
What could be more extreme than that?
Number 2 told the Prisoner that he agreed that they had taken quite a liberty in having brought him to the Village. But seeing as he was there....well it wasn’t in Number 2’s remit to let a prisoner leave The Village simply because he thought they had taken quite a liberty. And besides how do we know he’s speaking the truth in what he says? After all one of his predecessors once gave the toast “To hell with The Village,” and he was speaking with forked tongue! Mind you I think it might be possible to believe one of Number 2’s predecessors when he explained to Madam Professor about Number 6. That he wants what most of them want ultimately...... to escape! He seemed to be sincere in his somewhat unguarded words.
Number 2 told the Prisoner that he agreed that they had taken quite a liberty in having brought him to the Village. But seeing as he was there....well it wasn’t in Number 2’s remit to let a prisoner leave The Village simply because he thought they had taken quite a liberty. And besides how do we know he’s speaking the truth in what he says? After all one of his predecessors once gave the toast “To hell with The Village,” and he was speaking with forked tongue! Mind you I think it might be possible to believe one of Number 2’s predecessors when he explained to Madam Professor about Number 6. That he wants what most of them want ultimately...... to escape! He seemed to be sincere in his somewhat unguarded words.
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