Comments for Matron's Blog http://blog.acountrypractice.com Wandin Valley Bush Nursing Hospital and a Country Practice updates and news Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:30:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 Comment on About by Paul http://blog.acountrypractice.com/about/#comment-887 Paul Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:39:32 +0000 http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?page_id=2#comment-887 Hello All ACP Fans, Well, this site is intriguing, as I have been able to post a couple of messages over the past day or so, on different parts of this site. So, I am repeating myself with what I am saying. Great to find out that there are fellow admirers of the series. I remember watching this series in the 80's in the UK, recording it on VHS and watching it at week-ends. Having received all the currently available DVD's, those memories are coming back, just as if it was yesterday. I watched it as a qualified nurse then, (still am), and it so reminds me of the nursing/doctor culture that existed at that time. I mention in another message, that watching it is deliciously corny. I trained as a nurse at the back-end of the old nurse training in the UK, qualifying as an "SRN" in 1978. Much of the conversations I hear between the staff at Wandin Valley do seem to reflect the reality of the hospital world at that time. Of course, that has all changed, and speaking for myself, that is one of the reasons I left mainstream nursing within the NHS. I am still only on Series 2, and relish getting to grips with the characters that are developing so well. Best wishes all Paul Hello All ACP Fans,

Well, this site is intriguing, as I have been able to post a couple of messages over the past day or so, on different parts of this site. So, I am repeating myself with what I am saying. Great to find out that there are fellow admirers of the series.

I remember watching this series in the 80’s in the UK, recording it on VHS and watching it at week-ends. Having received all the currently available DVD’s, those memories are coming back, just as if it was yesterday.

I watched it as a qualified nurse then, (still am), and it so reminds me of the nursing/doctor culture that existed at that time. I mention in another message, that watching it is deliciously corny. I trained as a nurse at the back-end of the old nurse training in the UK, qualifying as an “SRN” in 1978. Much of the conversations I hear between the staff at Wandin Valley do seem to reflect the reality of the hospital world at that time. Of course, that has all changed, and speaking for myself, that is one of the reasons I left mainstream nursing within the NHS.

I am still only on Series 2, and relish getting to grips with the characters that are developing so well.

Best wishes all

Paul

]]> Comment on Greedy or ignorant? by admin http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2008/06/17/greedy-or-ignorant/#comment-878 admin Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:54:22 +0000 http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?p=38#comment-878 Whoops. That tells you how often I look at the comments here instead of on the blog's dashboard. (This is the problem with customizing a theme.) I'll work on that. Whoops. That tells you how often I look at the comments here instead of on the blog’s dashboard. (This is the problem with customizing a theme.) I’ll work on that.

]]> Comment on Greedy or ignorant? by canonbie http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2008/06/17/greedy-or-ignorant/#comment-877 canonbie Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:34:44 +0000 http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?p=38#comment-877 Hello from the UK Just found this site after Googling "Wandin Valley", after watching an episode on DVD from Series 2. Just received the DVD's up to Series 5. Quite expensive really, but well worth it. I have been wondering if there was a dedicated site, and obviously there is/has been. I loved this series when it was aired in the UK in the 80's. It is so deliciously corny and so watchable. I rate it along with Sons and Daughters, and The Sullivans, which all my family loved when it was shown in England. I haven't trawled through the menu of the site yet. I just wanted to post a message as I was so pleased that this great series does have a following. n.b. Please could you change the colour background? The text is difficult to read against the green wallpaper. Paul Cook, Norfolk, UK Hello from the UK

Just found this site after Googling “Wandin Valley”, after watching an episode on DVD from Series 2. Just received the DVD’s up to Series 5. Quite expensive really, but well worth it. I have been wondering if there was a dedicated site, and obviously there is/has been. I loved this series when it was aired in the UK in the 80’s. It is so deliciously corny and so watchable. I rate it along with Sons and Daughters, and The Sullivans, which all my family loved when it was shown in England.

I haven’t trawled through the menu of the site yet. I just wanted to post a message as I was so pleased that this great series does have a following.

n.b. Please could you change the colour background? The text is difficult to read against the green wallpaper.

Paul Cook, Norfolk, UK

]]> Comment on Greedy or ignorant? by ACP Fan http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2008/06/17/greedy-or-ignorant/#comment-217 ACP Fan Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:42:56 +0000 http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?p=38#comment-217 I too have been watching the series on the hallmark channel and am also getting frustrated with the powers that be in as soon as they get to the episodes for the new year they go back and repeat the old episodes. At the moment they are showing episodes from 1990. Lets hope we finally get to watch the whole seasons. Thanks for a truly wonderful site to come and see what is happening with a great show. I too have been watching the series on the hallmark channel and am also getting frustrated with the powers that be in as soon as they get to the episodes for the new year they go back and repeat the old episodes.
At the moment they are showing episodes from 1990. Lets hope we finally get to watch the whole seasons.
Thanks for a truly wonderful site to come and see what is happening with a great show.

]]> Comment on Greedy or ignorant? by Pet Wombat http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2008/06/17/greedy-or-ignorant/#comment-155 Pet Wombat Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:29:43 +0000 http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?p=38#comment-155 Hello I am so glad I found your website. What a slice of the past for me. I thought you should remember Fatso in the cast but then i am biased. Were those articles on eBay all original? Good content can be hard to find, but it looks like you probably had most of the topics already covered :) Hello

I am so glad I found your website. What a slice of the past for me. I thought you should remember Fatso in the cast but then i am biased. Were those articles on eBay all original? Good content can be hard to find, but it looks like you probably had most of the topics already covered :)

]]> Comment on Greedy or ignorant? by isaac http://blog.acountrypractice.com/2008/06/17/greedy-or-ignorant/#comment-6 isaac Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:39:29 +0000 http://blog.acountrypractice.com/?p=38#comment-6 bring A country practice back!!!!!!!!!! i think ACP tackled alot of the issues of the day, back in the 1980s, i think we need to revive it, same setting, same style, new characters, a new terance, a new molly jones, it would be like falling inlove all over again, re-capture our imaginations, , im so sick of american rubish, reality tv shows, and i dont want insight into the melbourne under-world (under-belly) bring A country practice back!!!!!!!!!!

i think ACP tackled alot of the issues of the day, back in the 1980s, i think we need to revive it, same setting, same style, new characters, a new terance, a new molly jones,

it would be like falling inlove all over again, re-capture our imaginations, , im so sick of american rubish, reality tv shows, and i dont want insight into the melbourne under-world (under-belly)

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