Vera

Brenda Blethyn portrays Vera's character just as I imagine her in Anne Cleeve's books. She's sometimes mistaken for a bag lady, but she always manages to catch the criminal. Can't imagine a modern DI calling an interviewee 'pet', can you?

It sure is.

As an exiled Geordie I just love seeing the beaches of my childhood. Northumberland is a stunningly beautiful county.

I've just seen a sign for Whitley Baŷ. Northumberland. x

I think the location is Northumberland.

Yes just seen the end. No real affiliation to Geordie derby's,living near Manchester we have one of our own but DH just loves football .

I presume that's Newcastle/Sunderland ann?

I love Vera!

The beaches look fab ..... where exactly is it filmed, does anyone know?

"We" are having to watch a taped football match as we have been out. So Vera is being taped at 8pm and we will watch half after the footie and the rest tomorrow as,being very old, we go to bed quite early.

I think we'll split Vera in two and watch the second half on +1 after Poldark.

I've given up on Indian Summers.

Thankfully I do not have to make these choices- I will only be watching Vera.

I'm going to watch it tomorrow on catch-up. I want to watch Poldark live tonight.

Don't forget you can get Indian Summers on +1

Yes I'm looking forward to it too. Thank God for Youview box -Poldark, Indian Summers and now Vera! Good viewing for a Sunday night.

Vera's back tonight - with a hunky new sidekick too, he was briefly the main character's boyfriend in Stella.

I caaaan't believe I wrote the OP above, I'm looking forward to Vera tonight. I must have been in a bad mood in April a year ago.

What, tv?

Good for you gillybob it can be become quite addictive

I am not a huge TV fan and have only just discovered her sparkygran so not giving up on it just yet.

Ladies please I love Vera and Durhamjen lucky old you living in such glorious countryside. Everybody pl don`t switch off otherwise there will be no more and I for will miss her.

Oh I had her as a policeman's daughter durhamjen out to prove that a women can do the job equally well better than any man !

The main character "Vera" is meant to be scruffy and overweight belzebu

The episodes are far too long. I bet most of us have dozed off half way through. I find the main character to be a matronly, scruffy and overweight woman rather than a high flying detective with a needle sharp brain, streets ahead of her male associates in the grey matter department. The story lines are very thin and a 1 hour allocation would make for a better, more gripping play.

I hear people saying Pet every day in my local shops.
I think that Vera must be a Northumbrian who went to a posh school.
When I first met my husband I could not understand a word he said, and his parents were worse. His accent got more understandable the more he had to mix with other people from different areas. Their accents never did. His uncle, born in Ashington and now living in Wales, calls everyone Pet.

(Sorry, should have said 'north of England'!!)

Sounds very like the term 'love', used a lot in the north, and still going strong I'm glad to say!

I was chatting with my grandma this afternoon about the term of endearment "Pet" and she says it's was very common at one time and you heard it quite a lot in shops "thanks very much pet" or "that will be 10 shillings pet" it was also used quite a bit by older women talking to young people (when they didn't know their name) "that was very nice, thanks pet" "could I have 2 first class stamps please pet" etc.

Anyway it is a very old fashioned term and not one you hear very often these days.