Vera

Ay up, annsixty, my duck! I'm not likely to be heading that way again, either. I think I'd find it hard to live in a city now, though!

Marelli another one here who misses Nottingham.I lived near and worked in the city for ten years and have nothing to take me back now. So ay up me duck to you.

I love the series, love the views and love being called 'Pet'. I don't come from Newcastle but the series almost makes me wish I did.

I'm wondering if I have been watching the same series now - I love it. It's atmospheric, and gives the characters involved time to develop, plus the scenery is beautiful. As for the Geordie accent, it may be a bad one, I can't tell, but at least I can understand it. My FiL is a Geordie who rarely lapses into his boyhood accent, but when he does (at funerals when we all go up there) I cannot understand a word - and they do call each other Pet. I get called it a lot because I think it is used when they can't remember a name .

I don't see that it's any slower than a Morse or a Poirot. Both of those are full of tiny details and are also beautiful to watch.

As it was where I came from, number! ''Ay-up, m'duck"...... I have to say, I do quite like to hear it, though I don't very often now , as I'm never down in Nottingham these days.

I`d rather be called Pet than Duck, which is what`s used in these parts.

gillybob

Oh I hate it POGS It used to be a common term of endearment when I was a child but you very rarely hear it these days. The Newcastle Geordie accent is a bit stronger than the (South)Tyne Geordie accent where I come from so perhaps that's what it is.

Well my husband's family say PET and they are Newcastle born and bred. Perhaps it depends which part you come from?

Either way I like it.

A Geordie accent is very easy newist so easy infact that (even) I picked it up as soon as I could talk!

Bloomin' heck what planet am I on?????

My post should have read we DO NOT call each other pet [crazy woman emoticon]

I watch Vera only to see snippets of the area where I was born, it does jump about a bit, Tynemouth then Marsden beaches, giving the impression its all one place. I keep shouting to my OH I used to play there, or I used to get the ferry there, so I will continue to watch. Her accent is awful, as far as I know A Geordie accent is very difficult to learn

That was MrA's comment Merlot as Vera crouched uncomfortably behind a table, frantically texting her colleagues for help when one of the baddies had entered the victim's flat that she was searching by torchlight
(It might not have been a baddie but I had lost the plot by then)

Don't detective inspectors have to pass some sort of fitness test? She waddles more than I do with arthritic knees.

I found her confusing Gilly because of that accent. She seemed to be slightly stupid, I think because the accent was such a distraction, but perhaps that was part of the character - faux naive?
And do Detective Inspectors of either sex wander the moors wearing such silly attire? Wouldn't she have been better in a Berghaus technical jacket, a beanie and waterproof trousers?

Watched it for the second time last night. The story line was a little bit better than last week although Vera's Geordie accent was equally as terrible.

I am not sure what age Vera is meant to be POGS? But as a Geordie born and bred, we do call each other "Pet".

I like Vera. I like the fact she is a normal, middle aged woman who has a lovely accent. The stories aren't that bad, I've seen worse.

I'm just amazed no idiot has decided she is not PC when she uses the word PET and want's it removed from our screens immediately.

I watched Vera for the first time last night.
I've always liked Brenda Blethyn, but I agree with you Gilly, her accent was dreadful, and I'm not even a Northumberland native!

Vera like Morse needs two hours, we learn something of the characters and this makes it far more interesting than the one hour cop, shot, dead, programmes

I enjoy the programme very much, just wondered if anyone else had had problems with the sub-titles, perhaps not everyone uses them. We have them on all the time.

Stories, I meant.

I like it, too. Have recorded and watched both stries so far, and enjoyed them both. Maybe we watch them to see the landscape that we know?
I know Vera plods, but she's supposed to, surely. Some of the other police programmes are far too fast for me to keep up with.

I love it too. I think Blenda Blethyn is a great actress, and the whole cast of this drama is very good.

Well I love it, so there!

Funnily enough I watched Vera for the first time on Sunday and found myself picking away at her "Geordie" accent which really wasn't very good at all.