Adult Babies in mainstream literature

[Angela M...]

Yes it was about six episodes and I may be able to get a friend to convert it for me. He did two DVD's for me a few years ago that I got from Britain. One was Shirley Valentine and the other was a film my mother was in back in 1948. The newer one came out great and it was my mothers favourite but the older one with mom in it was not great to start with and was a cloudy copy.

[Betty]

Got it. Processing them now. The first 3 episodes will be about only 230mb in size combined. That means even on a slow dialup all 3 can be downloaded in 80 minutes, or under a half hour per episode, or on some slow DSL or data connections under 2 minutes for 3 episodes. I'll put them in 2, 3 episode packs.

I'll private message the download link to anyone who wants them through our private messaging here.

[Betty]

I sent you & Bertha a private message about a link to the series. Let me know if you got it, & the link works. I'm working on a link to the last half of the series too. It should be ready by this morning.

It turns out the Amazon DVD of it is only VCD quality, or only a little better than old VHS quality.

[Betty]

I just sent both of another message & link for episodes 4-6 through the board's messaging system. Let me know if the links do or don't work. The first minute or so of the video looks a bit rough until the browser or player's cache & buffer catch up, but it gets much better after that.

[Angela M...]

Got it today and just watched episode four, the one with the adult baby scene in it. It is pretty clear but at this point I did not think I would ever see it again. Thanks so much for all the work you did to bring it to us.

[Betty]

I guess right clicking to save/download the video doesn't work with some browsers or settings. When you click the link to view/watch it, if you place your mouse cursor near the top of the page, you'll see an arrow pointing downward. Click on that arrow to download & save the videos. It will say it 's too large to scan for viruses. Click download anyway. If it had a virus, I would know about it. It was processed & compressed in my house.

[Weezy1234]

Wow! This topic took off. I loved the Cement Garden. I watched the movie then read the book. I will have to look at some of the other books mentioned. 

[Betty]

I have to admit, finding a copy of Blott on the Landscape was for personal reasons too rather than just for our users. When 2 regular members say they enjoyed it, & there was a kinky episode as well, it sparked my interest because I never heard of it before. Once I got a copy of it, I just briefly scanned through them to get an idea of what would be the best method to process & compress them, as they all seemed about VHS or VCD quality.

I finally watched the whole first episode through & enjoyed it. It is very old British humor, so not for everybody. Our local PBS station, & nearby Canadian stations carried a lot of BBC & other UK programming so I'm quite used to it.

I get a laugh out of when the newer Dr. Who series runs in the USA, they usually remind people about the caption feature for those Americans who can't understand the accent & language. Golly, your English has to be pretty bad if you can't understand ordinary, typical British English. You have to have lived a very sheltered life or been living under a rock to not understand the British. After all, British English is the the original official English, where we in America are actually speaking a slang of it.

Anyway, those interested in seeing the old Blott on the Landscape series let me know & I'll send you a link to download it. But hurry, because it will be deleted soon. It's 6 episodes at almost an hour long per episode. It's in 2 packets of 3 episodes each at about 230mb per packet. Expect about VHS quality. Watchable if you sit back a couple meters (yards) from a big TV, or fine on any small screen & portable.

[Angela M...]

Thank you Betty for getting this for us. I finally watched all six episodes and it is just as good as I remember it.  I have not downloaded it yet as I have come down with something that has sidelined me big time. I have a nasty case of Shingles all over my chest and back and it hurts like hell. Only things I can do is bed rest and take all the meds and bathe the rash with alcohol. Can't take too many pain meds as they bother my stomach. Doc told me it will last about three or four weeks but I will go mad by then. Take care and hopefully I will check in soon.

[Betty]

Another reason to legalize pot. It relieves pain, nausea, & stomach problems. With my COPD, I could never smoke anything though. In NY state the legal medical version will be in pill or liquid extract form, made by the pharmaceutical companies. That way the wealthy health care companies can charge us $10-$20 per pill, & $5 per drop, while the plant only costs pennies per pound to grow. By putting the pharmaceutical companies in charge of it, puts it's price out of reach of most people unless they buy it illegally on the street from criminals.

Ouch! Those damn shingles again? Who would have thought a childhood case of chicken pox would come back decades later to haunt people in the form of shingles? My sister just 3 years younger than me is pretty lucky. She had chicken pox as a kid, but she's never had it come back as shingles yet. Both my Mom & Dad had chicken pox as kids, but never got shingles. So maybe there's some hereditary resistance to it there. That's why it was all new news to me that chicken pox causes shingles.

But I didn't know a modern day flu can kill you either, & cause permanent scar tissue on your lungs until it killed me for a minute (I was dead twice for almost a minute in the hospital) & ruined my lungs for life. Of course breathing fumes, dirty & polluted air at my next job made it much worse, but the flu initially gave me COPD first.

Get well soon!