Kominsky's series Paint Along with Nancy comprised 52 half-hour programmes made by HTV West from 1974 to 1978, and transmitted on ITV network in the United Kingdom. Her oil painting lessons were followed with enthusiasm by housewives, shift workers, and schoolchildren, many of whom would race home after school to switch on the television set to watch her demonstrate her unusual system of painting.

Inspector Google informs me that the great Norman Vaughan hosted an Anglia TV version of Mr and Mrs but I'll have to take his word for it on this. Mr and Mrs has gone the way of Catchphrase in that their previous, venerable hosts have now been replaced by younger models. A television studio is no country for old men nowadays. I'll skip over Rainbow because I was terrified of Bungle (not to mention Rod, Jane and Freddie) so I'll move on to Pipkins. I liked Pipkins. It briefly starred Jolly George Woodbridge as toy shop owner Inigo Pipkin but it wasn't long before he succumbed to the inevitable and was replaced by a character called Johnny, or as the brummie Pig would say, Johnnoy. If there's one thing I have learned from Hartley Hare it's that no one likes a smart alec and this is something I have carried with me and tried to apply, sometimes unsuccessfully, ever since. a UK television programme made by HTV West from 1974 to 1978 and presented to the ITV network in a day time slot - usually 12.30 or 3.30pm. The programme purported to teach the viewer to paint and the lessons consisted of Philadelphian artist, Nancy Kominsky painting a picture in twenty-five minutes.It was a dark day when I set Inspector Google the task of finding information about Dorothy Sleightholme. He briefly looked pleased with himself when he presented a clip from that there YouTube but he was soon crestfallen when I pointed out that this featured Dorothy's younger, more Scottish, replacement Grace Mulligan. He then tried to wrong-foot me by declaring that Dorothy died in a car accident sometime in the 1980s. It took me a few seconds to compose myself on hearing this because I had always pictured Dorothy fading away gracefully, surrounded by her loving family and half a dozen yorkshires. Inspector Google is not always reliable in his findings but, if Dorothy did perish in this way, then as someone once said about the death of someone else, I don't have to believe it if I don't want to.

Nancy Circelli Kominsky was an Italian-American artist and television presenter, who found fame in Britain with her paint-along series in the 1970s. Nancy Circelli Kominsky (born Emanuella Agneta Circelli, 24 September 1915 – 11 March 2011 [1]) was an Italian-American artist and television presenter, who found fame in Britain with her paint-along series in the 1970s. Kominsky died in London on March 11, 2011, at the age of 95, predeceased by her husband on January 29, 2011, at the age of 90.Hello, this is my mam speaking. I'm sorry but young Andrew won't be in school today as I'm not feeling very well. Must go now, she has to go to work.' Damn but I could never get the hang of switching from the first to the third person when making bogus phone calls, and to tell the truth, I still can't. Alan Taylor was an HTV man through and through and, sure enough, he also hosted the HTV version of Mr and Mrs, another programme which sometimes filled the 12.30 slot. He had his hands full on this, swapping unfunny jokes with American usherette Linda Lou Allen, based mainly on Ms Allen's misunderstanding of British idioms. It is unlikely that the telephone monologue quoted above ever took place because, for one thing we didn't have a phone and, for two things, mam didn't have a job but it's a handy way to introduce this reflection of taking a day off school. I am well into middle age now so my school years happened during the mid to late 1970s. Nancy Kominsky was the author of 12 books on painting and pastels along with the autobiography This Is How I Did It - A Self-portrait of Nancy Kominsky. The book was a 2010 prize winner in the Writer's Digest Annual Competition for memoirs. Well, Mrs Robinson from Haltwhistle,' he would say, 'the second question is about how your husband does up his shirt. Does he button it from the top down, does he button it from the bottom up, does he button it from the middle up and then from the middle down, or does he have no preference whatsoever when it comes to buttoning up his shirt?'