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You have surfed into a tribute site to some of the best in BBC comedies, captured here in the form of Windows95 Desktop Themes for you to download and enjoy. This page is my tribute that hit BBC TV comedy show Keeping Up Appearances featuring the talents of Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift as the principle characters Hyacinth and Richard Bucket pronounced Bouquet. The following picture will introduce you to our formidable characters Hyacinth and Richard Bucket - err, sorry about that, Bouquet!....

Hyacinth Bucket (err, sorry Bouquet) is an overbearing middle class snob of the first order! She is so obsessed with etiquette and breeding that she has made her husband Richard's life miserable. Their house is spotless, their car is perfection and they never use the back door of their house. Why, she even puts her empty milk bottles in the dishwasher so they are spotless on the doorstep!

The rest of her family is another story. Her sister Daisy's husband Onslow is a slob and her lecherous father is a drunk. Imagine her shame when he is arrested pedaling naked on his bike while chasing a milk woman. clever....

As you may have guessed from this thumbnail sketch, the main theme running throughout this stereo typical reflection of an aspiring middle-class English household is the often obsessive behaviour of Hyacinth Bucket (whoops, Bouquet) who seemingly will go to any length to impress her long suffering neighbours, the Vicar and her various charitable activity groups to name but a few.

She is, of course, hammered in this task by her sisters husband, slob-in-law Onslow played by Geoffrey Hughes who is personification of sloth and who has yet to reach the exalted ranks of the middle classes. Her husband Richard is continually embarrassed by Hyacinths antics and this BBC sitcom never ceases to amuse.

The first series of Keeping Up Appearances appeared on British TV in 1990 and was followed by further series in 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995. Christmas Specials appeared in 1993, 1994 and 1995 and the show is currently airing as re-runs on BBC1.

Passionate about comedy? - add a comment to the Keeping Up Appearances Forum at ezboard.com

Keeping Up Appearances Forum

Links to more Keeping Up Appearances Web Sites

Here are a few links to some other web sites you can visit to learn more of this show. If you enjoyed the work of the webmaster supporting these pages be sure to leave your calling card and tell them....

Visit the first Keeping Up Appearances web page at britcom.com.

Visit Mathew's Keeping Up Appearances web site at GeoCities.

Visit this Keeping Up Appearances website. Episode guides and more.

Visit the British Comedy Club KUA web site.

Buy Keeping Up Appearances Videos, Books and Audio Books On-line

The sixth desktop theme in a series featuring hit BBC TV comedies stars Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift as the hapless middle class couple Hyacinth and Richard Bucket (pronounced "Bouquet"). Hyacinth delights in Keeping Up Appearances.

The Keeping Up Appearances Desktop Theme features themed startup and shutdown screens, 800x600 hi-colour wallpaper, animated cursors, new desktop icons and a themed screensaver. Full installation instructions are provided and the whole theme is available in a convenient zip file to download.

If you don't have a copy of Microsoft Plus! help is at hand in the form of Desktop Themes, a shareware desktop theme manager published by Jonathan Potter at Left Side Software. To get your copy of this excellent shareware theme manager click on to get your copy.

The following thumbnails will give you an idea of the screens used in this theme.

Download the Keeping Up Appearances Desktop Theme Version 1.0 (1.25Mb).

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