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The Big Allotment Challenge BBC2 April
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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/style/homes_and_gardens/gardening/article1392443.ece
So,we are to have another Bake Off, Sewing Bee Type prog but featuring allotments and the Cheshire Cat like Fern Britton.
You can bet your life there won't be any real allotment holders like the old boys we have around here. People who have grown stuff for years to supplement their family's budget. Not the trendies or the tree huggers just genuine people on low incomes who don't have enough space at home to grow stuff.
I imagine there'll be a yummy mummy, a gay person, a black person, an elderly person, a trendy young person with piercings and tattooes ...... And Fern simpering away with her head on one side like she's hanging on their every word. These shows nearly all have this sort of format.
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They'll have shiny garden tools and trendy colourful wellies. I can see it now. The old boys here have baling twine holding their trousers up and old black wellies. A rickety old bike with a wire shopping basket tied on the front for their produce usually completes the picture.;-). Mind you they know what their talking about!!
So,we are to have another Bake Off, Sewing Bee Type prog but featuring allotments and the Cheshire Cat like Fern Britton.
You can bet your life there won't be any real allotment holders like the old boys we have around here. People who have grown stuff for years to supplement their family's budget. Not the trendies or the tree huggers just genuine people on low incomes who don't have enough space at home to grow stuff.
I imagine there'll be a yummy mummy, a gay person, a black person, an elderly person, a trendy young person with piercings and tattooes ...... And Fern simpering away with her head on one side like she's hanging on their every word. These shows nearly all have this sort of format.
:DThey'll have shiny garden tools and trendy colourful wellies. I can see it now. The old boys here have baling twine holding their trousers up and old black wellies. A rickety old bike with a wire shopping basket tied on the front for their produce usually completes the picture.;-). Mind you they know what their talking about!!
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Cannot watch anything she is in.
I will watch it to see if my predictions are right! I'll just have to cover my eyes when the Cheshire cat comes on.
And see if she harps on about her nice slim figure that she got from bike riding and Ryvita's. Ooops silly me is was a gastric band ^_^
Woof ! Woof ! *Chases that dang pussy cat off* :cool: ;-)
And of course her "healthy eating" ...... Must be eating all that veg that got her this job.;-)
Remember her flop of a tea time show which they axed? She treated the audience to her doing the splits ..:o.. Wonder what she'll be doing on the allotment? Maybe leapfrogging the manure sacks or hop skip and jumping the cabbage patch. She is such a show off.
Does everything have to be a competition?? My allotment is somewhere I go to escape the pressures of life, not to enter into competitive Carrot growing.
Seemingly so. These progs all take a similar format and therefore attract a similar sort of person to participate. They know a bit about things but think they know a lot.
They think it's trendy to do things like gardening and baking whereas some of us have done it from necessity for years. For many the novelty wears off in a very short time and their allotments are left littered with weeds, discarded flowery wellies and rustic garden benches.
Instead, we had a mish-mash of a prog with some growing - and then the poor things had to cook and flower arrange! For goodness sake - since when it is de rigeur that a good gardener is also a good cook and is artisitic?
Someone at the BBC has lost the plot (literally).
Do you know if she did this? If so hope she fell flat on her face
I like JoJo, she makes me laugh!
Knows what she's doing too...nice tomatoes!