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Old 13-06-2016, 08:45
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You think that toilet was installed in the 16th century?
The Château was last lived in during the mid 1970s. Surely it had been updated since the 16th century.

Besides, this has already been explained up-thread.
I thought the place was built in the 1860s, or did I hear wrong? They seem to have no definite plan and do things as they think of them. Shouldn't they have converted an outbuilding to live in, then got on with the house? While they had the digger they could have dug a hole for a septic tank. Raise money by having some 'glamping' in the grounds and rent fishing in the moat. One day one of those delivery lorries will knock the gateposts down.As for the helter-skelter, he's an engineer, and they work to far finer tolerances than carpenters yet he had wacking great gaps and 'bodged' with a hammer. Perhaps his exhaustion was showing.

I just feel like shaking the pair of them
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Old 13-06-2016, 12:20
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Sorry havnt read all the quotes on here.....but if you look at their website they both seem incredibly motivated, adventurous, hard working business people!
Obviously the editing makes it look like they did the work in a few weeks -in fact Mr Moustache spent a few months filming for National Geographic channel in USA during the renovation work.
I just LOVE Mrs Kimono's style...using the wallpaper like she did could only be done by someone with a very sharp, artistic eye...stunning!.
Looking forward to next weeks final installment.
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Old 13-06-2016, 16:51
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I thought the place was built in the 1860s, or did I hear wrong? They seem to have no definite plan and do things as they think of them. Shouldn't they have converted an outbuilding to live in, then got on with the house?
That's what I would have done too, but the need to finish (at least part of) the house to have their wedding in it somewhat precluded that.

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Old 13-06-2016, 17:05
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I'm watching on +1. The place they want to live is a desert in France, No-one lives there (except Brits who find it cheap). .
IIRC they said it was in the Pays de la Loire which at a population density of 114 is about the same as North Yorks.

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Old 13-06-2016, 20:18
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Yeh, that kind of makes you wonder what sort of Brexit blowback might happen after June 23rd, when France, Spain and Ireland send 1.2 million Dick and Angel types back to Blighty.
Wow, Project Fear is working well I see.
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Old 14-06-2016, 00:37
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Not project fear baby, I hope the vote is Leave in the referendum. Here in Ireland, if sterling slumps to equal exchange rate with euro, we all get a 25% reduction in food, clothing and electrical goods prices.

Go Boris, you mad ffer go !!!!!!!!!
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Old 14-06-2016, 04:04
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I thought the place was built in the 1860s, or did I hear wrong? They seem to have no definite plan and do things as they think of them. Shouldn't they have converted an outbuilding to live in, then got on with the house? While they had the digger they could have dug a hole for a septic tank. Raise money by having some 'glamping' in the grounds and rent fishing in the moat. One day one of those delivery lorries will knock the gateposts down.As for the helter-skelter, he's an engineer, and they work to far finer tolerances than carpenters yet he had wacking great gaps and 'bodged' with a hammer. Perhaps his exhaustion was showing.

I just feel like shaking the pair of them
It was poster tim123 who mentioned the 16th century. I was being factitious by replying in kind. You heard correctly .... They do need shaking. Both are slightly bonkers I think.

At least we found out why they are allowed to knock down whatever they like without consulting anyone. The château is not listed.
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Old 14-06-2016, 10:56
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Sorry havnt read all the quotes on here.....but if you look at their website they both seem incredibly motivated, adventurous, hard working business people!
Obviously the editing makes it look like they did the work in a few weeks -in fact Mr Moustache spent a few months filming for National Geographic channel in USA during the renovation work.
I just LOVE Mrs Kimono's style...using the wallpaper like she did could only be done by someone with a very sharp, artistic eye...stunning!.
Looking forward to next weeks final installment.
He obviously went back home to get a substantial bank loan....

I think it's bloody awful what she's doing to that building, so far anyway. As for hard working - how strenuous is it offering classes in decorating or painting? we knew a couple who were both artists with wonderful credentials, bought a beautiful property in rural Burgundy and offered b&b painting weekends and never made a penny out of the venture. They're now back in Blighty and have been for a while now. Location has a lot to do with how well you do...these two are in the middle of nowhere and they're only aiming at a British market. Too niche, I doubt the demand is there these days. Winters are bleak, they are rural and isolated and nobody wants to go during the cold, wet months. Rural France in the summer let alone the winter can drive you mad once the novelty has worn off being there. I reckon she will get bored of the whole thing.

Basically people like these two are after other people to fund their lifestyle choice. I give it a year, 2 at most.
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Old 14-06-2016, 17:01
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Dick Strawbridge has been on the tv lots of times in several things; Ive been following this as hes a bit of an eccentric and reminds me a bit of Fred Dibnah, in the engineering etc.
Last one next week!
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Old 14-06-2016, 17:37
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I got a bit confused watching this programme.
Several times the narrator told us ... ...
...
As usual with programmes like these, I get the impression we are not getting the full story.
EvilEd your thoughts were mine exactly.
It's as if programme makers are pathologically afraid to give the viewers any honest information.
They said they spent £18,000 on the heating system, yet all we saw was one bloke on the roof doing a single flue-liner : then magic bingo! A funace is burning fiercely!
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Old 14-06-2016, 17:58
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A pair of annoying, pretentious nutters. This series tell us nothing really relevant about the renovation and are we to believe that they did that all themselves. A load of pretentious crap.
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Old 14-06-2016, 20:46
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Need to see some explanation of where the money's coming from this week otherwise it's like Homes by the Sea - Property porn for the well-off.
Tracy-Anne told us he went off to do a paying job elsewhere. Bit vague but I suspect the real details would reveal what a sham the whole endeavour is.
He'll have a pension from the army; his rank was Lt Colonel so it may be a decent amount... though not enough to renovate a château Even so, as has been said, going off to do ad hoc jobs will refill the bank account and Angel has her parents for support during Dick's absences.

...but if you look at their website they both seem incredibly motivated, adventurous, hard working business people!
As opposed to incredibly motivated, hardworking doctors, nurses, carers...? The Strawbridges are playing at renovating a château. It's as hard - or easy - as they choose to make it. And the wine's cheap.

But none of the negative stuff makes good tele - the purpose of shows like this is to feed the viewers' fantasies... not to pour cold water on them.

Wow, Project Fear is working well I see.
Sun readers... what can you do...?
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Old 15-06-2016, 03:08
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Dick Strawbridge has been on the tv lots of times in several things; Ive been following this as hes a bit of an eccentric and reminds me a bit of Fred Dibnah, in the engineering etc.
Last one next week!
Yep, you missed earlier posts I think. Some of us were pointing out that Dicky and his eyebrowless new missus are perhaps a made-for-reality-television couple. One of the other posters said that they had the same talent agent.

Twenty five years ago, these types of people were on The Word, licking someones nether regions to get some screen time.
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Old 16-06-2016, 22:20
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The kitchen looked very dark. Not a room you'd want to spend much time with.

How does the filming for this work?

Looks like they only film a few days each month.
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Old 18-06-2016, 04:26
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To be honest, it is the grimmest looking "chateau", I have ever seen. A mid-19th century mock-schlock gothic mess in a part of France, (other posters have said), that is left to English expats, as the landscape is quite unattractive.
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Old 18-06-2016, 06:51
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Yep, you missed earlier posts I think. Some of us were pointing out that Dicky and his eyebrowless new missus are perhaps a made-for-reality-television couple. One of the other posters said that they had the same talent agent.

Twenty five years ago, these types of people were on The Word, licking someones nether regions to get some screen time.
Brilliant!
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Old 18-06-2016, 20:25
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I didn't realise Dick had already done one of these renovation shows with a different wife and children. Awkward.
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Old 18-06-2016, 21:07
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I remember the eco house thing, he had the whole family on telly. Some of the 'amazing engineering builds' on that show were embarrassingly shyte.

I also saw the hungry sailors he did with son James, but only one series I think, then James went off and did his own thing - I think he's he into Cornish pasties these days.

He's just a famewhore, I think Mr Strawbridge has delusions of being the UK equiv of the Kartrashians. (i hope him and Angela don't release a tape)
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Old 19-06-2016, 05:41
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I didn't realise Dick had already done one of these renovation shows with a different wife and children. Awkward.
I doubt Tricky Dicky has a single awkward feeling brain cell. One could well imagine that if the screen-hungry NordenIrishman was asked by the producers to ditch his latest wife in order to get a second season, he would not even blink.

Her lack of eyebrows is giving me the heebie geebies.
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Old 19-06-2016, 18:58
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Last part of this farce tonight.
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Old 19-06-2016, 19:16
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I don't like the butterflies giraffe etc its pants
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Old 19-06-2016, 19:18
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Every day's just dress-up day for her isn't it? No sense of her taking it seriously and pitching in effectively. Just ****ing around with wallpaper, stuffed giraffes, butterflies and pineapple chandeliers.
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Old 19-06-2016, 19:24
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And I am not liking how they are making it UK v France
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Old 19-06-2016, 19:26
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I don't like the butterflies giraffe etc its pants
The decoration is super naff. But then so is the building.
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Old 19-06-2016, 19:29
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Glad I dont have to use the pissoir
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