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sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 10 9:37 am Post subject: New River Cottage..
Starts tomorrow (Thursday 23rd Spetember) at 8.00pm on Channel 4. Mrs Colon and I will be giving it a go.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 10 9:38 am Post subject:
Thanks for the heads up, he can get a bit staged and preachy, but HFW is pretty good value for money>

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 10 9:40 am Post subject:
I know what you mean, Bore but we do like him. He's defo someone I'd have round my dinner table.

12Bore

Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 9089
Location: Paddling in the Mersey

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 10 9:56 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

I know what you mean, Bore but we do like him.

He's defo someone I'd have round my dinner table.

I'd even let him do the cooking

sean
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 42207
Location: North Devon

Posted: Wed Sep 22, 10 10:17 am Post subject:
I don't rate his cookery/recipes that highly. Some of his writing about food is really good though I think he could do with a more ruthless editor.

bernie-woman

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 7824
Location: shropshire

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 7:51 am Post subject:
We are looking forward to it - makes non-challenging viewing on the whole - we wouldn't have done half the things that we have done without his inspiration at the beginning and his and compassion for world farmings work to get free range chicken talked about is and was v good

Brownbear

Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 14929
Location: South West

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 7:58 am Post subject:
We'll be watching. It's getting a bit samey now but his enthusiasm is infectious and he's an agreeable enough cove. It is mostly a lifestyle show but you do get some good tips here and there.

sgt.colon

Joined: 27 Jul 2009
Posts: 7380
Location: Just south of north.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 9:09 am Post subject:
I think we like it because it's the type of lifestyle we'd like to have and also like you say BB, his enthusiasm is infectious.

Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 10:02 am Post subject:
He's using up air time that would otherwise be Big Brother, or Hollyoaks, or a documentary about a girl with two bottoms, or something. For that, and many other reasons, he's hard to disagree with.

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
Posts: 45432
Location: Essex

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 10:06 am Post subject:

Nick wrote:

a girl with two bottoms

Interesting...

Mrs R

Joined: 15 Aug 2008
Posts: 7202

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 6:15 pm Post subject:
or, The Boy with an Arse for a Face

gardening-girl

Joined: 25 Feb 2009
Posts: 6024
Location: Somerset.

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 9:15 pm Post subject:
The first bit was filmed in our local butchers shop(where we joint up our pigs).BTL was filmed eating the liver,but they cut him out. His career in tv is doomed from the start!

Gervase

Joined: 17 Nov 2004
Posts: 8655

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 9:26 pm Post subject:
Ah. Managed comprehensively to miss that programme. But, from previous experience of HFW's diminishing returns, I'll guess that it was probably a bit like a cheap Chinese takeaway; an hour later, apart from a slightly odd taste in the mouth, you wondered what it was all about.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35056
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 9:31 pm Post subject:
It was alright. Can't say much else without sounding smug though, so I won't

Bernie66

Joined: 14 Jan 2005
Posts: 13967
Location: Eastoft

Posted: Thu Sep 23, 10 9:32 pm Post subject:

Gervase wrote:

Ah. Managed comprehensively to miss that programme. But, from previous experience of HFW's diminishing returns, I'll guess that it was probably a bit like a cheap Chinese takeaway; an hour later, apart from a slightly odd taste in the mouth, you wondered what it was all about.

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/river-cottage-every-day/4od#3123409

Torture yourself if insomnia sets in

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