Apologies to regular readers for showing the following video again. But it cracks me up. I wish gardening programmes were not so serious and middle class. If I presented a gardening programme it would have lots of jokes and comedy sketches.
Any way going off the video I think Rab gets his garden makeover ideas from looking st my blog. Do you think so?
Have you any garden projects for next year? Maybe a pool/bath for "Govan fish? Or "Single parents fish?"😃
You never see the crack of Monty Don's arse when he leans over. He never has a widdle round the back of the shed and he never shouts, "Oh shit!" when something goes wrong. Same for all the other gardening presenters. So bloody nice!
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ReplyDeleteI will try again. Dear Mr and Mrs Free View. Please can you add some Anglo-Saxon derived words to the gardening presenters monologue. We don't call it fym over here either! Many thanks and yuletide felicitations to you and yours.
ReplyDeleteDave you can't ask what our next garden project, if I suggested anything hubby would bury me under on of our new raised beds. He's hopi g to have next year project free, Marlene, Poppypatchwork
ReplyDeleteI still think you should get half an allotment or buy or rent a piece of land Marlene. I want another polytunnel and eventually a little jouse and garden in the Algarve. We can all dream.
DeleteA small polytunnel would be heaven with a couple of chick's, Marlene, poppypatchwork
DeleteEven on a rainy day you can still potter about. Have you seen the First Tunnels website?
DeleteFor some strange reason the video subtitles just gave up and died.
ReplyDeleteDo you wear a string vest like that when gardening, Dave?
I need subtitles to understand Rab at times JayCee. I wear no vest in summer and show off my beer belly. It's cost much more than any gym membership. Mike Harding said God gave us belly buttons so we can peel potatoes in bed.
ReplyDeleteI don't think class questions about presesnters comes into watching television gardening programmes, When you're sitting there do you wish Monty Don was some different class or one of the girls was from a different background? I used to watch Percy Thrower and it was just good to see gardening and that was it. He was my favourite tv gardener.
ReplyDeleteI think there is a middle class BBC presumption that we all have gardens Rachel. Chelsea Flower Show is very up market. But most tv gardeners are laid back like Monty. Carol Klein, Percy Thrower, Geoffrey Smith and Geoff Hamilton. Francis Tophill is lovely and she often features allotments. My favourite gardening programme was the Channel 4 "All Muck And Magic" series back in the eighties presented by Sophie Grigson and Bob Flowerdew. He grew potatoes in tyres and he he had a cobra like hair cut. I like down to earth people like yourself and me Rachel. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteI think it can be over thought. Keep it simple and enjoy. If there were too many thoughts there'd be no gardening programmes at all.
DeleteA lot of the gardening programmes can be predictable and a bit boring at times Rachel. It always makes me laugh that they don't show any gardening programmes again until March. There is always something to be done in the garden, allotment, smallholding or reading and writing about them on a blog or book or even filming a You Tube video. Thanks for your thoughts Rachel.
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