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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I record it so I don't miss any.   Love to see the things they can do with broken bits and bobs.  Clever people.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've never managed to see it but sounds just my thing. I'm forever either scavenging (much to OH's embarrassment) making do or mending something.
     My RTBC today was lunch with a friend, followed by an impulse purchase of a 6 pack of mixed cyclamen going cheap and two glasses of cold white wine tonight.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Hostafan1 said:
    "The Repair Shop" on BBC2
    I thought you’d enjoy it 😍

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I love The Repair Shop.  The skills of these people are amazing.  Will only looks about 12 (to me at least, at my great age) :D
  • KT53 said:
    I love The Repair Shop.  The skills of these people are amazing.  Will only looks about 12 (to me at least, at my great age) :D
    Apparently he's in his 30s!!! He must have one of those paintings in the attic  ;)

    https://www.londonmet.ac.uk/news/articles/furniture-restoration-graduate-star-of-bbcs-the-repair-shop-/

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494

    Nice article @Dovefromabove. I really must watch the programme soon.

    I'm pleased today because I finally got to the school garden I look after and planted a shoeboxful of last year's tulips bulbs. No idea if they'll come back up, but it will look good if they do. Only problem was I kept digging up bulbs I'd planted in the same place before! The cherry tree I planted was in blossom as well!

    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I like the Repair Shop, but I wish they'd edit out most of the "Wow!"s and "amazing!"s.  They get a bit monotonous.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    josusa47 said:
    I like the Repair Shop, but I wish they'd edit out most of the "Wow!"s and "amazing!"s.  They get a bit monotonous.
    I wish everything was edited to remove "amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing" Zoe Ball, Jamie Oliver , George Clarke, EVERYONE on X factor when I last watched it : all other superlatives have clearly been banned.
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Cook, taste, ecstatic gurn to camera say: 'So good!' . 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Forgot to mention Spring / summer/ autumn watch . Between Chris and Michella , we once had "amazing" 5 times in less than 30 seconds when talking about pine martens.
     
    Devon.
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