I'm happy to have Monty back as I prefer his style of delivering a programme, but Rachel, NO THANK YOU, she is not pleasing to the eye or ears. Shall miss Alys though, we have watched her grow up into her position as tv presenter and she knows her stuff!!
Carol klein should be top man ! .....and there was once a wonderful, wonderful man by the name of Bob Flowerdew. But yes we love Monty too and wish him good luck for the new series .
Give us a programme with them on at Greenacre and let those that like MD have GW. Put it on whenever you like BBC I will record it and watch it instead of GW. Take some finance from the truly boring cookery programmes - there are too many and several very bad ones. I am sure that there are many quiet gardeners out there keeping fit in their gardens, growing healthy food.They might not be as verbal as your cookery observers but they also deserve some service for their licence fee.
I got up very early to watch the eclipse over the frozen white garden. It was wonderful to watch. Not quite so wonderful is watching MD eclipse Toby and Alys. However as I am sure the moon will return(quite soon!) I hope that the BBC will return to see sense and give us Toby back - even on another programme perhaps? Until then I will look at my garden and gaze at the sky - so much more interesting than MD.I will NOT be watching him that's for sure. Oh and for those of you who missed it, it was a superb eclipse - beautiful red, gold light spilling across the heavy frost over the weird frozen shapes that were plants. Bit cold though at -10.
I'm so sorry to hear that Toby's not coming back to GW. He presented the show in such watchable and accessible way. You really got a sense of an immense amount of horticultural experience coming through with his very practical and down-to-earth tips. I think the show had something for everyone. The site at Greenacre was great for the millions of people who live in new builds, yet the ideas were suitable for those with established plots who want to try something new. And Carol's garden provided advice to those with mature gardens. Surely, there's space in the schedule for another show presented by Toby?
And again rather than let the majority decide, and therefore increase the raitngs, someone made a decision that like it or lump it it will just happen. Well, I will lump it. 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. Monty was OK in his day, but this is it, he's HAD his day. He had to leave for ill health. It is asking for trouble to resume a job that you couldn't cope with!!!. I love Carol, Alys, and although Joe is not my 'thing', he's better than the hollow Rachel. Shes so false it makes me cringe. Best wishes Toby and Alys, hope Monty gets his just desserts.
Talk about prejudiced, you know, we wouldn’t dream of saying, ‘oh no, not a woman’, or ‘they’re too black’, or ‘too gay’, or ‘too disabled’, or ‘too short’ to be a ‘real’ gardener (whatever the hell is real anyhow), in fact of you did you’d probably be breaking the terms of using this site! So can people just give over slagging someone off simply because they’re deemed ‘too posh’. The fact that someone may have a different social background to yours is no basis for dismissing them – whether they’re ‘posh’ or ‘common’ or whatever other prejudiced epithet you’d care to label them with, not that anyone would conceive of saying so-and-so’s “far too poor to present this programme”. IF someone is genuinely incapable or incompetent in their role, then criticise them on those grounds (though I seriously doubt wearing gloves qualifies you as either of them, it seems sensible to me if she really is so pre-occupied with roses)! I for one actually welcome listening to someone who isn’t on TV simply because they happen to have some exaggerated regional accent, with little else to recommend them. I like listening to someone who speaks clearly. I’m fed up of wall to wall poorly spoken and pronounced English, and if there’s room enough for that on TV, and there is, then there’s room for a bit of so-called ‘posh’ too, it’s no more or less worthy. P.S. I’m glad Monty is back, anyone who can carry off wearing chunky corduroy can’t be all bad. P.P.S. as the second most popular past-time on here to slagging people off because they speak ‘posh’, is slagging them off because they are supposedly representative of someone’s perceived stereotype of an age or class, I may as well say I’m 39, not 93, and at best lower middle class – if you can be lower middle class in rented accommodation?!
This whole thing about posh, common, well spoken etc is quite ridiculous. I like accents - better than the ubiquitous estuary English. Ir has nothing to do with gardening. All I know is that I want Toby back, even if he had to put on a fake regional accent. I trust his advice and respect his depth of knowledge. I like chunky cord - great for bags but stupid in the garden as real gardeners get muddy (Geoffrey Smith said so - now there was a good accent) and are awful to wash.
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.....and there was once a wonderful, wonderful man by the name of Bob Flowerdew. But yes we love Monty too and wish him good luck for the new series .
Awful presenter, hopeless gardener.
Why? Toby was so very good, and Don was so very bad.
Give us a programme with them on at Greenacre and let those that like MD have GW. Put it on whenever you like BBC I will record it and watch it instead of GW. Take some finance from the truly boring cookery programmes - there are too many and several very bad ones. I am sure that there are many quiet gardeners out there keeping fit in their gardens, growing healthy food.They might not be as verbal as your cookery observers but they also deserve some service for their licence fee.
Well, I will lump it. 2 steps forward and 3 steps back. Monty was OK in his day, but this is it, he's HAD his day. He had to leave for ill health. It is asking for trouble to resume a job that you couldn't cope with!!!.
I love Carol, Alys, and although Joe is not my 'thing', he's better than the hollow Rachel. Shes so false it makes me cringe. Best wishes Toby and Alys, hope Monty gets his just desserts.
So can people just give over slagging someone off simply because they’re deemed ‘too posh’. The fact that someone may have a different social background to yours is no basis for dismissing them – whether they’re ‘posh’ or ‘common’ or whatever other prejudiced epithet you’d care to label them with, not that anyone would conceive of saying so-and-so’s “far too poor to present this programme”.
IF someone is genuinely incapable or incompetent in their role, then criticise them on those grounds (though I seriously doubt wearing gloves qualifies you as either of them, it seems sensible to me if she really is so pre-occupied with roses)!
I for one actually welcome listening to someone who isn’t on TV simply because they happen to have some exaggerated regional accent, with little else to recommend them. I like listening to someone who speaks clearly. I’m fed up of wall to wall poorly spoken and pronounced English, and if there’s room enough for that on TV, and there is, then there’s room for a bit of so-called ‘posh’ too, it’s no more or less worthy.
P.S. I’m glad Monty is back, anyone who can carry off wearing chunky corduroy can’t be all bad.
P.P.S. as the second most popular past-time on here to slagging people off because they speak ‘posh’, is slagging them off because they are supposedly representative of someone’s perceived stereotype of an age or class, I may as well say I’m 39, not 93, and at best lower middle class – if you can be lower middle class in rented accommodation?!
ACCENTIST!
This whole thing about posh, common, well spoken etc is quite ridiculous. I like accents - better than the ubiquitous estuary English. Ir has nothing to do with gardening.
All I know is that I want Toby back, even if he had to put on a fake regional accent. I trust his advice and respect his depth of knowledge.
I like chunky cord - great for bags but stupid in the garden as real gardeners get muddy (Geoffrey Smith said so - now there was a good accent) and are awful to wash.