"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 25/4/07 20:10, in article ,
"Klara"
wrote:

In message , Sacha
writes
Christine Walkden came here today with a BBC Countryfile crew to shoot
some
footage for a new series to start showing in August.
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And one thing impressed me
very much - as the crew was packing up and leaving, she came to the door
and
asked someone to find me so that she could say goodbye and thank you
personally. An awful lots of people, let alone well known ones, don't
bother with small courtesies like that and attention to them reveals a
lot
about a person, IME and IMO.

I couldn't have imagined her any other way ... but isn't it a sad
comment on today that you actually notice that people say thank you,
because so many don't?

It is, isn't it? We'd given them coffee & cake etc. but done no more than
anyone would but I've met enough celebs, high profile and half way, to
know
that they can take all that for granted. I thought very highly of her for
making a personal farewell and thank you. She was just so 'unfussy' and
as
I think this group has thought of her, genuine about her love of plants.
We
were very glad to see that she was doing straightforward gardening
presenting, too and just being herself! I hope there's a LOT more of that
in the pipeline for her.

So do I, because the Christine and Reg "banter" drives me nuts, I can't
watch. Last week when they were doing the onions etc for the show was
particularly excruciating. I'll watch the new series though, and look out
for Sacha and Ray. Although my limited experience of TV tells me we'll not
have to blink.

How's Ray's hand after the dog bite BTW?

Steve