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Gardening on telly
The few threads on here discussing the compared merits of various
possible presenters for Gardeners' World have set my mind awander... Gardening programmes on telly used to be educational, now television executives tend to put a higher premium on entertainment. And like it or not, gardening, or at least the appearance of it, tends to attract the punters. And, unashamedly, I am one of them. Bearing in mind that the education on how to propagate, prune etc. can be got on line, from experts and keen amateurs here or in books, what is so wrong with providing entertainment to the masses through gardening programmes? I am quite a consumer of gardening and cookery programmes - mostly for entertainment, though both give me ideas I often pursue (cookery programmes more so than gardening ones, by the way). I am a keen cook, and I am a fair weather gardener. And I love to be entertained by a quality TV programme. Say what you like about the shortcomings of the early series of Ground Force (I hear the rumbles of "Anathema!!" building up amid the ranks of those in urg who for some unexplainable reason do not believe in instant gardens), the chemistry between the protagonists and their individual personalities made for good telly watching. Gardeners' World has always entertained me, because it was always well produced, and again because of the personalities of the various presenters (some good, some that I like less) - though I have not watched too many of the more recent series - I tend to watch re-runs on UK TV rather than real times series on the Beeb, generally broadcast at times I am not watching. Home Front in the garden was also good in the early days - though both Llewelyn Bowen and Gavin have become fully paid up members of the prima donna prat brigade since then. I loved the series done about "A Year in Kew" - presented by Mr Tit himself, but good television to me. And while I'm in confession mode, I admit it - for all his over exposure, I still really like to watch a gardening or nature programme presented by Alan Titchmarsh. I used to love Helen Dillon on RTE, though haven't seen her in ages. However, some of the very worse programmes used to fill up broadcasting hours on such channels as UK TV Garden have to be among the most bloody awful formats - like Garden ER (gasp!), Garden Rivals (yuck!), Weed and Reap (I kid you not - this is a half way house between house selling and gardening), Garden Invaders (yawnnn!) etc. Anyway, I like Telly Gardening as entertainment if it is well done, even if it is not remotely educational, and I need to come back here to ask how to graft my leeks*. Cat(h) |
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"Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary |
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On May 27, 9:02 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Nor me Mary, where is your grandson in France? Judith |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message ... On May 27, 9:02 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Nor me Mary, where is your grandson in France? At the moment he's not, he's in USA, waiting for his African girl friend to get a visa to England. His parents (our daughter) live about half an hour south of Limoges. We've not been. Mary |
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On May 27, 9:33 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Judith in France" wrote in ... On May 27, 9:02 pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Nor me Mary, where is your grandson in France? At the moment he's not, he's in USA, waiting for his African girl friend to get a visa to England. His parents (our daughter) live about half an hour south of Limoges. We've not been. Mary Your daughter is not far from me then Mary, any thoughts of coming to visit her? Judith |
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"Judith in France" wrote in message ... Your daughter is not far from me then Mary, any thoughts of coming to visit her? Judith We haven't been invited ... we weren't told that they were leaving Leeds. In 1998 I was diagnosed with and had surgery and other treatment for breast cancer. It's not uncommon, sadly, for friends and even close family members to cut one off when that happens. Inexplicable but true :-( Even my mother did ... That daughter's daughter is living with us at present while she completes a college course in Leeds. She had her 21st birthday recently, celebrating it in Cheltenham, her boy friend's home. Her parents went to Cheltenham and apparently came to Leeds to visit a brother but didn't come here ... We've stopped losing sleep about it, life might be too short for both of us (Spouse also has cancer) so we make the most of every day which brings rewards. Those which don't aren't counted. This really isn't the place to discuss such matters but I suspect that people who cut themselves off from close family and friends with cancer simply can't cope with it, they don't know what to say. Some of our other children at least *said* that they didn't know what to say or that they couldn't handle it, we were able to get over that. Silence is much more difficult. I think I'm saying that so that anyone reading this might understand that even a silent hug of someone with bad news means an awful lot, even if sympathy can't be expressed verbally. Life is very sweet, Mary |
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"Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Tree Leeks ??? * Derek http://www.groworganic.com/item_SNV9..._Carentan.html * did intend to write Bush but realised the double entendre just before hitting post |
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"Derek" wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message t... "Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Tree Leeks ??? * Birch sap wine? Mary Derek http://www.groworganic.com/item_SNV9..._Carentan.html * did intend to write Bush but realised the double entendre just before hitting post |
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On May 28, 12:07*pm, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:51:19 +0100, "Mary Fisher" wrote: "Derek" wrote in message ... "Mary Fisher" wrote in message . net... "Cat(h)" wrote in message .... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Tree Leeks ??? * Birch sap wine? Latex? -- Is this a further example of thread drift, and are we getting kinky? Cat(h) |
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On May 27, 9:02*pm, "Mary Fisher" wrote:
"Cat(h)" wrote in message ... Love your post, Cath, although I have no idea what you're talking about (no telly but ***** to Mr Tit)! Thanks... I think? What's this, though, about grafting leeks? I've sown leeks for the first time ever because a grandson has grown them in France and waxed lyrical about their form as they grew (he's an artist). Never heard of grafting them though ... Mary Sorry, that's a silly joke. My father used to be a keen gardener, and one year he grew massive leeks. A particularly annoying and silly neighbour was oohing and aahing about them, and he just told her that he had grafted them, deadpan. She spread the news throughout the neighbourhood... giving a lot of people a giggle or two. I guess you had to be there :-) Cat(h) |
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