3 years in the house of Stupid.

[Weatherlawyer]

I don't know if the 7th episode of Restored to Glory is due for a repeat shortly but if it is and you don't get annoyed too easily by the habits of fools, this is worth watching as a complete opposite of last weeks episode.

After three years buying cookers and full sized snooker tables, the timetable for getting grants running out and no trades of any sort booked to give quotes, a panel of restoration experts gave their final summary of the problems:

The leaking roof had not been touched, no scaffolding had been erected and Mrs Stupid was still in denial. So she left the house while Mr Stupid was advised to sell up now.

What a total ****!

[Phil]

Shame the house was sold so cheaply - attracting the kind of people who should have bought a 3 bed semi with no work required.

[Weatherlawyer]

For those with more sense than to watch it, the programme is rather like the Design a Shed one on Channel 4; only the presenters use a panel of architects, accountants and designers or whatnot, to give advice. They bring them along on each visit and even take the house owners out to other sites for ideas and help.

But the Scottish are notoriously keen on not spending money and this couple went to ridiculous lengths. The house was shot with dry rot and the roof leaked badly. (1000 very good reasons for its price.)

How many people I wonder with =A360 000 (was it?) left to spend, would spend the best part of the next three years stepping around brand new fridges, over rolls of carpet and across holes they'd dug in the floor, to empty and replace buckets?

In Scotland of all places?

Nice little comment from one expert as they arrive for the final time: "This is a long way to come to see no improvement."

There was a nastier one from the same experts earlier: "There isn't a hope in hell of preserving the original plasterwork while it is in their hands." (They pulled a wall down to reveal examples of William Morris style interior decorations. The coving and etc was all original and looked intact until.....)