Starting Monday, 6.30pm, BBC2 "The Repair Shop"
An antidote to throwaway culture, The Repair Shop shines a light on the wonderful treasures to be found in homes across the country.
Owain
I can't wait for "surgery on a cherished Victorian garden gnome"
snipped-for-privacy@gowanhill.com formulated on Saturday :
Funny time to put on that sort of programming..
The BBC are the mafia.
He is funny but never mind, getting back to the show. I bet its dumbed down beyond belief. Such programs often are. Brian
Lets hope it is not from the same mould as the "up-cycling" programme where stupid amounts of money are spent turning one sort of crap into another sort of crap.
Bob Minchin was thinking very hard :
+1 I wouldn't want any of the output in my home, even if I were given it.
I've just seen that the Repair Shop programme will be broadcast each weekday for 3 weeks - 15 episodes Fingers crossed for things of technical interest!
Thanks to the OP for heads up
"Brian Gaff" wrote in news:ob7spo$2nd$ snipped-for-privacy@news.albasani.net:
Is Davina McCall going to present it?
Did you see the " bench made for 4 chairs glued together" that looked exactly like 4 chairs stuck together and charged about £350 by the wood butcher who did it. UGH!
No doubt searchable on iPlayer.
Claire Balding.
mechanic wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@example1357.net:
Damn - I was hoping it would be Mel and Sue!!!
Bring back Raymond Baxter!
That would be a repair worth seeing. He's been dead 11 years.
I was in the room when cast iron bench ends were turned into... a bench.
I still haven't worked out if the valve based Murphy radio was gutted of the valves etc and replaced by Bluetooth reciever (murdering bastards). Or if the BT Rx was just added into it so it still worked as a valve radio, with added BT fuctionality, an acceptable upgrade.
But yes the money they get for these things is silly and that's from shops/dealers so an end punter will be paying even more. It is of course a bit of advertising for those shops on mainstream television...
Huge was thinking very hard :
:-)
They used to sell chairs joined together as they counted as pews and were exempt from purchase tax. When you got them home you just unscrewed them and arranged them round the dining table.
They should have sold the dining table as an altar.
Owain
Not clear why Christians have an altar as they don't seem to sacrifice anything any more.
Logical thought?
Owain
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