BBC TV: The Repair Shop

the CofS call it a "Communion Table".

Mary Berry ?

Car heaters etx. used to be sold as extras as they suffered a lower tax rat e ( Cars had a 'Luxury Tax on them ). ISTR one cost £15 on a mini

Can we phone in and vote for anything?

Have they run out of money for repeating railway journeys with Mr Portillo ?.

I don't mind as it isn't a programme I regularly saw - so most are "new" to me.

Bloody annoying when somewhere he features is where you have recently visited, Missus ",Oh we didn't see that , I would like to have done that". Yes , Dear we went on a short visit for a couple of days, he has a research team* that finds out about the region and arranges everything before he goes, and not all those places are just around the corner and not all just open up as easily as it appears on the telly.

• I actually went to a talk given by him recently and he mentioned his team. It's only small but they are almost all in their early twenties either on their way to ,in the middle of or recently left University, quite interesting work I would think.

G.Harman

When he visits somewhere I know it is quite amusing when he walks around a corner and appears somewhere miles away. I wish someone would have a word with him about how he walks ...

We like the programme nonetheless.