Country House Rescue
Wed, 07/01/2009 - 00:00 by chrisns
Last night, while waiting for what's turned out to be an unexpectedly brilliant and rather charming 'Celebrity Big Brother', we found ourselves watching C4's 'Country House Rescue'. Now, we're a bit late to this, since the series has nearly finished. And it may already be a 'Come Dine With Me'-style cult. But twenty hours after, we're still thinking about it.

And we're thinking about it because one man chose this rather pedestrian expert-turns-up-and-tells-you-how-shit-you-are-at-stuff type programme to announce to his wife that they should probably divorce!

 

The poor woman's eyes nearly popped out of her head. Especially as she thought they were gathered before the Jimmy Saville-like Ruth Watson to be told what sort of curtains they should hang from the dilapidated Victorian manor in Ayrshire, that they'd bought together because they thought it might be 'fun'.

 

He seemed a bit of an odd fella, to be honest. Preferring to spend all night driving up and down in a tractor instead of sleeping in a mansion then walking about the frankly stunning scenery, with his lovely missus, earning shedloads from the bird watchers and landscape photographers who'd be happy to stay at the house if only he'd do a bit of work on the plumbing and remove the dead cow from the outhouse.

 

The show made us want to move to Scotland, they're hiding some fantastic countryside up there. But it also made us ponder what might be the most inappropriate TV shows in which to demand a divorce. We're thinking 'Children In Need'…

 

by Tim